Berliet was a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military motor vehicles among other vehicles situated in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from the five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it turned out put into 'administration sequestre' it was in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by means of Renault in 1974 in addition to merged with Saviem right into a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his / her experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars had been followed in 1900 by a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over this plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and metallic chassis frame was used instead of wood. The next year, a model was launched that's similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the permit for manufacturing his model towards the American Locomotive Company.
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Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a array of models from 8 COMPREHENSIVE RESUME to 60 CV. The main models experienced four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc product (12 CV) seemed to be produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were built upon individual orders solely.The First World War triggered a massive increase in demand. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands within the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment inside production plant and manufacturing facility space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new key factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 lot Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the actual French army. During 1916 40 of them were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks at the moment. The number of staff employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the price of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed appropriate. The company became the Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.Following the war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back for you to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess capacity, as the army was don't buying all the vehicles the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards the outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single style of truck and a single kind of car, which represented a leaving from his pre-war market strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was the actual 5 ton CBA that had served the media so well during this war.
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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand for the 15th Paris Motor Indicate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Variety VB" of modern visual appeal. Marius Berliet was not one to miss a strategy: rather than devote moment and engineering talent to making a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet copy was well received with March 1919 when the item had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Deal Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high plus the simple disc wheels were being large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the expense of just 11, 800 francs in October 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure that the steel used in the car's construction was on the same quality as the North american steel used for this Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of the "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational damage to the company.
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The factory ended up set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars every day which would have been recently an ambitious target beneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off successful for what at this time was the manufacturer's only passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded available as one year. Survival was in question, and Berliet was put into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% of the share capital, but was unable in order to all the company's creditors and the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring several years, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to repay his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control on the business from the banking institutions.
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