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Berliet has been a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military vehicles among other vehicles situated in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from any five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when ıt had been put into 'administration sequestre' it turned out in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by means of Renault in 1974 and merged with Saviem right into a new Renault Trucks corporation in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started the experiments with automobiles throughout 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by way of a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the particular plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by a honeycomb radiator and steel chassis frame was used rather then wood. The next year, a model was launched that has been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the permit for manufacturing his model to the American Locomotive Company.

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Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 CURRICULUM VITAE to 60 CV. The main models had 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 as well as 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were created upon individual orders only.The First World War triggered a massive increase sought after. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the actual French army. The military orders placed major demands within the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturing plant space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new primary factory.The Berliet CBA started to be the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entry at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 ton Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by your French army. During 1916 40 of which were leaving the plant everyday. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also generating shells and battle tanks at this time. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new legitimate structure was deemed correct. The company became the Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.Following your war the manufacturer reoriented part of its production back to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess ability, 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 make just a single style of truck and a single form of car, which represented a departure from his pre-war industry strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was the particular 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during the actual war.

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The passenger car to become produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand in the 15th Paris Motor Indicate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern physical appearance. Marius Berliet was it's unlikely that any to miss a technique: rather than devote time and engineering talent to possessing a new car for the new decade, he obtained and replicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet replicate was well received in March 1919 when this had its first general public outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price of just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make sure that the steel used inside car's construction was from the same quality as the North american steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for the early customers of your "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational injury to the company.

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The factory ended up set up to produce the "Berliet Type VB" on the rate of 100 cars each day which would have been an ambitious target underneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off in demand for what at this stage was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the standard issues plunged the organization into financial difficulties, with losses of second there’s 55 million francs recorded in one year. Survival was in uncertainty, and Berliet was slipped into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% in the share capital, but was unable to settle all the company's creditors along with the firm therefore fell to the hands of the finance institutions. Berliet was nevertheless able to retain operational control. During the ensuring few years, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able in order to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control on the business from the banking institutions.

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