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

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Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 CURRICULUM VITAE to 60 CV. The main models got four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc type (12 CV) seemed to be produced between 1910 and 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders simply.The First World War triggered a massive increase sought after. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands about the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment inside production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a 300 hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new key factory.The Berliet CBA grew to become the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle top 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 advisors were leaving the plant each day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also creating shells and battle tanks right now. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover had multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed ideal. The company became your Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless discovered themselves with excess volume, as the army was no more buying all the vans the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards the outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single type of truck and a single form of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war market strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was your 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during the particular war.

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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand with the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern appearance. Marius Berliet was not one to miss a technique: rather than devote period and engineering talent to creating a new car for the new decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet duplicate was well received in March 1919 when that had its first public outing, locally, at the Lyon Deal Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high along with the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price tag on just 11, 800 francs in July 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed in order that the steel used inside the car's construction was in the same quality as the North american steel used for this Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of this "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational problems for the company.

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The factory were being set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars daily which would have also been an ambitious target under any circumstances. The rapid drop-off in demand for what at this time was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the coffee quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty five million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in question, and Berliet was slipped into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% with the share capital, but was unable to repay all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the banking companies. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring several years, supported by a sustained recovery sought after 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 above the business from the banking companies.

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