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Berliet has been a French manufacturer regarding automobiles, buses, trucks and military autos among other vehicles based in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from any five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it absolutely was 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 also merged with Saviem right into a new Renault Trucks business in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started their experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were followed in 1900 with a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the actual plant of Audibert & Lavirotte within Lyon. Berliet started to develop four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and material chassis frame was used instead of wood. The next year, a model was launched that has been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driver's licence for manufacturing his model on the American Locomotive Company.

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Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a selection of models from 8 CV to 60 CV. The main models acquired four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc product (12 CV) had been produced between 1910 as well as 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were created upon individual orders just.The First World War concluded in a massive increase successful. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for this French army. The military orders placed major demands about the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment within production plant and manufacturing area space.In 1915 a 600 hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new primary factory.The Berliet CBA grew to be the iconic truck around the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle top at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 heap Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by your French army. During 1916 40 ones were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also creating shells and battle tanks presently. The number of individuals employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover got multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new legitimate structure was deemed suitable. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back for you to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess volume, as the army was don't buying all the vehicles the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to produce just a single style of truck and a single type of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war market strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was the 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during the actual war.

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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand on the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Type VB" of modern physical appearance. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a strategy: rather than devote period and engineering talent to having a new car for the brand new decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet content was well received with March 1919 when that had its first open outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price tag on just 11, 800 francs in April 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make certain the steel used inside car's construction was in the same quality as the American steel used for the particular Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for that early customers of the "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational harm to the company.

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The factory was set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars per day which would have already been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off popular for what at this time was the manufacturer's simply passenger car model that followed the coffee quality issues plunged the enterprise into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty five million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in uncertainty, and Berliet was slipped into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% with the share capital, but was unable to settle all the company's creditors along with the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless in a position to retain operational control. During the ensuring few years, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected an effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to repay his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control within the business from the banking companies.

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