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Berliet has been a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military 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 was put into 'administration sequestre' it had been in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 and 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 throughout 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte throughout Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and material chassis frame was used as an alternative to wood. The next year, a model was launched which was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driving licence for manufacturing his model on the American Locomotive Company.

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Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 RESUME 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 product (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 along with 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were manufactured upon individual orders solely.The First World War generated a massive increase popular. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the French army. The military orders placed major demands around the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment within production plant and factory space.In 1915 a 600 hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest in order to build a new major factory.The Berliet CBA grew to become the iconic truck within 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 your French army. During 1916 40 advisors were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also generating shells and battle tanks currently. The number of workers employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the worth of annual turnover got multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new lawful structure was deemed appropriate. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.Following the war the manufacturer reoriented portion of its production back to help passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess capability, as the army was no more buying all the pickups the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded to the outbreak of peace by deciding to make just a single form of truck and a single style of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was your 5 ton CBA that had served the media so well during your war.

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The passenger car for being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand at the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Sort VB" of modern look. Marius Berliet was it's unlikely that any to miss a trick: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to having a new car for the newest decade, he obtained and replicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet content was well received inside March 1919 when the item had its first community outing, locally, at the Lyon Buy and sell Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high plus the simple disc wheels were large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the expense of just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure that the steel used within the car's construction was in the same quality as the United states steel used for the particular Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for that early customers of this "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational problems for the company.

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The factory ended up set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars every day which would have also been an ambitious target underneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off widely used for what at this time was the manufacturer's only passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the small business into financial difficulties, with losses of second there’s 55 million francs recorded available as one year. Survival was in skepticism, and Berliet was placed in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% in the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors and also the firm therefore fell in the hands of the finance institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable to retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control above the business from the banking institutions.

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