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Berliet has been a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military motor vehicles among other vehicles operating out of 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' 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 along with 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 within 1894. Some single-cylinder cars had been followed in 1900 by way of a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over this plant of Audibert & Lavirotte inside Lyon. Berliet started to develop four-cylinder automobiles featured by a honeycomb radiator and steel chassis frame was used instead of wood. The next year, a model was launched that was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the 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 CV to 60 CV. The main models experienced four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc model (12 CV) was produced between 1910 and also 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were produced upon individual orders solely.The First World War concluded in a massive increase in demand. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the French army. The military orders placed major demands for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturing plant space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was bought between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA grew to become the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle the front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 heap Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the French army. During 1916 40 ones were leaving the plant every day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also making shells and battle tanks at this time. The number of workers employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed proper. The company became the Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented a part of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless observed themselves with excess capacity, as the army was no longer buying all the pickups the factory could generate, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to generate just a single type of truck and a single kind of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war marketplace strategy. The single truck on which Berliet focused was the particular 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during this war.

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The passenger car being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand in the 15th Paris Motor Display in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Variety VB" of modern physical appearance. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a key: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to having a new car for the brand new decade, he obtained and replicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet replicate was well received with March 1919 when it had its first general 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 an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the cost of just 11, 800 francs in October 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure that the steel used from the car's construction was on the same quality as the United states steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of the actual "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational damage to the company.

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The factory had been set up to generate the "Berliet Type VB" at the rate of 100 cars per day which would have recently been an ambitious target beneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off popular for what at this time was the manufacturer's solely passenger car model that followed the product quality issues plunged the company into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was slipped into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% with the share capital, but was unable to pay off all the company's creditors and also the firm therefore fell to the hands of the finance institutions. Berliet was nevertheless in a position to retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery in demand that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to settle his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control within the business from the banks.

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