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Berliet had been a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military autos among other vehicles located in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a new five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it was put into 'administration sequestre' it was in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by simply Renault in 1974 and also merged with Saviem into a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars had been followed in 1900 by a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte throughout Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of a honeycomb radiator and metallic 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 license for manufacturing his model on the American Locomotive Company.

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Ahead of World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 COMPREHENSIVE RESUME to 60 CV. The main models received four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder model of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc style (12 CV) had been produced between 1910 as well as 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were built upon individual orders merely.The First World War concluded in a massive increase widely used. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturing facility space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new primary factory.The Berliet CBA started to be the iconic truck within the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 heap Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by this French army. During 1916 40 of them were leaving the plant everyday. 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 had multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed correct. The company became the Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented part of its production back to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless observed themselves with excess capability, as the army was no longer buying all the vans the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single sort of truck and a single form of car, which represented a starting from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was the actual 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 Sort VB" of modern look. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a trick: rather than devote period and engineering talent to developing a new car for the new decade, he obtained and replicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet replicate was well received within March 1919 when this had its first open outing, locally, at the Lyon Buy and sell Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and the simple disc wheels were large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price tag on just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure the steel used in the car's construction was in the same quality as the North american steel used for the Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for the early customers of the "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational problems for the company.

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The factory ended up set up to produce the "Berliet Type VB" on the rate of 100 cars per day which would have been recently an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off sought after for what at this stage was the manufacturer's solely passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty five million francs recorded available as one year. Survival was in question, and Berliet was used 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 banks. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring few years, supported by a sustained recovery sought after that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control on the business from the financial institutions.

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