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Berliet seemed to be a French manufacturer regarding automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles based in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when ıt had been put into 'administration sequestre' it had been in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired simply by Renault in 1974 and merged with Saviem into a new Renault Trucks company in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his / her experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by the twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over this plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured with a honeycomb radiator and steel chassis frame was used as opposed to wood. The next year, a model was launched that's similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driver's licence for manufacturing his model to the American Locomotive Company.

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Ahead of World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 CONTINUE 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 type (12 CV) seemed to be produced between 1910 as well as 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were manufactured upon individual orders just.The First World War led to a massive increase sought after. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for this French army. The military orders placed major demands within the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and factory space.In 1915 a 600 hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new major factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck around 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 the actual French army. During 1916 40 advisors were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also generating shells and battle tanks presently. The number of employees employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed ideal. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented portion of its production back to help passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess capability, as the army was don't buying all the vans the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded to the outbreak of peace by deciding to produce just a single type of truck and a single form of car, which represented a departure from his pre-war industry strategy. The single truck on what Berliet focused was the actual 5 ton CBA that had served the world so well during the war.

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The passenger car for being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand for the 15th Paris Motor Show in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Type VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was it's unlikely that any to miss a trick: rather than devote period and engineering talent to developing a new car for the brand new decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet content was well received throughout March 1919 when it had its first public outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price tag on just 11, 800 francs in Oct 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure the steel used from the car's construction was on the same quality as the United states 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 were being set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" in the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have also been an ambitious target under any circumstances. The rapid drop-off popular for what at this stage was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the standard issues plunged the company into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in uncertainty, and Berliet was put into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% on the share capital, but was unable in order to all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell into the hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable to retain operational control. During the ensuring several years, supported by a sustained recovery sought after that in turn reflected an effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to repay his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control in the business from the finance institutions.

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