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Berliet has been a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military automobiles among other vehicles within Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from some sort of five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it was put into 'administration sequestre' it turned out in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired through 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 or her experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 with a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over your plant of Audibert & Lavirotte inside Lyon. Berliet started to develop four-cylinder automobiles featured with a honeycomb radiator and metallic chassis frame was used rather than 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 towards American Locomotive Company.

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Before World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 COMPREHENSIVE RESUME to 60 CV. The main models got four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder model of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc design (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 along with 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were built upon individual orders merely.The First World War resulted in a massive increase widely used. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the French army. The military orders placed major demands within the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturing area space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was bought between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new key 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 load Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the particular French army. During 1916 40 of these were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also making shells and battle tanks at this time. The number of staff employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the importance of annual turnover experienced multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new lawful structure was deemed appropriate. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Motor vehicles Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess capability, as the army was will no longer buying all the pickups the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single type of truck and a single form of car, which represented a leaving from his pre-war industry strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was the 5 ton CBA that had served the united states so well during the war.

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The passenger car to become produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand with the 15th Paris Motor Demonstrate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern appearance. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a trick: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to possessing a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and copied an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet replicate was well received with March 1919 when this had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Deal Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels ended up 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 make sure that the steel used from the car's construction was of the same quality as the American steel used for this Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for the early customers of the particular "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational harm to the company.

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The factory have been set up to produce the "Berliet Type VB" in the rate of 100 cars every day which would have also been an ambitious target beneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off successful for what at this point was the manufacturer's merely passenger car model that followed the coffee quality issues plunged the enterprise into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded in one year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was used in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% in the share capital, but was unable to pay off all the company's creditors along with the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the banking companies. Berliet was nevertheless able to retain operational control. During the ensuring several years, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected a powerful model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to repay his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control above the business from the banks.

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