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Berliet has been a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles based in 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 absolutely was in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by simply Renault in 1974 and also merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks business in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles in 1894. Some single-cylinder cars have been followed in 1900 by way of a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to create four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and metal chassis frame was used rather then wood. The next year, a model was launched which was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the permit for manufacturing his model on the American Locomotive Company.

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Just before World War I, Berliet offered a array of models from 8 CV to 60 CV. The main models received 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) ended up being produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were created upon individual orders just.The First World War led to a massive increase successful. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for your French army. The military orders placed major demands for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment with production plant and manufacturing plant space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was purchased between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new key factory.The Berliet CBA evolved into 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 on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also generating shells and battle tanks at the moment. The number of employees employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover got multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed suitable. The company became your Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.Following the war the manufacturer reoriented portion of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess volume, as the army was no more buying all the pickup trucks the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded to the outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single sort of truck and a single kind of car, which represented a leaving from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck what is the best Berliet focused was the 5 ton CBA that had served the world so well during the particular war.

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The passenger car to be produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand with the 15th Paris Motor Demonstrate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Kind VB" of modern look. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a key: rather than devote moment and engineering talent to possessing a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet content was well received with March 1919 when it had its first general public outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and also the simple disc wheels had been large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price of just 11, 800 francs in July 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure the steel used from the car's construction was in the same quality as the United states steel used for the 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 develop the "Berliet Type VB" in the rate of 100 cars every day which would have also been an ambitious target below any circumstances. The rapid drop-off successful for what at this point was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the product quality issues plunged the small business into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was slipped into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% in the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors plus the firm therefore fell into your hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless able to retain operational control. During the ensuring few years, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected an effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to repay his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control over the business from the banking companies.

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