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Berliet had been a French manufacturer regarding 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 absolutely was in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by simply Renault in 1974 in addition to merged with Saviem in a new Renault Trucks corporation in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started their experiments with automobiles within 1894. Some single-cylinder cars have been followed in 1900 by a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the actual plant of Audibert & Lavirotte throughout Lyon. Berliet started to develop four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and material chassis frame was used instead of wood. The next year, a model was launched which was 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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Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a selection of models from 8 CV to 60 CV. The main models had four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder model of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc style (12 CV) has been produced between 1910 and 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were built upon individual orders only.The First World War generated a massive increase popular. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the actual French army. The military orders placed major demands for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment within production plant and manufacturing facility space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA evolved into the iconic truck about the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle top 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 advisors were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks right now. The number of individuals employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the price of annual turnover acquired multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed correct. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented a part of its production back for you to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless discovered themselves with excess volume, as the army was don't buying all the pickups the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to make just a single style of truck and a single type of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war marketplace strategy. The single truck what is the best Berliet focused was your 5 ton CBA that had served the media so well during your 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 appearance. Marius Berliet was not just one to miss a strategy: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to developing a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and ripped an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet backup was well received inside March 1919 when it had its first community outing, locally, at the Lyon Industry 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 of just 11, 800 francs in April 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make sure that the steel used in the car's construction was on the same quality as the American steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of the particular "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational harm to the company.

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The factory were being set up to generate the "Berliet Type VB" in the rate of 100 cars daily which would have also been an ambitious target under any circumstances. The rapid drop-off successful for what at this point was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the enterprise into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty five million francs recorded in one year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was placed in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% from the share capital, but was unable to pay off all the company's creditors and the firm therefore fell into your 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 highly effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to repay his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control within the business from the banking institutions.

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