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Berliet ended up being a French manufacturer regarding automobiles, buses, trucks and military vehicles among other vehicles located in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it had been put into 'administration sequestre' ıt had been in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by means of Renault in 1974 and also merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started their experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars had been followed in 1900 by a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over this plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to create four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of a honeycomb radiator and aluminum chassis frame was used instead of 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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Just before World War I, Berliet offered a selection of models from 8 RESUME to 60 CV. The main models received four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc model (12 CV) has been produced between 1910 and 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were manufactured upon individual orders simply.The First World War generated a massive increase in demand. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for your French army. The military orders placed major demands on the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment within production plant and factory space.In 1915 a 300 hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so that you can build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck about 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 this French army. During 1916 40 of them were leaving the plant every day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also generating shells and battle tanks at the moment. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the importance of annual turnover acquired multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new lawful structure was deemed ideal. The company became this Société anonyme des Autos Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented a part of its production back to help passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess potential, as the army was no longer buying all the pickups the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded to the outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single style of truck and a single form of car, which represented a starting from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck on which Berliet focused was the particular 5 ton CBA that had served the country so well during the war.

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The passenger car for being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand on the 15th Paris Motor Display in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Type VB" of modern visual appeal. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a key: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to possessing a new car for the new decade, he obtained and replicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet duplicate was well received with March 1919 when this had its first open outing, locally, at the Lyon Business Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and also the simple disc wheels were large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price tag on just 11, 800 francs in July 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure the steel used within the car's construction was on the same quality as the North american steel used for this Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for the early customers of your "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational destruction of the company.

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The factory ended up set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" in the rate of 100 cars per day which would have recently been an ambitious target underneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off popular for what at this time was the manufacturer's only passenger car model that followed the product quality issues plunged the company into financial difficulties, with losses of second there’s 55 million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in skepticism, and Berliet was slipped into 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 as well as the firm therefore fell in the hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless in a position to retain operational control. During the ensuring few years, supported by a sustained recovery sought after that in turn reflected a highly effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control within the business from the financial institutions.

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