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Berliet had been a French manufacturer involving automobiles, buses, trucks and military autos among other vehicles located in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from some sort of five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it absolutely was put into 'administration sequestre' ıt had been in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 in addition to merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks company in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his / her experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars have been followed in 1900 with a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over your plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by a honeycomb radiator and metallic chassis frame was used as opposed to 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 towards the American Locomotive Company.

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Just before World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 CONTINUE to 60 CV. The main models experienced four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc style (12 CV) was produced between 1910 along with 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders merely.The First World War concluded in a massive increase popular. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment in production plant and manufacturing plant space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was obtained 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 entry at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 lot Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the actual French army. During 1916 40 advisors were leaving the plant every day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks currently. The number of staff employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover had multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new legal structure was deemed suitable. The company became this Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back for you to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess ability, as the army was no longer buying all the pickup trucks the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards the outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single form of truck and a single sort of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war market strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was the particular 5 ton CBA that had served the media so well during the war.

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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand in the 15th Paris Motor Indicate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Kind VB" of modern visual appeal. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a trick: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to making a new car for the brand new decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet replicate was well received in March 1919 when it had its first community outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and the simple disc wheels had been large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the buying price of just 11, 800 francs in April 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure the steel used within the car's construction was with the same quality as the United states steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems with the early customers of the "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational damage to the company.

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The factory were being set up to produce the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have been recently an ambitious target underneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off widely used for what at this time was the manufacturer's solely passenger car model that followed the coffee quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty five million francs recorded in one year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was put in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% from the share capital, but was unable to settle all the company's creditors and the firm therefore fell into your hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless capable to retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 years, supported by a sustained recovery sought after that in turn reflected a simple yet effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to settle his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control on the business from the financial institutions.

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