Berliet had been a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military vehicles 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' it was in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired through Renault in 1974 and merged with Saviem in a new Renault Trucks firm in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were followed in 1900 with a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the actual plant of Audibert & Lavirotte inside Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of a honeycomb radiator and material 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 driving licence for manufacturing his model towards American Locomotive Company.
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Before World War I, Berliet offered a range of models from 8 RESUME to 60 CV. The main models had four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc model (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 and also 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders simply.The First World War concluded in a massive increase sought after. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands about the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment with production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a 600 hectare site was bought between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA grew to become the iconic truck within the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entrance at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 great deal Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the actual 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 presently. The number of employees employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the worth of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed ideal. The company became the Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented part of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless discovered themselves with excess capacity, as the army was no more buying all the trucks the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded on the outbreak of peace by deciding to generate just a single type of truck and a single kind of car, which represented a leaving from his pre-war market strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was the particular 5 ton CBA that had served the country so well during the particular war.
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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand at the 15th Paris Motor Display in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Type VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a strategy: rather than devote moment and engineering talent to making a new car for the new decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet replicate was well received within March 1919 when that had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high along with the simple disc wheels were being large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the buying price of just 11, 800 francs in July 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make sure that the steel used in the car's construction was of the same quality as the American steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of the actual "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational injury to the company.
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The factory ended up set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" with the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have already been an ambitious target under any circumstances. The rapid drop-off popular for what at this point was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the coffee quality issues plunged the organization into financial difficulties, with losses of second there’s 55 million francs recorded available as one year. Survival was in skepticism, and Berliet was placed in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% with the share capital, but was unable to pay off all the company's creditors and also the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the banking institutions. Berliet was nevertheless competent to retain operational control. During the ensuring ten years, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control above the business from the banks.
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