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Berliet has been a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military vehicles among other vehicles based in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a new five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when ıt had been put into 'administration sequestre' ıt had been in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired simply by Renault in 1974 along with merged with Saviem right into a new Renault Trucks corporation in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles within 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over your plant of Audibert & Lavirotte inside Lyon. Berliet started to create four-cylinder automobiles featured by 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 permit for manufacturing his model on the American Locomotive Company.

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Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a selection of models from 8 RESUME to 60 CV. The main models had 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) had been produced between 1910 as well as 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were built upon individual orders solely.The First World War led to a massive increase successful. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for this French army. The military orders placed major demands on the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment inside production plant and manufacturing facility space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new major factory.The Berliet CBA grew to become the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 great deal Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by this French army. During 1916 40 of which were leaving the plant everyday. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also making shells and battle tanks presently. The number of staff employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover experienced multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new legitimate structure was deemed suitable. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Motor vehicles Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented a part of its production back to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess volume, as the army was don't buying all the pickup trucks the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded to the outbreak of peace by deciding to make just a single form of truck and a single form of car, which represented a starting from his pre-war marketplace strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was your 5 ton CBA that had served the united states so well during the particular war.

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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand for the 15th Paris Motor Display in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Kind VB" of modern physical appearance. Marius Berliet was it's unlikely that any to miss a key: rather than devote time period 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 duplicate was well received inside March 1919 when this had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Business Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and also the simple disc wheels ended up large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the cost of just 11, 800 francs in April 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make sure that the steel used inside the car's construction was with the same quality as the Us steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for that early customers of the "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational problems for the company.

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The factory were being set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars daily which would have also been an ambitious target below any circumstances. The rapid drop-off popular for what at this point was the manufacturer's only passenger car model that followed the standard issues plunged the company into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty five million francs recorded in one year. Survival was in skepticism, and Berliet was put into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% in the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors and also the firm therefore fell into the hands of the banking companies. Berliet was nevertheless competent to retain operational control. During the ensuring several years, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected a powerful model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to repay his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control above the business from the banking companies.

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