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Berliet was a French manufacturer involving automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars 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 absolutely was put into 'administration sequestre' it absolutely was in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 as well as merged with Saviem right into a new Renault Trucks firm in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by way of twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over this plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and metallic chassis frame was used as an alternative to wood. The next year, a model was launched that's similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the licence for manufacturing his model to the American Locomotive Company.

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Ahead of World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 RESUME to 60 CV. The main models got four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder model of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc type (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 and 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders just.The First World War resulted in a massive increase in demand. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for your French army. The military orders placed major demands within the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturing plant space.In 1915 a 600 hectare site was bought between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so that you can build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA evolved into the iconic truck within the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 lot Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by your French army. During 1916 40 of these were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also generating shells and battle tanks right now. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the importance of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new legal structure was deemed appropriate. The company became your Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.Following your war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess volume, as the army was no more buying all the vans the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards the outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single form of truck and a single form of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war industry strategy. The single truck on which Berliet focused was your 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during the particular war.

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The passenger car being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand on the 15th Paris Motor Demonstrate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern physical appearance. Marius Berliet was not just one to miss a strategy: rather than devote time and engineering talent to creating a new car for the modern decade, he obtained and ripped an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet replicate was well received within March 1919 when it had its first general public outing, locally, at the Lyon Deal Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high along with the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the buying price of just 11, 800 francs in April 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make sure that the steel used inside car's construction was in the same quality as the Us 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 ended up set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" on the rate of 100 cars per day which would have been recently an ambitious target within 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 business into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded in one year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was put into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% from the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors and also the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the finance institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable to retain operational control. During the ensuring several years, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected a simple yet effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to pay off his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control in the business from the banking companies.

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