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Berliet ended up being a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles situated in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from any five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it absolutely was put into 'administration sequestre' it turned out in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired simply by Renault in 1974 and also merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks firm in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles within 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by the twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the actual plant of Audibert & Lavirotte inside Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured with a honeycomb radiator and steel chassis frame was used rather than wood. The next year, a model was launched which was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the license for manufacturing his model on the American Locomotive Company.

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Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 COMPREHENSIVE RESUME to 60 CV. The main models had four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc style (12 CV) had been produced between 1910 and 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were manufactured upon individual orders just.The First World War resulted in a massive increase sought after. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for this French army. The military orders placed major demands around the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment inside production plant and manufacturing area space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new main factory.The Berliet CBA evolved into the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle top at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 ton Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the actual French army. During 1916 40 of these were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also creating shells and battle tanks currently. The number of staff employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover acquired multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new legal structure was deemed suitable. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess ability, as the army was no more buying all the trucks the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single style of truck and a single sort of car, which represented a starting from his pre-war market strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was the 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during your war.

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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand with the 15th Paris Motor Demonstrate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Kind VB" of modern look. Marius Berliet was not just one to miss a strategy: rather than devote period and engineering talent to developing a new car for the brand new decade, he obtained and copied an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet copy was well received with March 1919 when this had its first general public outing, locally, at the Lyon Business Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the cost of just 11, 800 francs in Oct 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make sure that the steel used within the car's construction was of the same quality as the North american steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for the early customers of this "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational damage to the company.

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The factory have been set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" on the rate of 100 cars daily which would have also been an ambitious target beneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off popular for what at this point was the manufacturer's simply passenger car model that followed the coffee quality issues plunged the company into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was used in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% in the share capital, but was unable to repay all the company's creditors and the firm therefore fell into the hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless competent to retain operational control. During the ensuring ten years, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected an effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to pay off his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control within the business from the financial institutions.

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