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Berliet has been a French manufacturer regarding automobiles, buses, trucks and military vehicles 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 ıt had been put into 'administration sequestre' it turned out in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by simply Renault in 1974 and also merged with Saviem right into a new Renault Trucks corporation in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started the experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by the twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte inside Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and metal chassis frame was used as opposed to wood. The next year, a model was launched that has been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driving licence for manufacturing his model to the American Locomotive Company.

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Ahead of World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 CONTINUE to 60 CV. The main models experienced four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc design (12 CV) was produced between 1910 and 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders merely.The First World War resulted in a massive increase successful. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for this French army. The military orders placed major demands for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment within production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new primary factory.The Berliet CBA started to be the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 heap Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the French army. During 1916 40 advisors were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks presently. The number of workers employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover experienced multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed proper. The company became the Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess potential, as the army was no longer buying all the trucks the factory could generate, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded on the outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single form of truck and a single type of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck on which Berliet focused was this 5 ton CBA that had served the media so well during this war.

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The passenger car to become produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand with the 15th Paris Motor Show in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern appearance. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a key: rather than devote moment and engineering talent to developing a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet backup was well received within March 1919 when it had its first open outing, locally, at the Lyon Buy and sell Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price tag on just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed in order that the steel used in the car's construction was on the same quality as the Us steel used for the particular Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of your "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational problems for the company.

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The factory was set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars per day which would have been recently an ambitious target underneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off popular for what at this time was the manufacturer's only passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the organization into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in question, and Berliet was slipped into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% of the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors plus the firm therefore fell to the hands of the banking companies. Berliet was nevertheless able to retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected a powerful model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control on the business from the banking companies.

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