Berliet has been a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles situated in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from the five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it absolutely was put into 'administration sequestre' ıt had been in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired through 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 or her experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars have been followed in 1900 by the twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte within Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and material chassis frame was used instead of wood. The next year, a model was launched that has been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the license for manufacturing his model for the American Locomotive Company.
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Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 CV to 60 CV. The main models experienced four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc style (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 as well as 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were produced upon individual orders solely.The First World War generated a massive increase successful. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the actual French army. The military orders placed major demands around the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment with production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a 300 hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest in order to build a new main factory.The Berliet CBA started to be the iconic truck around the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entrance 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 of these were leaving the plant every day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks at this time. The number of staff employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the importance of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new lawful structure was deemed suitable. The company became this Société anonyme des Autos Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess capacity, as the army was no longer buying all the vans the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single sort of truck and a single type of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck on what Berliet focused was the particular 5 ton CBA that had served the world so well during your 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 Variety VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was not just one to miss a trick: rather than devote period and engineering talent to developing a new car for the new decade, he obtained and ripped an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet content was well received throughout March 1919 when this had its first community outing, locally, at the Lyon Buy and sell Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and the simple disc wheels had been large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price of just 11, 800 francs in July 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure the steel used inside the car's construction was of the same quality as the American steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your 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 make the "Berliet Type VB" with the rate of 100 cars each day which would have already been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off successful for what during this period was the manufacturer's solely passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the small business into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded available as one year. Survival was in skepticism, and Berliet was put in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% from the share capital, but was unable to settle all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell into the hands of the banking companies. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 years, supported by a sustained recovery sought after that in turn reflected a powerful model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to settle his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control over the business from the banking companies.
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