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Berliet seemed to be a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military vehicles among other vehicles located in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a new five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it turned out 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 and merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks corporation in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started their experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars had been followed in 1900 with a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over your plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to develop four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and metallic 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 licence for manufacturing his model on the American Locomotive Company.

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Before World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 RESUME to 60 CV. The main models got four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder model of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc model (12 CV) seemed to be produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were built upon individual orders only.The First World War led to a massive increase in demand. 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 throughout production plant and factory space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was bought between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so that you can 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 great deal Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the French army. During 1916 40 of which were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also creating shells and battle tanks at the moment. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed ideal. The company became the Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.Following your war the manufacturer reoriented part of its production back to help passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless discovered themselves with excess capacity, as the army was don't buying all the pickup trucks the factory could generate, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded to the outbreak of peace by deciding to produce just a single form of truck and a single kind of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war industry strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was the particular 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 in the 15th Paris Motor Indicate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Sort VB" of modern appearance. Marius Berliet was not one to miss a key: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to developing a new car for the newest decade, he obtained and copied an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet backup was well received within March 1919 when it had its first open outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels were large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the expense of just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure that the steel used inside the car's construction was from the same quality as the Us steel used for the Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of the "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational injury to the company.

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The factory had been set up to generate the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars per day which would have also been an ambitious target beneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off sought after for what during this period was the manufacturer's merely passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty-five million francs recorded available as one year. Survival was in hesitation, and Berliet was used in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% with 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 capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to repay his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control on the business from the banks.

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