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Berliet has been a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military autos among other vehicles located in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from any five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it turned out put into 'administration sequestre' it had been in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 and merged with Saviem into a new Renault Trucks company in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started the experiments with automobiles throughout 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were followed in 1900 with a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the actual plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to build four-cylinder automobiles featured by a honeycomb radiator and metallic chassis frame was used rather then wood. The next year, a model was launched that has been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the licence for manufacturing his model to the American Locomotive Company.

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Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 CURRICULUM VITAE to 60 CV. The main models had 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) has been produced between 1910 along with 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were created upon individual orders only.The First World War resulted in a massive increase popular. 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 inside production plant and manufacturing area space.In 1915 a 600 hectare site was purchased between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so that you can build a new primary factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck around 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 the actual 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 presently. The number of workers employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the price of annual turnover had multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed correct. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Autos Marius Berliet.Following your war the manufacturer reoriented part of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess ability, as the army was will 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 generate just a single type of truck and a single form of car, which represented a departure 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 the actual war.

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

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The factory were being set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" with the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have already been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off popular for what at this time was the manufacturer's solely passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in uncertainty, and Berliet was used in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% in the share capital, but was unable to settle all the company's creditors and also the firm therefore fell into your hands of the banking institutions. Berliet was nevertheless in a position to retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 years, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected a simple yet effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to settle his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control above the business from the financial institutions.

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