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Berliet seemed to be a French manufacturer regarding automobiles, buses, trucks and military autos among other vehicles situated in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it was put into 'administration sequestre' ıt had been in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 along with merged with Saviem in a new Renault Trucks business in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started their experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were being followed in 1900 with a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the actual plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to build four-cylinder automobiles featured with a honeycomb radiator and metal 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 driver's licence for manufacturing his model towards the American Locomotive Company.

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Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a selection of models from 8 CONTINUE to 60 CV. The main models acquired four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc product (12 CV) has been produced between 1910 and also 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were built upon individual orders just.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 on the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment inside production plant and manufacturing plant space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was purchased between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new main factory.The Berliet CBA grew to become 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 French army. During 1916 40 of them were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also creating shells and battle tanks at this time. The number of individuals employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover experienced multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new legitimate structure was deemed suitable. The company became this Société anonyme des Motor vehicles Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back to help passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess volume, as the army was no more buying all the vans the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single type of truck and a single kind of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war marketplace strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was your 5 ton CBA that had served the media so well during your war.

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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand at the 15th Paris Motor Display in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Variety VB" of modern visual appeal. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a tip: rather than devote time and engineering talent to possessing a new car for the new decade, he obtained and copied an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet backup was well received with March 1919 when this had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Buy and sell Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels were being large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price of just 11, 800 francs in Oct 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed in order that the steel used in the car's construction was with the same quality as the Us steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for that early customers of the "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational harm to the company.

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The factory ended up set up to develop the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars each day which would have recently been an ambitious target below any circumstances. The rapid drop-off sought after for what at this time was the manufacturer's simply passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of second there’s 55 million francs recorded available as one year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was put 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 in to the hands of the finance institutions. Berliet was nevertheless competent to retain operational control. During the ensuring several years, supported by a sustained recovery sought after that in turn reflected a simple yet effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to pay off his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control over the business from the finance institutions.

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