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Berliet has been a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles operating out of Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from some sort of five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it turned out put into 'administration sequestre' it had been in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired simply by Renault in 1974 and also merged with Saviem right into a new Renault Trucks firm in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles in 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by way of a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the actual plant of Audibert & Lavirotte throughout Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and aluminum chassis frame was used rather than 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 towards 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 acquired four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc design (12 CV) had been produced between 1910 and also 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were manufactured upon individual orders only.The First World War concluded in a massive increase popular. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands about the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturing area space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new key factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 great deal Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by your French army. During 1916 40 of them were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also producing shells and battle tanks at this time. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover had multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed ideal. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Motor vehicles Marius Berliet.Following the war the manufacturer reoriented portion of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess volume, as the army was no longer buying all the trucks the factory could develop, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single sort of truck and a single form of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war industry strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was the particular 5 ton CBA that had served the country so well during your war.

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The passenger car to become produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand in the 15th Paris Motor Show in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Kind VB" of modern physical appearance. Marius Berliet was not just one to miss a key: rather than devote period 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 content was well received with March 1919 when the idea had its first general public outing, locally, at the Lyon Business Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high plus the simple disc wheels were large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the cost of just 11, 800 francs in October 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed in order that the steel used inside the car's construction was with the same quality as the North american steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for that 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 create the "Berliet Type VB" in the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have also been an ambitious target beneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off popular for what during this period was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the small business into financial difficulties, with losses of second there’s 55 million francs recorded in one year. Survival was in uncertainty, and Berliet was used in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% with the share capital, but was unable in order to all the company's creditors along with the firm therefore fell into the hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless capable to retain operational control. During the ensuring several years, supported by a sustained recovery in demand that in turn reflected a powerful model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to pay off his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control on the business from the financial institutions.

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