Berliet has been a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military motor vehicles among other vehicles operating out of Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from any five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it had been put into 'administration sequestre' it had been in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired through Renault in 1974 along with merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his / her experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars have been followed in 1900 with a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to create four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and metallic chassis frame was used as opposed to wood. The next year, a model was launched that was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the permit for manufacturing his model for the American Locomotive Company.
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Ahead of World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 CONTINUE to 60 CV. The main models received 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) seemed to be produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders only.The First World War led to a massive increase widely used. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment inside production plant and manufacturing plant space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new key factory.The Berliet CBA evolved into the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle the front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 great deal Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the actual French army. During 1916 40 of them were leaving the plant every day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also making shells and battle tanks presently. The number of employees employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the price of annual turnover acquired multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed appropriate. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Motor vehicles Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess volume, as the army was no longer buying all the pickup trucks the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded to the outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single type of truck and a single form of car, which represented a starting from his pre-war industry strategy. The single truck which 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 to become produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand on the 15th Paris Motor Indicate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Sort VB" of modern appearance. Marius Berliet was it's unlikely that any to miss a technique: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to creating a new car for the modern decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet copy was well received within March 1919 when that had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Business Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price of just 11, 800 francs in April 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure the steel used within the car's construction was in the same quality as the North american steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for the early customers of the actual "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational harm to the company.
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The factory was set up to generate the "Berliet Type VB" in the rate of 100 cars every day which would have been recently an ambitious target below any circumstances. The rapid drop-off in demand for what at this stage was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the enterprise into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in skepticism, and Berliet was placed in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% from the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors along with the firm therefore fell into the hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring ten years, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control in the business from the financial institutions.
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