Berliet was a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military vehicles 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 was put into 'administration sequestre' it turned out in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired through Renault in 1974 in addition to merged with Saviem in a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his / her experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were followed in 1900 with a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte inside Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and aluminum chassis frame was used as an alternative to wood. The next year, a model was launched which was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driving licence for manufacturing his model for the American Locomotive Company.
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Just before World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 CURRICULUM VITAE 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 type (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 and 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders only.The First World War triggered a massive increase in demand. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for your French army. The military orders placed major demands within the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment with production plant and factory space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new primary factory.The Berliet CBA started to be the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entry at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 load Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the actual 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 presently. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the importance of annual turnover had multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed appropriate. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Autos Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented a part of its production back for you to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess potential, as the army was not buying all the trucks the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards the outbreak of peace by deciding to produce just a single kind of truck and a single kind of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war industry strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was the 5 ton CBA that had served the united states so well during the particular war.
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The passenger car to become produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand with the 15th Paris Motor Indicate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern visual appeal. Marius Berliet was not one to miss a technique: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to creating a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and copied an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet replicate was well received in March 1919 when this had its first open outing, locally, at the Lyon Buy and sell Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high plus the simple disc wheels had 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 to make certain the steel used inside car's construction was with the same quality as the United states steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of the "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational destruction of the company.
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The factory were being set up to develop the "Berliet Type VB" at the rate of 100 cars daily which would have been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off widely used for what during this period was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the coffee quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty-five 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% with the share capital, but was unable to pay off all the company's creditors and the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the banking institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery sought after that in turn reflected an effective 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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