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Berliet has been a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military automobiles among other vehicles based in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a new five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when ıt had been put into 'administration sequestre' it had been in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by means of Renault in 1974 as well as merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started their experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars had been followed in 1900 with a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over your plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to create four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and steel 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 for the American Locomotive Company.

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Before World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 CONTINUE to 60 CV. The main models experienced four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc design (12 CV) was produced between 1910 and 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders only.The First World War triggered a massive increase successful. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the French army. The military orders placed major demands about the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment inside production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a 300 hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest in order to build a new major factory.The Berliet CBA started to be the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entrance at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 ton Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the particular French army. During 1916 40 of these were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also producing shells and battle tanks currently. The number of individuals employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the worth of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed appropriate. The company became this Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.Following your war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back for you to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess potential, as the army was no more buying all the trucks the factory could generate, 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 form of car, which represented a leaving from his pre-war marketplace strategy. The single truck on what Berliet focused was the actual 5 ton CBA that had served the united states so well during the war.

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The passenger car to be produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand in the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was not one to miss a tip: rather than devote time period and engineering talent to having a new car for the modern decade, he obtained and copied an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet duplicate was well received in March 1919 when it had its first general public outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high along with the simple disc wheels were large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the buying price of just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure that the steel used from the car's construction was of the same quality as the United states steel used for the particular Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of the actual "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational damage to the company.

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The factory ended up set up to develop the "Berliet Type VB" in the rate of 100 cars each day which would have recently been an ambitious target below any circumstances. The rapid drop-off successful for what at this stage was the manufacturer's simply passenger car model that followed the product quality issues plunged the organization into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded available as one year. Survival was in skepticism, and Berliet was used in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% on the share capital, but was unable in order to all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell into your hands of the banking institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to pay off his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control within the business from the finance institutions.

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