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Berliet had been a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military motor vehicles among other vehicles situated in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from some sort of five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it absolutely was put into 'administration sequestre' it was in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 as well as merged with Saviem right new Renault Trucks company in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles in 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were being followed in 1900 by way of a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the particular plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured by a honeycomb radiator and steel chassis frame was used rather then 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 on the American Locomotive Company.

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Just before World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 COMPREHENSIVE RESUME to 60 CV. The main models got four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc model (12 CV) seemed to be produced between 1910 and also 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were produced upon individual orders just.The First World War concluded in a massive increase widely used. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for this French army. The military orders placed major demands around the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturing area space.In 1915 a 300 hectare site was purchased between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA evolved into the iconic truck within 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 which were leaving the plant every day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks right now. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the worth of annual turnover experienced multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new lawful structure was deemed proper. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Autos Marius Berliet.Following the war the manufacturer reoriented portion of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless observed themselves with excess capability, as the army was no longer buying all the vehicles the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards outbreak of peace by deciding to generate just a single style of truck and a single style of car, which represented a leaving from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck on what Berliet focused was this 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 with the 15th Paris Motor Demonstrate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Kind VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a strategy: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to making a new car for the brand new decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet content was well received throughout March 1919 when the idea had its first open 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 cost of just 11, 800 francs in April 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure that the steel used from the car's construction was from the same quality as the American steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of the particular "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational harm to the company.

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The factory had been set up to generate the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have already been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off popular for what during this period was the manufacturer's solely passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded in a single 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 to settle all the company's creditors plus the firm therefore fell into your hands of the banking companies. Berliet was nevertheless competent to retain operational control. During the ensuring several years, supported by a sustained recovery successful that in turn reflected a highly effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control within the business from the banking companies.

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