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Berliet seemed to be a French manufacturer regarding automobiles, buses, trucks and military autos among other vehicles situated in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a new five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it was 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 and also merged with Saviem right new Renault Trucks business in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his / her experiments with automobiles in 1894. Some single-cylinder cars had been followed in 1900 by the twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over this plant of Audibert & Lavirotte inside Lyon. Berliet started to develop 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 had been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driving licence for manufacturing his model towards the American Locomotive Company.

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Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 CONTINUE to 60 CV. The main models got four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder model of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc product (12 CV) was produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were built upon individual orders merely.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 for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturing facility space.In 1915 a 300 hectare site was purchased between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new primary factory.The Berliet CBA evolved into the iconic truck around the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle the front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 lot Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by this French army. During 1916 40 advisors were leaving the plant each day. 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 benefit of annual turnover acquired multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new legal structure was deemed proper. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented part of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess capacity, as the army was will no longer buying all the pickups the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single form of truck and a single sort of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was your 5 ton CBA that had served the country so well during the war.

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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand for the 15th Paris Motor Indicate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Variety VB" of modern physical appearance. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a tip: rather than devote time and engineering talent to having a new car for the modern decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet duplicate was well received in March 1919 when the idea had its first public outing, locally, at the Lyon Deal Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels were 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 in order that the steel used in the car's construction was with the same quality as the American steel used for the Dodge, and this resulted in series problems with the early customers of your "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational injury to the company.

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The factory had been set up to produce the "Berliet Type VB" with the rate of 100 cars each day which would have been recently an ambitious target underneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off popular for what at this point was the manufacturer's merely passenger car model that followed the product quality issues plunged the enterprise into financial difficulties, with losses of second there’s 55 million francs recorded a single year. Survival was in question, and Berliet was slipped into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% on the share capital, but was unable to repay all the company's creditors and the firm therefore fell into your hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless in a position to retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control within the business from the finance institutions.

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