01 Le MONTELIER MUSEE de la Fondation BERLIET

Berliet was a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military autos 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 was put into 'administration sequestre' ıt had been in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by simply Renault in 1974 as well as merged with Saviem right into a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were 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 build four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and metallic chassis frame was used rather than wood. The next year, a model was launched which was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the permit for manufacturing his model for the American Locomotive Company.

Berliet T100 n°2 1957 – Fondation Berliet

Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a selection of models from 8 CV to 60 CV. The main models acquired 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 and also 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders simply.The First World War concluded in a massive increase widely used. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the actual French army. The military orders placed major demands about the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment with production plant and manufacturing area space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new main factory.The Berliet CBA evolved into the iconic truck within the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle the front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 load Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by this French army. During 1916 40 advisors were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks right now. The number of staff employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the importance of annual turnover experienced multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed correct. The company became the Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented a part of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess ability, as the army was will no longer buying all the vans the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded to the outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single sort of truck and a single sort of car, which represented a departure from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was the actual 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during this war.

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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand for 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 merely one to miss a key: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to possessing a new car for the newest decade, he obtained and replicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet copy was well received within March 1919 when the item had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Business 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 April 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure the steel used inside car's construction was from the same quality as the Us steel used for this Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of this "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational harm to the company.

Au Mémorial de Verdun. Fondation Berliet

Le Berliet, Berliet Stradair

The factory ended up set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" at the rate of 100 cars per day which would have also been an ambitious target under any circumstances. The rapid drop-off in demand 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 fifty-five million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in uncertainty, and Berliet was placed in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% with the share capital, but was unable to repay all the company's creditors plus the firm therefore fell in the hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless in a position to retain operational control. During the ensuring ten years, supported by a sustained recovery sought after that in turn reflected a simple yet effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able in order to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control on the business from the finance institutions.

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