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Berliet ended up being a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military automobiles 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 turned out put into 'administration sequestre' ıt had been in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 and merged with Saviem into a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles in 1894. Some single-cylinder cars had been followed in 1900 by way of twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte within Lyon. Berliet started to build four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and metallic chassis frame was used as opposed to 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 range of models from 8 RESUME to 60 CV. The main models acquired four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit 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 along with 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were manufactured upon individual orders solely.The First World War generated a massive increase sought after. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the actual French army. The military orders placed major demands for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment in production plant and manufacturing plant space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new major factory.The Berliet CBA grew to become the iconic truck about the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle top at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 lot Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the actual French army. During 1916 40 of these were leaving the plant each day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also creating shells and battle tanks at this time. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the worth of annual turnover got multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed appropriate. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.Following the war the manufacturer reoriented part of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess volume, as the army was no more buying all the vans the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single style of truck and a single style of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck on what Berliet focused was the actual 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during the particular war.

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The passenger car to be produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand with the 15th Paris Motor Show in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Kind VB" of modern physical appearance. Marius Berliet was not just one to miss a tip: rather than devote time period and engineering talent to making a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet copy was well received inside March 1919 when this had its first open outing, locally, at the Lyon Deal Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and the simple disc wheels ended up large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price of just 11, 800 francs in July 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure that the steel used within the car's construction was in the same quality as the American steel used for the particular Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for that early customers of the particular "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational problems for the company.

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The factory was set up to develop the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have already been an ambitious target below any circumstances. The rapid drop-off popular for what during this period was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the coffee quality issues plunged the organization into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was placed in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% in the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors and also the firm therefore fell into the hands of the banking companies. Berliet was nevertheless capable to retain operational control. During the ensuring ten years, supported by a sustained recovery in demand that in turn reflected a powerful model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able in order to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control on the business from the banking institutions.

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