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Berliet had been a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military automobiles among other vehicles located in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when ıt had been put into 'administration sequestre' it turned out in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired through Renault in 1974 and also merged with Saviem in a new Renault Trucks company in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his / her experiments with automobiles within 1894. Some single-cylinder cars had been followed in 1900 by way of twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the particular plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and metal chassis frame was used as an alternative to wood. The next year, a model was launched that had been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the licence for manufacturing his model towards American Locomotive Company.

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Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 CURRICULUM VITAE to 60 CV. The main models acquired four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc type (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 as well as 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were produced upon individual orders simply.The First World War triggered a massive increase widely used. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands around the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment in production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest in order to build a new major factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck about the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entry at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 heap Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by this French army. During 1916 40 of them were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also producing shells and battle tanks at the moment. The number of workers employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the worth of annual turnover acquired multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new lawful structure was deemed suitable. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Motor vehicles Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented a part of its production back to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess capability, as the army was will no longer buying all the vans the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to make just a single sort of truck and a single style of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war marketplace strategy. The single truck on which Berliet focused was this 5 ton CBA that had served the country so well during this war.

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The passenger car for being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand on the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Type VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a trick: rather than devote period and engineering talent to creating a new car for the modern decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet content was well received throughout March 1919 when the idea had its first public outing, locally, at the Lyon Buy and sell Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and the simple disc wheels were large, giving the car a pleasing "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 inside the car's construction was in the same quality as the United states steel used for this Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of the particular "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational injury to the company.

Berliet GDM et TDM CAMIONS D39; ANTAN, et ACTUEL

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The factory was set up to generate the "Berliet Type VB" on the rate of 100 cars every day which would have already been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off in demand for what during this period was the manufacturer's only passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty-five million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in hesitation, and Berliet was placed in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% in the share capital, but was unable in order to all the company's creditors and also the firm therefore fell into the 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 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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