Berliet T 100 benne. Jouets IPL. 106. Made in France. Années 70

Berliet seemed to be a French manufacturer regarding automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles based 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 it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 and merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks firm in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his / her experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by the twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the actual plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured with a honeycomb radiator and metal chassis frame was used instead of wood. The next year, a model was launched that's similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driver's licence for manufacturing his model towards American Locomotive Company.

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Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a selection of models from 8 CURRICULUM VITAE to 60 CV. The main models received four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc product (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 along with 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders simply.The First World War generated a massive increase popular. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for your French army. The military orders placed major demands for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment inside production plant and manufacturing area space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA started to be the iconic truck within the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entry 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 them were leaving the plant each day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also making shells and battle tanks currently. The number of employees 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 actual Société anonyme des Autos Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back to help passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess capability, as the army was 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 create just a single kind of truck and a single form of car, which represented a leaving from his pre-war industry strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was your 5 ton CBA that had served the world so well during the actual war.

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The passenger car to be produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand at the 15th Paris Motor Indicate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Kind VB" of modern visual appeal. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a tip: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to having a new car for the new decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet copy was well received in March 1919 when the idea had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high plus the simple disc wheels were being large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the expense of just 11, 800 francs in July 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make sure that the steel used from the car's construction was in the same quality as the American steel used for this Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of your "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational problems for the company.

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The factory ended up set up to produce the "Berliet Type VB" with the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have recently been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off widely used for what at this point was the manufacturer's only passenger car model that followed the standard issues plunged the organization into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded available as one year. Survival was in question, and Berliet was put into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% on the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell into your hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless competent to retain operational control. During the ensuring ten years, 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 on the business from the finance institutions.

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