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Berliet ended up being a French manufacturer regarding automobiles, buses, trucks and military motor vehicles among other vehicles operating out of Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a new five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it turned out 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 as well as merged with Saviem in a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started the experiments with automobiles throughout 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were followed in 1900 by a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over your plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured with a honeycomb radiator and steel chassis frame was used as an alternative to wood. The next year, a model was launched that has been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driver's licence for manufacturing his model to the American Locomotive Company.

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Ahead of World War I, Berliet offered a array of models from 8 CV to 60 CV. The main models experienced four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc design (12 CV) was produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were created upon individual orders just.The First World War triggered a massive increase successful. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands on the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment within production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest in order to build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA grew to become the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entrance at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 load Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the French army. During 1916 40 of them were leaving the plant everyday. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also generating shells and battle tanks right now. The number of employees employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the importance of annual turnover experienced multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new legitimate structure was deemed suitable. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess volume, as the army was don't buying all the trucks the factory could develop, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded on the outbreak of peace by deciding to generate just a single sort of truck and a single type of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was the 5 ton CBA that had served the united states so well during the war.

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The passenger car to become produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand in the 15th Paris Motor Indicate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern visual appeal. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a trick: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to creating a new car for the newest decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet content was well received with March 1919 when this had its first community outing, locally, at the Lyon Buy and sell Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and also the simple disc wheels were being large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price of just 11, 800 francs in July 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure the steel used within the car's construction was of the same quality as the United states steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of your "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational destruction of the company.

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The factory have been set up to develop the "Berliet Type VB" at the rate of 100 cars each day which would have also been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off in demand for what at this stage was the manufacturer's solely passenger car model that followed the coffee quality issues plunged the organization into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty-five million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in question, and Berliet was placed in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% in the share capital, but was unable to repay all the company's creditors plus the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable to retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected a simple yet effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to repay his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control within the business from the financial institutions.

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