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Berliet ended up being a French manufacturer involving automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles within Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from the 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 means of Renault in 1974 in addition to merged with Saviem right new Renault Trucks firm in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars had been followed in 1900 by way of a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over your plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of a honeycomb radiator and aluminum chassis frame was used instead of wood. The next year, a model was launched that has been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the licence for manufacturing his model for the American Locomotive Company.

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Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a array of models from 8 CONTINUE to 60 CV. The main models acquired four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc model (12 CV) seemed to be produced between 1910 and also 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were manufactured upon individual orders only.The First World War led to a massive increase widely used. 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 within production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new main factory.The Berliet CBA started to be the iconic truck around 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 which were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also making shells and battle tanks at the moment. The number of workers employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed proper. The company became this Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented a part of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess ability, as the army was no longer buying all the pickups the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards the outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single form of truck and a single type of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck on which Berliet focused was the 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during the actual war.

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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand in the 15th Paris Motor Indicate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Variety VB" of modern look. Marius Berliet was not just one to miss a tip: rather than devote moment and engineering talent to creating a new car for the modern decade, he obtained and replicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet duplicate was well received in March 1919 when the idea had its first public outing, locally, at the Lyon Business Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the cost of just 11, 800 francs in October 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed in order that the steel used inside the car's construction was from the same quality as the American steel used for the Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of the actual "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational injury to the company.

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

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