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Berliet was a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military vehicles among other vehicles within Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from the five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when ıt had been 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 also merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks corporation in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started the experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by way of twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to build four-cylinder automobiles featured by a honeycomb radiator and aluminum chassis frame was used as an alternative to wood. The next year, a model was launched that was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driver's 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 received 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 and also 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were manufactured upon individual orders solely.The First World War concluded in a massive increase successful. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for this French army. The military orders placed major demands around the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment with production plant and factory space.In 1915 a 300 hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new primary factory.The Berliet CBA grew to be the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle top at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 ton Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by your French army. During 1916 40 of which were leaving the plant every 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 importance of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new legal structure was deemed suitable. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented part of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless observed themselves with excess ability, as the army was no more buying all the trucks the factory could develop, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single kind of truck and a single kind of car, which represented a departure from his pre-war marketplace strategy. The single truck on what 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 being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand with the 15th Paris Motor Demonstrate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Kind VB" of modern appearance. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a tip: rather than devote moment and engineering talent to making a new car for the brand new decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet replicate was well received inside March 1919 when it had its first public outing, locally, at the Lyon Buy and sell Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as 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 March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make certain the steel used within the car's construction was with the same quality as the Us steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of the actual "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational damage to the company.

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The factory had been set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" in the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have also been an ambitious target beneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off sought after for what at this time 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 available as one year. Survival was in skepticism, and Berliet was used in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% of the share capital, but was unable to pay off all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell into the hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless in a position to retain operational control. During the ensuring several years, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected an effective 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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