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Berliet was a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles based in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it absolutely was 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 into a new Renault Trucks company in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles in 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were being followed in 1900 by way of twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over this plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by the 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 driver's licence for manufacturing his model for the American Locomotive Company.

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Ahead of World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 CONTINUE to 60 CV. The main models experienced four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc design (12 CV) was 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 on the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment inside production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA grew to be the iconic truck for the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entrance at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 ton Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the actual French army. During 1916 40 of them were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also producing shells and battle tanks currently. The number of individuals employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover had multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed correct. The company became this Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented part of its production back to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess capacity, as the army was not buying all the vans the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single kind of truck and a single style of car, which represented a departure from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was the 5 ton CBA that had served the world so well during this war.

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The passenger car for being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand for the 15th Paris Motor Demonstrate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern look. Marius Berliet was it's unlikely that any to miss a technique: rather than devote period and engineering talent to possessing a new car for the modern decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet duplicate was well received in March 1919 when this had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Industry Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and also the simple disc wheels were being large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price tag on just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure that the steel used inside car's construction was of the same quality as the Us steel used for this Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of the "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational destruction of the company.

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The factory ended up set up to produce the "Berliet Type VB" on the rate of 100 cars each day which would have been an ambitious target underneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off successful for what at this stage was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the company into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty five million francs recorded in one year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was put into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% in the share capital, but was unable to settle all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless capable to retain operational control. During the ensuring ten years, supported by a sustained recovery sought after that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able in order to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control above the business from the banking institutions.

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