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Berliet was a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles located in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from any five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it had been put into 'administration sequestre' it had been in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 and merged with Saviem into a new Renault Trucks firm in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his or her experiments with automobiles within 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were being followed in 1900 by a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over your plant of Audibert & Lavirotte throughout Lyon. Berliet started to develop four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and material chassis frame was used as opposed to wood. The next year, a model was launched that's similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driving licence for manufacturing his model to the American Locomotive Company.

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Before World War I, Berliet offered a selection of models from 8 RESUME to 60 CV. The main models had four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc style (12 CV) had been produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were built upon individual orders only.The First World War triggered a massive increase in demand. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands about the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment within production plant and manufacturing facility space.In 1915 a 600 hectare site was purchased between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new key factory.The Berliet CBA started to be the iconic truck within 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 this French army. During 1916 40 of which were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks currently. The number of staff employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover experienced multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new legal structure was deemed proper. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented part of its production back to help passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess potential, as the army was will no longer buying all the pickups the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded on the outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single sort of truck and a single style of car, which represented a departure from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck what is the best Berliet focused was the particular 5 ton CBA that had served the united states 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 Type VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a tip: rather than devote moment and engineering talent to creating a new car for the newest decade, he obtained and replicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet backup was well received within 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 had been large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the buying price of just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make sure that the steel used inside car's construction was of the same quality as the North american steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of this "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational destruction of the company.

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The factory was set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" on the rate of 100 cars daily which would have recently been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off widely used for what during this period was the manufacturer's merely passenger car model that followed the product quality issues plunged the organization into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in skepticism, and Berliet was placed in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% with the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell in the hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 years, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control above the business from the banking institutions.

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