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Berliet had been a French manufacturer regarding automobiles, buses, trucks and military automobiles among other vehicles operating out of Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from some sort of five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it had been put into 'administration sequestre' it absolutely was in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired simply by Renault in 1974 along with merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks company in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started the experiments with automobiles in 1894. Some single-cylinder cars had been followed in 1900 by the twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over your plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to create four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and metallic 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 permit for manufacturing his model for the American Locomotive Company.

Berliet T100 n°2 Hassi Messaoud – 1959

Ahead of World War I, Berliet offered a selection of models from 8 CONTINUE to 60 CV. The main models had four-cylinder engines (2412 cc 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 as well as 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were created upon individual orders merely.The First World War led to a massive increase successful. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for your French army. The military orders placed major demands about the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment with production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new major factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck for the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle the front 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 each day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also making shells and battle tanks at this time. The number of employees employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the price of annual turnover had multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed appropriate. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Motor vehicles Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back to help passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess capability, as the army was will no longer buying all the vans the factory could generate, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to produce just a single sort of truck and a single type of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war market strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was this 5 ton CBA that had served the country so well during the particular war.

Berliet – T100 n°2 Fondation Berliet

The passenger car to be produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand at the 15th Paris Motor Demonstrate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Sort VB" of modern physical appearance. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a technique: rather than devote time period and engineering talent to having a new car for the new decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet duplicate was well received throughout March 1919 when it had its first community outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high plus the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the expense of just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed in order that the steel used inside the car's construction was on the same quality as the American steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems with the early customers of this "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational problems for the company.

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Berliet – T100 n°1 Fondation Berliet

The factory had been set up to produce the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars per day which would have been recently an ambitious target under any circumstances. The rapid drop-off sought after for what at this stage was the manufacturer's simply passenger car model that followed the standard issues plunged the small business into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty-five million francs recorded in one year. Survival was in uncertainty, and Berliet was put into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% on the share capital, but was unable to settle all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell to the hands of the finance institutions. Berliet was nevertheless competent to retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 years, supported by a sustained recovery successful that in turn reflected a simple yet effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control over the business from the banking companies.

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