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Berliet seemed to be a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military vehicles 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 was put into 'administration sequestre' it absolutely was in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired through Renault in 1974 along with merged with Saviem right new Renault Trucks firm in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his / her experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by way of twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the particular plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to build four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and aluminum chassis frame was used rather then wood. The next year, a model was launched that had been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driver's licence for manufacturing his model to the American Locomotive Company.

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Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a range of models from 8 CURRICULUM VITAE 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 product (12 CV) was produced between 1910 along with 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders just.The First World War generated a massive increase successful. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for your French army. The military orders placed major demands within the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturing plant space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest in order to build a new key factory.The Berliet CBA started to be the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle the front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 lot Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by this French army. During 1916 40 of these were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks currently. The number of individuals employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover got multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed correct. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.Following your war the manufacturer reoriented a part of its production back for you to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess volume, as the army was no more buying all the pickup trucks the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single form of truck and a single kind of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war industry strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was your 5 ton CBA that had served the country so well during this war.

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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand on the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Kind VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a trick: rather than devote period and engineering talent to creating a new car for the modern decade, he obtained and ripped an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet replicate was well received in March 1919 when that had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Industry Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and the simple disc wheels were large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the buying price of just 11, 800 francs in July 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure the steel used from the car's construction was in the same quality as the Us steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for that early customers of the particular "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational harm to the company.

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The factory have been set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have been recently an ambitious target underneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off sought after for what at this point was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the enterprise into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded available as one year. Survival was in hesitation, and Berliet was slipped into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% from the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors plus the firm therefore fell into your hands of the banking institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable to retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 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 over the business from the banking companies.

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