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Berliet seemed to be a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles situated in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from some sort of 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 through Renault in 1974 and merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles within 1894. Some single-cylinder cars had been followed in 1900 by a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over this plant of Audibert & Lavirotte throughout Lyon. Berliet started to develop four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and aluminum chassis frame was used rather than wood. The next year, a model was launched that has been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the permit for manufacturing his model on the American Locomotive Company.

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Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 COMPREHENSIVE RESUME 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 model (12 CV) has been produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were manufactured upon individual orders merely.The First World War generated a massive increase sought after. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for this French army. The military orders placed major demands for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment in production plant and manufacturing plant space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA grew to be the iconic truck within the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle 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 which were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also making shells and battle tanks at the moment. The number of individuals employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover experienced multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed suitable. The company became the Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.Following the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back for you to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess potential, as the army was don't buying all the pickups the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards the outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single form of truck and a single sort of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck on what Berliet focused was the actual 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during this war.

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The passenger car to be produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand with the 15th Paris Motor Show in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Kind VB" of modern look. Marius Berliet was not just one to miss a strategy: rather than devote period and engineering talent to developing a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet replicate was well received within March 1919 when that had its first open outing, locally, at the Lyon Buy and sell Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and the simple disc wheels had been large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the cost 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 of the same quality as the North american steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of the "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational harm to the company.

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The factory had been set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" at the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have recently been an ambitious target underneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off widely used for what at this point was the manufacturer's only passenger car model that followed the product quality issues plunged the company into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in skepticism, and Berliet was put in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% with the share capital, but was unable to repay all the company's creditors along with the firm therefore fell into your hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless in a position to retain operational control. During the ensuring few years, supported by a sustained recovery in demand 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 on the business from the banks.

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