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Berliet was a French manufacturer regarding automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles operating out of Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when ıt had been put into 'administration sequestre' it was in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 as well as merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his / her experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were followed in 1900 with a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the particular plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by a honeycomb radiator and metal chassis frame was used rather then wood. The next year, a model was launched that was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the permit for manufacturing his model on the American Locomotive Company.

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Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 RESUME to 60 CV. The main models received four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc model (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 along with 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were built upon individual orders just.The First World War concluded in a massive increase popular. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands around the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment in production plant and manufacturing area space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new main factory.The Berliet CBA grew to be the iconic truck for the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 great deal Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the French army. During 1916 40 of these were leaving the plant each day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also producing shells and battle tanks at the moment. The number of workers employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the price of annual turnover acquired multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed appropriate. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back for you to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless observed themselves with excess capacity, as the army was no more buying all the trucks the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded on the outbreak of peace by deciding to make just a single form of truck and a single type of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was the particular 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during the actual war.

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The passenger car for being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand at the 15th Paris Motor Display in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Sort VB" of modern physical appearance. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a technique: rather than devote period and engineering talent to having a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and replicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet content was well received in March 1919 when that had its first public outing, locally, at the Lyon Business Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and 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 the steel used from the car's construction was on the same quality as the American steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for that early customers of the particular "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational destruction of the company.

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The factory had been set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars per day which would have been recently an ambitious target below any circumstances. The rapid drop-off in demand for what at this time was the manufacturer's simply passenger car model that followed the product quality issues plunged the company into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded available as one year. Survival was in hesitation, and Berliet was used in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% on the share capital, but was unable in order to all the company's creditors plus the firm therefore fell into the hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless able to retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 years, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected an effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to repay his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control on the business from the finance institutions.

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