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Berliet has been a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military automobiles among other vehicles located in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a new five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it turned out put into 'administration sequestre' it was in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired simply by Renault in 1974 as well as merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks business in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started their 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 inside Lyon. Berliet started to create four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and aluminum chassis frame was used rather then wood. The next year, a model was launched that has been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the licence for manufacturing his model towards the American Locomotive Company.

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Before World War I, Berliet offered a range of models from 8 RESUME to 60 CV. The main models received four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc type (12 CV) had been produced between 1910 and also 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were created upon individual orders only.The First World War generated a massive increase in demand. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the actual French army. The military orders placed major demands about the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment inside production plant and manufacturing plant space.In 1915 a 600 hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so that you can build a new major factory.The Berliet CBA started to be the iconic truck about the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 ton Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the actual French army. During 1916 40 advisors were leaving the plant each day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also generating shells and battle tanks at the moment. The number of workers 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 appropriate. The company became the Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.Following the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back to help passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless discovered themselves with excess ability, as the army was not buying all the vans the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for 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 market strategy. The single truck on which Berliet focused was the actual 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during the actual war.

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The passenger car being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand for the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Type VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a strategy: rather than devote moment and engineering talent to developing a new car for the modern decade, he obtained and ripped an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet duplicate was well received inside March 1919 when the item had its first public outing, locally, at the Lyon Industry Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price of just 11, 800 francs in October 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure the steel used inside the car's construction was of the same quality as the North american steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems with the early customers of your "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational injury to 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 already been an ambitious target beneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off successful for what at this stage was the manufacturer's solely passenger car model that followed the product quality issues plunged the company into financial difficulties, with losses of second there’s 55 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% of the share capital, but was unable to pay off all the company's creditors along with the firm therefore fell to the hands of the finance institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable to retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 years, supported by a sustained recovery successful that in turn reflected a highly effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to pay off his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control over the business from the banks.

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