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Berliet has been a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles located in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from some sort of 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 by means of Renault in 1974 in addition to merged with Saviem into a new Renault Trucks corporation in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his or her experiments with automobiles in 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were followed in 1900 by way of a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the actual plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and steel chassis frame was used rather then wood. The next year, a model was launched which was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the licence for manufacturing his model for the American Locomotive Company.

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Ahead of World War I, Berliet offered a selection of models from 8 CURRICULUM VITAE to 60 CV. The main models got four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc model (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 along with 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were manufactured upon individual orders solely.The First World War concluded in 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 in production plant and factory space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so that you can build a new key 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 lot Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the actual French army. During 1916 40 of them were leaving the plant every day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also creating shells and battle tanks presently. The number of employees employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover had multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new lawful structure was deemed appropriate. The company became the Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess capability, as the army was not buying all the trucks the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded on the outbreak of peace by deciding to make just a single kind of truck and a single kind of car, which represented a leaving from his pre-war industry strategy. The single truck on what Berliet focused was the 5 ton CBA that had served the country so well during your war.

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The passenger car for being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand on the 15th Paris Motor Indicate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern visual appeal. Marius Berliet was it's unlikely that any to miss a technique: rather than devote time and engineering talent to developing a new car for the modern decade, he obtained and ripped an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet content was well received inside March 1919 when the idea had its first public outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels ended up large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the cost of just 11, 800 francs in April 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make sure that the steel used from the car's construction was in the same quality as the United states steel used for the Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for the early customers of your "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational injury to the company.

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The factory ended up set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" with the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have been recently an ambitious target under any circumstances. The rapid drop-off widely used for what at this time was the manufacturer's solely passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded in one year. Survival was in uncertainty, and Berliet was placed 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 along with the firm therefore fell in the hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless competent to retain operational control. During the ensuring several years, supported by a sustained recovery in demand that in turn reflected an effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able in order to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control in the business from the banking institutions.

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