Berliet has been a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military vehicles among other vehicles within Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from any five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it was put into 'administration sequestre' it turned out in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 and also merged with Saviem in a new Renault Trucks business in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles in 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were being followed in 1900 by the twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the particular plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured by a honeycomb radiator and material chassis frame was used rather than wood. The next year, a model was launched that had been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driving licence for manufacturing his model to the American Locomotive Company.
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Just before World War I, Berliet offered a range of models from 8 CONTINUE 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 type (12 CV) was produced between 1910 as well as 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders merely.The First World War concluded in a massive increase successful. 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 inside production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was purchased between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new major factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck within the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entrance at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 load Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by your French army. During 1916 40 of these were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also producing shells and battle tanks at this time. The number of workers employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover had multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new legal structure was deemed appropriate. The company became this Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless observed themselves with excess volume, as the army was don't buying all the vehicles the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards the outbreak of peace by deciding to make just a single type of truck and a single type of car, which represented a departure from his pre-war market strategy. The single truck on what Berliet focused was the actual 5 ton CBA that had served the media so well during this war.
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The passenger car for being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand for the 15th Paris Motor Indicate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Kind VB" of modern visual appeal. Marius Berliet was it's unlikely that any to miss a key: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to making a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet content was well received in March 1919 when it had its first open outing, locally, at the Lyon Deal Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high along with the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price tag on just 11, 800 francs in April 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure that the steel used within the car's construction was on the same quality as the United states steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for the early customers of the actual "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational harm to the company.
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The factory had been set up to produce the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars daily which would have recently been an ambitious target under any circumstances. The rapid drop-off in demand for what at this stage was the manufacturer's solely passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the enterprise into financial difficulties, with losses of second there’s 55 million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in doubt, 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 and the firm therefore fell in the hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless competent to retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 years, supported by a sustained recovery successful that in turn reflected a powerful model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to repay his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control in the business from the banking companies.
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