Berliet was a French manufacturer involving automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles within Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from the five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it had been put into 'administration sequestre' ıt had been in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by means of Renault in 1974 and also merged with Saviem right into a new Renault Trucks firm 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 had been followed in 1900 by way of twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the actual plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to create four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of a honeycomb radiator and metal chassis frame was used as opposed to 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 towards the American Locomotive Company.
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Just before World War I, Berliet offered a range of models from 8 RESUME to 60 CV. The main models experienced 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 simply.The First World War triggered a massive increase in demand. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the French army. The military orders placed major demands about the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and factory space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was purchased between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so that you can build a new key factory.The Berliet CBA evolved into the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 load Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the actual French army. During 1916 40 ones were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also creating shells and battle tanks at this time. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed correct. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.Following your war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess ability, as the army was don't buying all the pickup trucks the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded on the outbreak of peace by deciding to generate just a single style of truck and a single style of car, which represented a starting from his pre-war market strategy. The single truck on which Berliet focused was the particular 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 at the 15th Paris Motor Display in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Type VB" of modern appearance. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a trick: rather than devote moment and engineering talent to making a new car for the brand new decade, he obtained and ripped an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet replicate was well received throughout March 1919 when that had its first community outing, locally, at the Lyon Deal Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high along with the simple disc wheels ended up large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the cost of just 11, 800 francs in July 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make certain the steel used inside car's construction was in the same quality as the North american steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for the early customers of this "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational damage to the company.
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The factory were being set up to produce the "Berliet Type VB" with the rate of 100 cars daily which would have been recently an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off sought after for what at this time was the manufacturer's only passenger car model that followed the coffee quality issues plunged the organization into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded in one year. Survival was in question, and Berliet was placed in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% on the share capital, but was unable to pay off all the company's creditors and also the firm therefore fell into your hands of the banking institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable to retain operational control. During the ensuring few years, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected an effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control over the business from the banks.
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