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Berliet seemed to be a French manufacturer involving automobiles, buses, trucks and military vehicles among other vehicles within 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' ıt had been in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired simply by Renault in 1974 along with merged with Saviem right into a new Renault Trucks corporation in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his / her experiments with automobiles in 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were followed in 1900 by way of twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over this plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and metal chassis frame was used as opposed to 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 for the American Locomotive Company.

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Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 CURRICULUM VITAE to 60 CV. The main models had four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc product (12 CV) was produced between 1910 and 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders solely.The First World War resulted in a massive increase successful. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the actual French army. The military orders placed major demands within the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment with production plant and factory space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA grew to become the iconic truck on 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 your French army. During 1916 40 ones were leaving the plant each day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also creating shells and battle tanks presently. The number of staff employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover got multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed correct. The company became the Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.Following the war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless observed 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 provide just a single type of truck and a single form of car, which represented a starting from his pre-war market strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was the particular 5 ton CBA that had served the world so well during your war.

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The passenger car being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand at the 15th Paris Motor Display in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Variety VB" of modern visual appeal. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a strategy: rather than devote time and engineering talent to possessing a new car for the new decade, he obtained and ripped an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet copy was well received within March 1919 when that had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and the simple disc wheels were being large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the buying price of just 11, 800 francs in April 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure the steel used in the car's construction was with the same quality as the North american steel used for the particular Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of the "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational damage to the company.

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The factory have been set up to develop the "Berliet Type VB" at the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have recently been an ambitious target beneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off successful for what at this stage was the manufacturer's merely passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the small business into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in uncertainty, and Berliet was used in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% with the share capital, but was unable to settle all the company's creditors and also the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring several years, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to pay off his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control above the business from the financial institutions.

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