Berliet was a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military motor vehicles 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 absolutely was put into 'administration sequestre' it had been 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 a new Renault Trucks firm in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his or her experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by way of a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte inside Lyon. Berliet started to create four-cylinder automobiles featured with a honeycomb radiator and steel chassis frame was used rather then wood. The next year, a model was launched that was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driving licence for manufacturing his model to the American Locomotive Company.
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Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a range of models from 8 CONTINUE to 60 CV. The main models got four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder model of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc model (12 CV) seemed to be produced between 1910 and also 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were created upon individual orders just.The First World War generated a massive increase successful. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands on the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment inside production plant and manufacturing facility space.In 1915 a 300 hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new key factory.The Berliet CBA grew to be 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 the actual French army. During 1916 40 of these were leaving the plant each day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also producing shells and battle tanks at this time. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the worth of annual turnover acquired multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new legal structure was deemed ideal. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Motor vehicles Marius Berliet.Following the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back for you to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless discovered themselves with excess capacity, as the army was no more buying all the pickups the factory could develop, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards outbreak of peace by deciding to produce just a single kind of truck and a single kind of car, which represented a starting from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck on what Berliet focused was the 5 ton CBA that had served the media so well during the actual war.
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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand for the 15th Paris Motor Demonstrate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern visual appeal. Marius Berliet was not one to miss a key: rather than devote time period and engineering talent to having a new car for the new decade, he obtained and ripped an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet backup was well received with March 1919 when the item had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Buy and sell Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high along with the simple disc wheels had been large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the buying price of just 11, 800 francs in Oct 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure that the steel used from the car's construction was in the same quality as the American steel used for the particular Dodge, and this resulted in series problems with the early customers of the "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational injury to the company.
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The factory ended up set up to develop the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars every day which would have been an ambitious target underneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off sought after for what at this point was the manufacturer's only passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty five million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was put into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% of the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the banking institutions. Berliet was nevertheless in a position to retain operational control. During the ensuring ten years, supported by a sustained recovery in demand that in turn reflected an 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 financial institutions.
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