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Berliet was a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military motor vehicles among other vehicles situated in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from any five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it turned out put into 'administration sequestre' it had been in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by means of Renault in 1974 as well as merged with Saviem right into a new Renault Trucks business in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his or her experiments with automobiles in 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were followed in 1900 with a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte inside Lyon. Berliet started to create four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and metal chassis frame was used rather than wood. The next year, a model was launched that was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the permit for manufacturing his model for the American Locomotive Company.

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Before World War I, Berliet offered a selection of models from 8 COMPREHENSIVE RESUME to 60 CV. The main models had four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc type (12 CV) had been produced between 1910 as well as 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders just.The First World War led to a massive increase widely used. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment within production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so that you can build a new primary factory.The Berliet CBA started to be the iconic truck on 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 French army. During 1916 40 of which were leaving the plant every day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also generating shells and battle tanks at the moment. The number of employees employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new lawful structure was deemed proper. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.Following the war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back for you to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess capacity, as the army was not buying all the pickup trucks the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single form of truck and a single sort of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war industry strategy. The single truck on which Berliet focused was the actual 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during the particular war.

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The passenger car for being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand for the 15th Paris Motor Show in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a key: rather than devote time period and engineering talent to possessing a new car for the newest decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet replicate was well received throughout March 1919 when the item had its first community outing, locally, at the Lyon Deal Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as 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 March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure that the steel used inside the car's construction was of the same quality as the American steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems with the early customers of the particular "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational problems for the company.

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The factory ended up set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" with the rate of 100 cars daily which would have also been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off sought after for what during this period was the manufacturer's solely passenger car model that followed the product quality issues plunged the organization into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty-five million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was put in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% with the share capital, but was unable to repay all the company's creditors and the firm therefore fell to the hands of the finance institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 years, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to repay his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control over the business from the banks.

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