Berliet was a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles within Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a 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 by simply 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 experiments with automobiles throughout 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured by a 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 license for manufacturing his model for the American Locomotive Company.
Just before World War I, Berliet offered a range of models from 8 CV to 60 CV. The main models acquired four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc product (12 CV) seemed to be produced between 1910 along with 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were created upon individual orders merely.The First World War led to a massive increase popular. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for this French army. The military orders placed major demands on the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment in production plant and factory space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was bought between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA grew to be the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle top at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 heap Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by this French army. During 1916 40 advisors were leaving the plant every day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also making shells and battle tanks currently. The number of staff employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the worth of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed suitable. The company became the Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.Following the war the manufacturer reoriented portion of its production back for you to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess capability, as the army was not buying all the pickup trucks the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single style of truck and a single type of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was the 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during the war.
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The passenger car being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand in the 15th Paris Motor Present 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 strategy: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to making a new car for the new decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet copy was well received throughout March 1919 when that had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade 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 price of just 11, 800 francs in October 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make certain the steel used within the car's construction was with the same quality as the Us steel used for this Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of the actual "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational destruction of the company.
The factory had been set up to generate the "Berliet Type VB" on the rate of 100 cars each day which would have already been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off successful for what at this time was the manufacturer's simply passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the company into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in hesitation, and Berliet was placed in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% in the share capital, but was unable in order to all the company's creditors along with the firm therefore fell into the hands of the finance institutions. Berliet was nevertheless in a position to retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected a highly effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control within the business from the finance institutions.
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