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Berliet had been a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military motor vehicles among other vehicles operating out of Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when ıt had been put into 'administration sequestre' it had been in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 as well as merged with Saviem into a new Renault Trucks corporation 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 have been followed in 1900 with a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over this plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to develop four-cylinder automobiles featured by a honeycomb radiator and material 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 driver's licence for manufacturing his model towards the American Locomotive Company.

Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a range of models from 8 CURRICULUM VITAE to 60 CV. The main models had four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc model (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were manufactured upon individual orders solely.The First World War triggered a massive increase sought after. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for your French army. The military orders placed major demands around the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment inside production plant and manufacturing facility space.In 1915 a 300 hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new major factory.The Berliet CBA started to be the iconic truck about the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 lot Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the particular French army. During 1916 40 of them were leaving the plant each day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also producing shells and battle tanks currently. The number of individuals employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover experienced multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new lawful structure was deemed proper. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Motor vehicles Marius Berliet.Following the war the manufacturer reoriented portion of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless discovered themselves with excess volume, as the army was will no longer buying all the pickup trucks the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded to the outbreak of peace by deciding to produce just a single form of truck and a single form of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was your 5 ton CBA that had served the united states so well during the war.

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The passenger car being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand with the 15th Paris Motor Show in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Sort VB" of modern appearance. Marius Berliet was not just one to miss a tip: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to having a new car for the new decade, he obtained and copied an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet copy was well received in March 1919 when that had its first public outing, locally, at the Lyon Business Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high plus the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the cost of just 11, 800 francs in October 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure that the steel used from the car's construction was from the same quality as the American steel used for the Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of this "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational destruction of the company.

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The factory had been set up to generate the "Berliet Type VB" with the rate of 100 cars per day which would have already been an ambitious target below any circumstances. The rapid drop-off in demand for what during this period was the manufacturer's simply passenger car model that followed the coffee quality issues plunged the company into financial difficulties, with losses of second there’s 55 million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in question, and Berliet was put into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% from the share capital, but was unable to settle all the company's creditors along with the firm therefore fell into the hands of the banking companies. Berliet was nevertheless in a position to retain operational control. During the ensuring ten years, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected a powerful model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to repay his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control on the business from the banks.

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