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Berliet was a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military automobiles among other vehicles located in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a new five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it turned out put into 'administration sequestre' it was in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired through Renault in 1974 in addition to merged with Saviem in 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 had been followed in 1900 by a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to create four-cylinder automobiles featured with a honeycomb radiator and material chassis frame was used as opposed to 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 to the American Locomotive Company.

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Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 COMPREHENSIVE RESUME to 60 CV. The main models received 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) has been produced between 1910 and also 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were produced upon individual orders merely.The First World War triggered 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 inside production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was bought between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new key factory.The Berliet CBA grew to become the iconic truck around the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle top 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 these were leaving the plant every day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also making shells and battle tanks right now. The number of individuals employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed suitable. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess volume, as the army was no longer buying all the pickup trucks the factory could develop, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded to the outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single style of truck and a single type of car, which represented a leaving from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck on what Berliet focused was the particular 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during the war.

The passenger car to be produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand at the 15th Paris Motor Show in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern appearance. Marius Berliet was not one to miss a trick: rather than devote moment and engineering talent to possessing a new car for the new decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet backup was well received inside March 1919 when that had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Business Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the buying price of just 11, 800 francs in Oct 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make sure that the steel used in the car's construction was from the same quality as the United states steel used for the actual 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 had been set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" with the rate of 100 cars each day which would have recently been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off successful for what at this point was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the standard issues plunged the small business into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded in one 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 and also the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless competent to retain operational control. During the ensuring few years, supported by a sustained recovery sought after that in turn reflected a highly effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able in order to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control above the business from the banks.

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