Berliet had been a French manufacturer connected 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 new five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it had been put into 'administration sequestre' ıt had been in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired through Renault in 1974 in addition to merged with Saviem right into a new Renault Trucks firm in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started their experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were followed in 1900 by way of twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the particular plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to create four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and metal chassis frame was used as an alternative to wood. The next year, a model was launched that has been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the license for manufacturing his model on the American Locomotive Company.
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Just before World War I, Berliet offered a array of models from 8 CV to 60 CV. The main models received 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) has been produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were created upon individual orders simply.The First World War resulted in a massive increase widely used. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the actual French army. The military orders placed major demands for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment in production plant and manufacturing area space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new major factory.The Berliet CBA grew to be the iconic truck for the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entrance at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 load Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the actual French army. During 1916 40 advisors were leaving the plant every day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also creating shells and battle tanks right now. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover experienced multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed suitable. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess potential, as the army was not buying all the pickup trucks the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single kind of truck and a single style of car, which represented a starting from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck on what Berliet focused was this 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during the actual war.
The passenger car to be 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 it's unlikely that any to miss a key: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to developing a new car for the newest decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet backup was well received in March 1919 when the item had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and also the simple disc wheels ended up large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price tag on just 11, 800 francs in October 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make certain the steel used from the car's construction was of the same quality as the United states steel used for the particular Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of the actual "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational damage to the company.
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The factory had been set up to generate the "Berliet Type VB" with the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have been an ambitious target beneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off in demand for what at this stage was the manufacturer's only passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the small business into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty-five million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in hesitation, and Berliet was put in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% of the share capital, but was unable to settle all the company's creditors and the firm therefore fell to the hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery successful that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to repay his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control within the business from the banking institutions.
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