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Berliet had been a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military motor vehicles among other vehicles based in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from some sort of five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it was put into 'administration sequestre' it absolutely was in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired simply by Renault in 1974 along with merged with Saviem right into a new Renault Trucks firm in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started the experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars had been followed in 1900 with a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the actual plant of Audibert & Lavirotte inside Lyon. Berliet started to build four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of a honeycomb radiator and metallic 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 licence for manufacturing his model on the American Locomotive Company.

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Just before World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 COMPREHENSIVE RESUME 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) had been produced between 1910 and also 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders just.The First World War generated a massive increase in demand. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands within the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturing facility space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was purchased between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest in order to build a new main factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck around the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entry at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 lot Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the actual French army. During 1916 40 of which were leaving the plant every day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also making shells and battle tanks at this time. The number of workers employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the worth of annual turnover acquired multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new lawful structure was deemed proper. The company became the Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.Following the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess capability, as the army was no more buying all the pickups the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards the outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single style of truck and a single type of car, which represented a starting from his pre-war market strategy. The single truck on which Berliet focused was your 5 ton CBA that had served the country so well during your war.

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The passenger car to be produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand with the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Variety VB" of modern physical appearance. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a key: rather than devote period and engineering talent to developing a new car for the modern decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet copy was well received with March 1919 when this had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and also the simple disc wheels were large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the expense of just 11, 800 francs in April 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed in order that the steel used in the car's construction was from the same quality as the American steel used for the particular Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for the early customers of the actual "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational damage to the company.

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The factory were being set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" at the rate of 100 cars daily which would have also been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off in demand for what at this time was the manufacturer's merely passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the organization into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded available as one year. Survival was in question, and Berliet was used in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% of the share capital, but was unable in order to all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell into the hands of the banking institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable 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 pay off his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control in the business from the banking companies.

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