1920 BERLIET VL TORPEDO

Berliet seemed to be a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military vehicles 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 was put into 'administration sequestre' it absolutely was in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired through Renault in 1974 and also merged with Saviem right into a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started the experiments with automobiles within 1894. Some single-cylinder cars have been followed in 1900 by the twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte within Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and steel chassis frame was used rather then wood. The next year, a model was launched that was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the license for manufacturing his model towards the American Locomotive Company.

BERLIET Torpedo 1924

Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 RESUME to 60 CV. The main models acquired four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder model of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc type (12 CV) had been produced between 1910 along with 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were built upon individual orders only.The First World War triggered a massive increase widely used. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for this 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 four hundred hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest in order to build a new primary factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck for the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entrance 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 each day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also generating shells and battle tanks presently. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the importance of annual turnover got multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed suitable. The company became the Société anonyme des Autos Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless discovered themselves with excess volume, as the army was not buying all the trucks the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to make just a single style of truck and a single form of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war market strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was the actual 5 ton CBA that had served the world so well during this war.

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The passenger car to become produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand at the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Sort VB" of modern appearance. Marius Berliet was not one to miss a key: rather than devote time and engineering talent to having a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and replicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet replicate was well received within March 1919 when this had its first public outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and also the simple disc wheels had been large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price of just 11, 800 francs in Oct 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make certain the steel used inside the car's construction was from the same quality as the American steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of this "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational damage to the company.

Berliet torpedo 1924

Berliet Torpédo de 1932

The factory ended up set up to generate the "Berliet Type VB" at the rate of 100 cars every day which would have recently been an ambitious target under any circumstances. The rapid drop-off widely used for what at this point was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the company into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in hesitation, and Berliet was put in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% on the share capital, but was unable to pay off all the company's creditors and also the firm therefore fell into the hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless able to retain operational control. During the ensuring several 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 over the business from the banking companies.

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