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Berliet was a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles within 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' ıt had been in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 in addition to merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started their experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by the twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over this plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and material chassis frame was used as opposed to wood. The next year, a model was launched that's 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 range of models from 8 COMPREHENSIVE RESUME to 60 CV. The main models experienced four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc design (12 CV) seemed to be produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders merely.The First World War led to a massive increase in demand. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the French army. The military orders placed major demands within the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment inside production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a 300 hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new main factory.The Berliet CBA grew to be the iconic truck about the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle the front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 lot Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by this French army. During 1916 40 of these were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also making shells and battle tanks currently. The number of individuals employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the worth of annual turnover acquired multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed correct. The company became the Société anonyme des Motor vehicles Marius Berliet.Following the war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back to help passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess capacity, as the army was not buying all the pickups the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards outbreak of peace by deciding to produce just a single type of truck and a single sort of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war industry 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 become produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand with the 15th Paris Motor Display in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Type VB" of modern look. Marius Berliet was not one to miss a trick: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to making a new car for the newest decade, he obtained and copied an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet copy was well received in March 1919 when this had its first community outing, locally, at the Lyon Business Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and the simple disc wheels were large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price tag on just 11, 800 francs in July 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make sure that the steel used in the car's construction was of the same quality as the American steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of your "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational destruction of the company.

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The factory have been set up to develop the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars daily which would have recently been an ambitious target below any circumstances. The rapid drop-off sought after for what at this time was the manufacturer's only passenger car model that followed the product quality issues plunged the organization into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty five million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in uncertainty, and Berliet was put in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% on the share capital, but was unable in order to all the company's creditors and the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the banking institutions. Berliet was nevertheless competent to retain operational control. During the ensuring few years, supported by a sustained recovery in demand that in turn reflected a simple yet 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 banking companies.

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