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Berliet was a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military autos 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' ıt had been in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by means of Renault in 1974 along with merged with Saviem into a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles throughout 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were being followed in 1900 by way of a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte throughout Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and material chassis frame was used rather than wood. The next year, a model was launched that was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driving licence for manufacturing his model towards American Locomotive Company.

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Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a range of models from 8 CV to 60 CV. The main models got four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc design (12 CV) seemed to be produced between 1910 and 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were built upon individual orders only.The First World War concluded in a massive increase widely used. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands around the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturing facility space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new key factory.The Berliet CBA started to be the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entry at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 heap Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the particular French army. During 1916 40 advisors were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks right now. The number of staff employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the price of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed ideal. The company became this Société anonyme des Motor vehicles Marius Berliet.Following your war the manufacturer reoriented portion of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess volume, as the army was don't buying all the trucks the factory could develop, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single form of truck and a single style of car, which represented a leaving from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was this 5 ton CBA that had served the united states so well during the actual war.

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The passenger car to become produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand on the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern physical appearance. Marius Berliet was it's unlikely that any to miss a technique: rather than devote period and engineering talent to having a new car for the new decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet content was well received in March 1919 when the idea had its first public outing, locally, at the Lyon Deal Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels were being large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the cost of just 11, 800 francs in April 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make sure that the steel used from the car's construction was with the same quality as the United states steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of this "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational harm to the company.

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The factory were being set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars per day which would have been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off widely used for what at this time was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the product quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was placed 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 to the hands of the banking companies. Berliet was nevertheless in a position to retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 years, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected an effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to pay off his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control above the business from the banks.

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