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Berliet ended up being a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military cars among other vehicles situated in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it turned out put into 'administration sequestre' it was in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired simply by Renault in 1974 as well as merged with Saviem in a new Renault Trucks corporation in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his / her experiments with automobiles within 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 inside Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured with a honeycomb radiator and aluminum chassis frame was used rather than 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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Prior 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 style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc model (12 CV) has been produced between 1910 and 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were produced upon individual orders only.The First World War concluded in a massive increase popular. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the French army. The military orders placed major demands for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturing plant space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new main factory.The Berliet CBA grew to become the iconic truck for the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle top 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 everyday. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also generating shells and battle tanks at the moment. The number of individuals employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the worth of annual turnover got multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new lawful structure was deemed appropriate. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Autos Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless observed themselves with excess capacity, as the army was no more buying all the vehicles the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to generate just a single type of truck and a single sort of car, which represented a leaving from his pre-war industry strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was the actual 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during your war.

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The passenger car to become produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand for the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Sort VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was not just one to miss a technique: rather than devote moment and engineering talent to developing a new car for the new decade, he obtained and ripped an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet backup was well received with March 1919 when that had its first open outing, locally, at the Lyon Deal Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high along with the simple disc wheels ended up large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price of just 11, 800 francs in April 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed in order that the steel used within the car's construction was on the same quality as the North american steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems with the 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 develop the "Berliet Type VB" with the rate of 100 cars every day which would have recently been an ambitious target beneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off sought after for what at this time was the manufacturer's merely passenger car model that followed the coffee quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of second there’s 55 million francs recorded in one year. Survival was in uncertainty, and Berliet was used in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% from the share capital, but was unable to repay all the company's creditors along with the firm therefore fell in the hands of the banking institutions. Berliet was nevertheless in a position to retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery successful 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 over the business from the banking companies.

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