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Berliet has been a French manufacturer involving automobiles, buses, trucks and military motor vehicles among other vehicles within Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it had been 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 along with merged with Saviem into a new Renault Trucks company in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started their experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars have been followed in 1900 by way of twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the actual plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to build four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of a honeycomb radiator and aluminum chassis frame was used instead of wood. The next year, a model was launched that has been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driving licence for manufacturing his model for the American Locomotive Company.

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Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 CURRICULUM VITAE to 60 CV. The main models got four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc style (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 and also 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were produced upon individual orders just.The First World War concluded in a massive increase successful. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the actual French army. The military orders placed major demands about the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment in production plant and manufacturing facility space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new major factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck about the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle the front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 load Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the French army. During 1916 40 of these were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also creating shells and battle tanks right now. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the importance of annual turnover acquired multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new legal structure was deemed appropriate. The company became the Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess potential, as the army was don't buying all the pickup trucks the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards the outbreak of peace by deciding to make just a single sort of truck and a single kind of car, which represented a starting from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was this 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during the particular war.

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The passenger car for being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand with the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Kind VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was not just one to miss a tip: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to developing a new car for the brand new decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet copy was well received within March 1919 when the idea had its first public outing, locally, at the Lyon Industry Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high plus the simple disc wheels ended up large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price of just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed in order that the steel used inside the car's construction was with the same quality as the North american steel used for the Dodge, and this resulted in series problems with the early customers of the particular "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational harm to the company.

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The factory ended up set up to develop the "Berliet Type VB" with the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have also been an ambitious target beneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off successful for what at this time was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the standard issues plunged the enterprise into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in hesitation, and Berliet was used in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% from the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors plus the firm therefore fell in the hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless competent to retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 years, supported by a sustained recovery in demand 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 financial institutions.

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