Berliet was 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 new five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it had been put into 'administration sequestre' it turned out in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by means of Renault in 1974 and merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his or her experiments with automobiles within 1894. Some single-cylinder cars had been followed in 1900 by the twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the particular plant of Audibert & Lavirotte inside Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and metallic chassis frame was used as an alternative to wood. The next year, a model was launched that's similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driving licence for manufacturing his model to the American Locomotive Company.
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Ahead of World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 CURRICULUM VITAE to 60 CV. The main models had four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder model of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc design (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 along with 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders merely.The First World War concluded in a massive increase widely used. 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 throughout production plant and factory space.In 1915 a 300 hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so that you can build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA grew to be the iconic truck on 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 which were leaving the plant everyday. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also producing shells and battle tanks currently. The number of workers employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover had multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed correct. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess capacity, as the army was not buying all the trucks the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards outbreak of peace by deciding to generate just a single form of truck and a single form of car, which represented a departure from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck on what Berliet focused was your 5 ton CBA that had served the world so well during the particular war.
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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand in the 15th Paris Motor Demonstrate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern appearance. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a trick: rather than devote time period and engineering talent to possessing a new car for the newest decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet duplicate was well received within March 1919 when the idea had its first general public outing, locally, at the Lyon Business Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high plus the simple disc wheels had been large, giving the car a pleasing "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 within the car's construction was with the same quality as the Us steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of the "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational problems for the company.
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The factory had been set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" on the rate of 100 cars every day which would have already been an ambitious target underneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off in demand for what at this point was the manufacturer's solely passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the company into financial difficulties, with losses of second there’s 55 million francs recorded a single year. Survival was in uncertainty, and Berliet was used in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% with the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors and the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the banking companies. Berliet was nevertheless capable to retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery sought after that in turn reflected a highly effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to settle his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control in the business from the finance institutions.
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