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Berliet has been a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military autos 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 turned out in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 along with merged with Saviem into 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 a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured by a honeycomb radiator and steel chassis frame was used as an alternative to wood. The next year, a model was launched that had been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driving licence for manufacturing his model towards the American Locomotive Company.

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Before World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 RESUME to 60 CV. The main models experienced four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder model of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc product (12 CV) was produced between 1910 as well as 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were created upon individual orders simply.The First World War triggered a massive increase successful. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the actual French army. The military orders placed major demands within 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 in order to build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA grew to become the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 great deal Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by your French army. During 1916 40 of them were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks currently. The number of individuals employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed appropriate. The company became your Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back for you to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless observed themselves with excess capacity, as the army was don't buying all the vehicles the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards outbreak of peace by deciding to make just a single form of truck and a single type of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was the actual 5 ton CBA that had served the united states so well during the particular war.

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The passenger car for being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand on the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Variety VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was not one to miss a technique: rather than devote time period and engineering talent to having a new car for the modern decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet copy was well received within March 1919 when this had its first community outing, locally, at the Lyon Business 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 expense of just 11, 800 francs in Oct 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure the steel used in the car's construction was on the same quality as the North american steel used for the particular Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of your "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational injury to the company.

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The factory were being set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" on the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have been recently an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off widely used for what at this time was the manufacturer's only passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was placed in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% of the share capital, but was unable in order to all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell to the hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless competent to retain operational control. During the ensuring ten years, supported by a sustained recovery successful that in turn reflected a simple yet effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control above the business from the banks.

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