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Berliet had been a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military motor vehicles among other vehicles within Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from the five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when ıt had been put into 'administration sequestre' it was in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired through Renault in 1974 along with merged with Saviem in a new Renault Trucks company in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started their experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were being followed in 1900 by the twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and aluminum 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 driver's licence for manufacturing his model for the American Locomotive Company.

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Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a selection of models from 8 CONTINUE to 60 CV. The main models acquired four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder model of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc type (12 CV) was produced between 1910 along with 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were created upon individual orders simply.The First World War triggered a massive increase popular. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the actual French army. The military orders placed major demands for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment inside production plant and manufacturing area space.In 1915 a 600 hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest in order to build a new main factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck for the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle top at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 great deal Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the French army. During 1916 40 of them were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also creating shells and battle tanks presently. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the worth of annual turnover experienced multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed suitable. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless observed themselves with excess capacity, as the army was will no longer buying all the trucks the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single form of truck and a single sort of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war marketplace strategy. The single truck on what Berliet focused was the actual 5 ton CBA that had served the world so well during your war.

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The passenger car for being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand at the 15th Paris Motor Demonstrate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Type VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a key: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to making a new car for the new decade, he obtained and duplicated 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 Buy and sell Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and the simple disc wheels had been large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the expense of just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure that the steel used in the car's construction was in the same quality as the Us steel used for this Dodge, and this resulted in series problems with the early customers of this "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational destruction of the company.

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The factory have been set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" in the rate of 100 cars per day which would have been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off in demand for what at this stage was the manufacturer's only passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the enterprise into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty-five million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in skepticism, and Berliet was put in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% with the share capital, but was unable in order to all the company's creditors and also the firm therefore fell into your hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring several years, supported by a sustained recovery in demand that in turn reflected a simple yet effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to settle his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control over the business from the finance institutions.

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