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Berliet had been a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military motor vehicles among other vehicles located 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 also merged with Saviem right new Renault Trucks corporation in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started the experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by way of a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over your plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and metallic chassis frame was used rather then 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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Ahead of World War I, Berliet offered a array of models from 8 CV 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 manufactured upon individual orders just.The First World War triggered a massive increase sought after. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for your French army. The military orders placed major demands for the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment within production plant and factory space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new major factory.The Berliet CBA grew to become the iconic truck for the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entry at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 ton Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by your French army. During 1916 40 ones were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks right now. The number of staff employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover received multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed proper. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Cars Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented a part of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess ability, as the army was not buying all the vans the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to produce just a single form of truck and a single kind of car, which represented a leaving from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck on which Berliet focused was the actual 5 ton CBA that had served the nation so well during the actual war.

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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand at the 15th Paris Motor Show 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 period and engineering talent to possessing a new car for the brand new decade, he obtained and copied an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet content was well received with March 1919 when the item had its first general public outing, locally, at the Lyon Deal Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and also the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the buying price of just 11, 800 francs in April 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 for 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 make the "Berliet Type VB" in the rate of 100 cars each day which would have been recently an ambitious target beneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off widely used for what at this stage was the manufacturer's simply passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the enterprise into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in uncertainty, 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 the firm therefore fell into the hands of the finance institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected a powerful model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to pay off his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control on the business from the banks.

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