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Berliet has 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 a new five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it turned out put into 'administration sequestre' it turned out in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired through Renault in 1974 as well as merged with Saviem into a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his / her experiments with automobiles in 1894. Some single-cylinder cars have been followed in 1900 by a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over this plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of a honeycomb radiator and metallic chassis frame was used instead of wood. The next year, a model was launched that had been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the license for manufacturing his model towards American Locomotive Company.

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Just before World War I, Berliet offered a array of models from 8 CONTINUE to 60 CV. The main models got four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder model of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc style (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were created upon individual orders just.The First World War generated 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 throughout production plant and manufacturing area space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was purchased between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA grew to be the iconic truck around the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entrance at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 lot Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the French army. During 1916 40 of these were leaving the plant everyday. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also making shells and battle tanks presently. The number of workers employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover had multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed ideal. The company became this Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented a part of its production back to help passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess ability, as the army was no more buying all the pickups the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to produce just a single style of truck and a single sort of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck on what Berliet focused was the 5 ton CBA that had served the world so well during the war.

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The passenger car to be 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 visual appeal. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a trick: rather than devote period and engineering talent to making a new car for the brand new decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet duplicate was well received inside March 1919 when the idea had its first open public 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 an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the expense of just 11, 800 francs in Oct 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed in order that the steel used from the car's construction was of the same quality as the United states steel used for this Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of your "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational harm to the company.

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The factory had been set up to generate the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars every day which would have already been an ambitious target below any circumstances. The rapid drop-off successful for what at this stage was the manufacturer's merely passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the enterprise into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty-five million francs recorded in one year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was slipped into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% on the share capital, but was unable to pay off all the company's creditors and also the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the finance institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring several years, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected an effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to repay his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control above the business from the financial institutions.

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