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Berliet had been a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military autos among other vehicles based in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from some sort of five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it had been put into 'administration sequestre' it had been 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 throughout 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were being followed in 1900 by way of twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the particular plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to build four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of a honeycomb radiator and metal chassis frame was used rather then wood. The next year, a model was launched that was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the license for manufacturing his model towards the American Locomotive Company.

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Ahead of World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 CURRICULUM VITAE to 60 CV. The main models acquired four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc design (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were created upon individual orders only.The First World War resulted in a massive increase sought after. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands around the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so as to build a new major factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck about the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entrance at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 load Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the particular French army. During 1916 40 advisors were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also making shells and battle tanks right now. The number of staff employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the importance of annual turnover had multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed correct. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented part of its production back to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess volume, as the army was will no longer buying all the vans the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards the outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single kind of truck and a single form of car, which represented a starting from his pre-war marketplace strategy. The single truck 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 for being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand at the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Sort VB" of modern appearance. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a trick: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to having a new car for the modern decade, he obtained and replicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet copy was well received inside March 1919 when the item had its first open outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels had been large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price of just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure the steel used from the car's construction was from the same quality as the American steel used for the Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of the particular "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational injury to the company.

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The factory were being set up to produce the "Berliet Type VB" in the rate of 100 cars per day which would have also been an ambitious target underneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off widely used for what during this period was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the standard issues plunged the small business into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded in one year. Survival was in uncertainty, 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 along with the firm therefore fell into the hands of the banking institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 years, 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 over the business from the finance institutions.

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