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Berliet was a French manufacturer involving automobiles, buses, trucks and military 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 was in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by means of Renault in 1974 along with merged with Saviem right new Renault Trucks company in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles inside 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 the honeycomb radiator and metallic chassis frame was used as opposed to wood. The next year, a model was launched that has been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driving licence for manufacturing his model to the American Locomotive Company.

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Ahead of World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 CV to 60 CV. The main models had 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) had been produced between 1910 as well as 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were manufactured upon individual orders just.The First World War resulted in a massive increase in demand. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the French army. The military orders placed major demands on the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment with production plant and manufacturing area space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was ordered between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest in order to build a new key factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck about the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 ton Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the particular French army. During 1916 40 of these were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also making shells and battle tanks presently. The number of individuals employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover experienced multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new legal structure was deemed proper. The company became your Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless discovered themselves with excess capacity, as the army was no more buying all the vans the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards the outbreak of peace by deciding to generate just a single kind of truck and a single sort of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck on which Berliet focused was the particular 5 ton CBA that had served the media so well during your war.

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The passenger car to be produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand with the 15th Paris Motor Demonstrate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Kind VB" of modern visual appeal. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a technique: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to creating a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and replicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet content was well received in March 1919 when the idea had its first open outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high along with the simple disc wheels ended up large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price of just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make certain the steel used in the car's construction was in the same quality as the American steel used for the particular Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for the early customers of your "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational destruction of the company.

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The factory ended up set up to develop the "Berliet Type VB" in the rate of 100 cars per day which would have also been an ambitious target under any circumstances. The rapid drop-off in demand for what at this stage was the manufacturer's simply passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the small business into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in hesitation, and Berliet was put in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% from the share capital, but was unable to repay all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell to the hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless able to retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected a highly effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control over the business from the banking companies.

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