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Berliet seemed to be a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military motor vehicles among other vehicles operating out of Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from any five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when ıt had been 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 in addition to merged with Saviem in to a new Renault Trucks business in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by the twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the particular plant of Audibert & Lavirotte throughout Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and aluminum chassis frame was used instead of wood. The next year, a model was launched which was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driving licence for manufacturing his model towards American Locomotive Company.

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Just before World War I, Berliet offered a range of models from 8 COMPREHENSIVE RESUME to 60 CV. The main models received four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder model of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc product (12 CV) was produced between 1910 along with 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were manufactured upon individual orders solely.The First World War resulted in a massive increase in demand. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the particular French army. The military orders placed major demands within the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and factory space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA grew to be the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entry at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 heap Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by this French army. During 1916 40 ones were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also producing shells and battle tanks presently. The number of employees employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover acquired multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed suitable. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.Following your war the manufacturer reoriented portion of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless observed themselves with excess ability, as the army was not buying all the pickup trucks the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to generate just a single type of truck and a single sort of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was the actual 5 ton CBA that had served the country so well during this war.

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The passenger car to get produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand at the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Variety VB" of modern visual appeal. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a trick: rather than devote time period and engineering talent to possessing a new car for the brand new decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was famously robust, and the Berliet replicate was well received within March 1919 when it had its first open outing, locally, at the Lyon Deal Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and the simple disc wheels were being large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the buying price of just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed in order that the steel used from the car's construction was with the same quality as the North american steel used for the Dodge, and this resulted in series problems to the early customers of this "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational problems for the company.

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The factory were being set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" in the rate of 100 cars every day which would have recently been an ambitious target below any circumstances. The rapid drop-off in demand for what at this stage was the manufacturer's merely passenger car model that followed the standard issues plunged the small business into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty five million francs recorded available as one year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was put into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% from the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors and the firm therefore fell into your hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless capable to retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 years, supported by a sustained recovery in demand that in turn reflected a powerful model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to settle his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control over the business from the banking institutions.

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