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Berliet seemed to be a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military vehicles among other vehicles based in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from any five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it absolutely was put into 'administration sequestre' it turned out in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired simply by Renault in 1974 as well as merged with Saviem in a new Renault Trucks corporation in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his or her experiments with automobiles within 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 by way of twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over your plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to build four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and steel chassis frame was used as an alternative to 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 on the American Locomotive Company.

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Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a selection of models from 8 COMPREHENSIVE RESUME to 60 CV. The main models acquired four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc style (12 CV) seemed to be produced between 1910 as well as 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders simply.The First World War led to a massive increase popular. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the actual French army. The military orders placed major demands around the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturing plant space.In 1915 a 300 hectare site was bought between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest as a way to build a new main factory.The Berliet CBA grew to become the iconic truck within the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle the 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 ones were leaving the plant each day. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also generating 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 legal structure was deemed suitable. The company became the particular Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.Following your war the manufacturer reoriented portion of its production back for you to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess capacity, as the army was don't buying all the pickups the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded towards outbreak of peace by deciding to generate just a single form of truck and a single style of car, which represented a starting from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was this 5 ton CBA that had served the media so well during the actual war.

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The passenger car to become produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand at the 15th Paris Motor Present in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Kind VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was probably none to miss a tip: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to developing a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet copy was well received inside March 1919 when this had its first open outing, locally, at the Lyon Industry Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high along with the simple disc wheels were being large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the buying price of just 11, 800 francs in July 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure the steel used from the car's construction was in the same quality as the American steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for that early customers of the actual "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" at the rate of 100 cars every day which would have been recently an ambitious target underneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off widely used for what at this point was the manufacturer's simply passenger car model that followed the product quality issues plunged the small business into financial difficulties, with losses of 55 million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was placed 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 as well as the firm therefore fell into the hands of the banking institutions. Berliet was nevertheless able to retain operational control. During the ensuring few years, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able in order to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control over the business from the banking companies.

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