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Berliet has been a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military automobiles among other vehicles located in 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 had been in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by means of Renault in 1974 as well as merged with Saviem into a new Renault Trucks firm in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started the experiments with automobiles throughout 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were being followed in 1900 by a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to create four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and metallic chassis frame was used as an alternative to wood. The next year, a model was launched that's similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the licence for manufacturing his model on the American Locomotive Company.

GALERIE DES AUTOBUS TOULONNAIS de 1935 à nos jours

Before World War I, Berliet offered a range of models from 8 COMPREHENSIVE RESUME to 60 CV. The main models got four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder style of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc design (12 CV) seemed to be produced between 1910 and also 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were manufactured upon individual orders just.The First World War concluded in a massive increase sought after. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for this French army. The military orders placed major demands within the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment inside production plant and manufacturing plant space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was bought between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest in order to build a new main factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck within the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entry at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 lot Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the particular French army. During 1916 40 ones were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also creating shells and battle tanks currently. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the importance of annual turnover experienced multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new authorized structure was deemed suitable. The company became the Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back for you to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess capacity, as the army was no longer buying all the trucks the factory could generate, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded to the outbreak of peace by deciding to make just a single form of truck and a single type of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war marketplace strategy. The single truck on which Berliet focused was this 5 ton CBA that had served the country so well during the particular war.

The passenger car being produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand in the 15th Paris Motor Show 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 technique: rather than devote moment and engineering talent to creating a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and replicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet duplicate was well received within March 1919 when that had its first general public outing, locally, at the Lyon Business Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels had been large, giving the car an enjoyable "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 that the steel used from the car's construction was of the same quality as the United states steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for that early customers of the actual "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational problems for the company.

GALERIE DES AUTOBUS TOULONNAIS de 1935 à nos jours

The factory was set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" for the rate of 100 cars each day which would have recently been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off sought after for what at this stage was the manufacturer's merely passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the organization into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty-five 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% in the share capital, but was unable to settle all the company's creditors along with the firm therefore fell to the hands of the finance institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery successful that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to pay off his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control above the business from the banking companies.

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