Berliet has been a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military autos among other vehicles situated in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from the five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it was put into 'administration sequestre' it turned out 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 into a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started the experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were followed in 1900 by way of a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over this plant of Audibert & Lavirotte with Lyon. Berliet started to develop four-cylinder automobiles featured by way of honeycomb radiator and metal 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 driving licence for manufacturing his model on the American Locomotive Company.
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Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a range of models from 8 CV to 60 CV. The main models acquired four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc model (12 CV) was produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders simply.The First World War led to a massive increase widely used. 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 in production plant and manufacturing facility space.In 1915 a four hundred hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest in order to build a new key factory.The Berliet CBA evolved into the iconic truck on the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle front 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 of which were leaving the plant everyday. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also generating shells and battle tanks right now. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover acquired multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed appropriate. The company became the Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented component of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless located themselves with excess ability, as the army was no more buying all the pickups the factory could make, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded to the outbreak of peace by deciding to generate just a single sort of truck and a single type of car, which represented a departure from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was the 5 ton CBA that had served the world so well during the actual war.
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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 overall look. Marius Berliet was it's unlikely that any to miss a key: rather than devote period and engineering talent to creating a new car for the brand new decade, he obtained and cloned an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet backup was well received with March 1919 when this had its first general public outing, locally, at the Lyon Deal Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels were being large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the cost of just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed in order that the steel used inside the car's construction was with the same quality as the United states steel used for this Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for that early customers of the "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational problems for the company.
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The factory was set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" on the rate of 100 cars per day which would have been recently an ambitious target below any circumstances. The rapid drop-off successful for what during this period was the manufacturer's simply passenger car model that followed the quality issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty-five million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was slipped into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% from the share capital, but was unable to pay off all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell in the hands of the banking institutions. Berliet was nevertheless in a position to retain operational control. During the ensuring few years, supported by a sustained recovery in demand that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control above the business from the finance institutions.
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