Berliet was a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military automobiles among other vehicles within Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from the five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it turned out 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 in addition to merged with Saviem into a new Renault Trucks business in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started the experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars ended up followed in 1900 with a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over your plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to construct four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and metallic chassis frame was used rather than wood. The next year, a model was launched that had been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the licence for manufacturing his model towards the American Locomotive Company.
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Previous to World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 CURRICULUM VITAE to 60 CV. The main models got four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc model (12 CV) ended up being produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were built upon individual orders merely.The First World War generated a massive increase in demand. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for your French army. The military orders placed major demands within the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment within production plant and manufacturing plant space.In 1915 a 300 hectare site was bought between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new major factory.The Berliet CBA grew to be the iconic truck within 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 this French army. During 1916 40 of them were leaving the plant everyday. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also producing shells and battle tanks at this time. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the importance of annual turnover got multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed appropriate. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess potential, as the army was no more buying all the pickup trucks the factory could create, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded to the outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single style of truck and a single style of car, which represented a travel from his pre-war market place strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was your 5 ton CBA that had served the united states so well during your war.
The passenger car to be produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand for the 15th Paris Motor Indicate 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 trick: rather than devote moment and engineering talent to creating a new car for the new decade, he obtained and replicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet copy was well received throughout March 1919 when the item had its first community outing, locally, at the Lyon Industry Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and also the simple disc wheels were being 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 inside car's construction was on the same quality as the American steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of the particular "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational damage to the company.
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The factory were being set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" with the rate of 100 cars on a daily basis which would have also been an ambitious target within any circumstances. The rapid drop-off widely used for what during this period was the manufacturer's solely passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the enterprise into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty five million francs recorded in a year. Survival was in question, and Berliet was put into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% of the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors and the firm therefore fell in the hands of the banking companies. Berliet was nevertheless competent to retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 years, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected a simple yet effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to settle his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control on the business from the finance institutions.
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