Schneider-Creusot

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Building at 42, rue d'Anjou in Paris, built in 1899 on a design by Ernest-Paul Sanson, head office of Schneider et Compagnie from 1900 to the late 1940s;[1][2] now head office of Banque Palatine

Schneider et Compagnie, also known as Schneider-Creusot for its birthplace in the french town of Le Creusot, was a historic French iron and steel-mill company which became a major arms manufacturer. In the 1960s, it was taken over by the Belgian Empain group and merged with it in 1969 to form Empain-Schneider, which in 1980 was renamed Schneider SA and in 1999, after much restructuring, Schneider Electric.

Origins[edit]

Eugène Schneider (1805–1875)
A Schneider-Creusot 030-T steam locomotive
Former manufacturing facility of Le Matériel Electrique Schneider-Westinghouse in Champagne-sur-Seine
Creusot steam hammer

In 1836, Adolphe Schneider and his brother Eugène Schneider bought iron-ore mines and forges at Le Creusot (Saône-et-Loire). They developed a business dealing in steel, railways, armaments, and shipbuilding.[3]

The Creusot steam hammer was built in 1877.

Somua, a subsidiary located near Paris, made machinery and vehicles, including the SOMUA S35 tank.

Armaments[edit]

Vehicles[edit]

Locomotive Schneider.030T

Ships[edit]

Mountain guns[edit]

Other artillery[edit]

Schneider Trophy[edit]

Starting in 1911, Jacques Schneider offered the Schneider Trophy. It was a competition for seaplanes, with a large and prestigious prize.

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Schneider et Cie". Bibliothèque nationale de France.
  2. ^ Laurent Dingli (November 2020). "Schneider : de l'exode à la collaboration (été 1940)". Le Site de Louis Renaut.
  3. ^ "About us". Schneider Electric. Retrieved 21 January 2013.

Further reading[edit]

  • Grant, Jonathan A. Grant, Between Depression and Disarmament: The International Armaments Business, 1919-1939 (Cambridge UP, 2018). Online review

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