Schneider-Creusot

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.

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

Origins
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

Vehicles
Locomotive Schneider.030T
  • Schneider CA1, the first French tank
  • Schneider-Creusot 030-T steam locomotive
  • Schneider Coast Defense Train

Ships
  • French submarine Ferré, a 46-metre (151 ft) long submarine
  • Calypso (Q126), a Circé-class submarine

Mountain guns
  • 75 mm Schneider-Danglis 06/09 (named after Panagiotis Danglis)
  • Canon de 75 M(montagne) modele 1919 Schneider
  • Canon de 75 M(montagne) modele 1928
  • 76 mm mountain gun modèle 1909

Other artillery
  • Canet guns
  • Canon de 75 modèle 1897
  • Canon de 75 modèle 1905 Schneider
  • Canon de 75 modèle 1912 Schneider
  • Canon de 75 modèle 1914 Schneider
  • Canon anti-aérien de 75mm modèle 1939
  • Canon de 85 modèle 1927 Schneider
  • Canon de 105 modèle 1930 Schneider
  • 107 mm gun modèle 1910
  • 120 mm Schneider-Canet M1897 long gun
  • 122 mm howitzer modèle 1910
  • 152 mm howitzer modèle 1909
  • 152 mm howitzer modèle 1910
  • 152 mm siege gun modèle 1910
  • 155 mm Creusot Long Tom
  • Canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider
  • Canon de 194 mle GPF
  • Canon de 220 L mle 1917
  • Mortier de 220 modèle 1915/1916 Schneider
  • Mortier de 280 modèle 1914 Schneider

Schneider Trophy

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

See also
  • Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde, part of the Schneider group between 1882 and 1927
  • Somua, a truck manufacturer acquired by Schneider in 1914 and sold to Renault in 1955
  • De Wendel family, long-standing competitors of the Schneiders
  • Société Métallurgique de Normandie

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