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

Ships

Mountain guns

Other artillery

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

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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