Ateliers des Charmilles SA
| Ateliers des Charmilles SA | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1921 |
| resolution | 1983 |
| Reason for dissolution | liquidation |
| Seat |
Geneva , Switzerland
|
| Branch | Mechanical engineering , power engineering |
The Ateliers des Charmilles SA was a Swiss company that was active in mechanical engineering. In 1921 it went from the bankruptcy estate of Ateliers Piccard-Pictet & Cie. and was liquidated in 1983.
history
After Piccard-Pictet became insolvent because of the automobile construction, the Swiss Bank Corporation - one of the main debtors of the collapsed company - looked for a way to limit the damage. Léopold Dubois, the then director of the bank association, set up the Ateliers des Charmilles SA as a rescue company , which was to continue the profitable and internationally renowned construction of water turbines . The management was entrusted to René Neeser, who had already headed the turbine construction of Piccard-Pictet.
In 1937 the Ateliers des Charmilles took over the financially troubled motorcycle and built-in engine manufacturer Motosacoche , followed in 1943 by Ateliers H. Cuénod, the first manufacturer of automatic oil burners and circulation pumps for central heating . From 1952 the construction of spark erosion machines began .
In Annemasse , France , Motosacoche operated a small assembly workshop for engines from 1935, which was incorporated into the Ateliers des Charmilles under the name Société des Equipements Charmilles . After the Second World War , Cuénod oil burners were installed instead of engines for the French market and the workshop was expanded into a factory. Later, the production and assembly of parts for railway air brakes was added.
The Groupe des Ateliers des Charmilles SA consisted of the parent company Ateliers des Charmilles SA and the subsidiaries Motosacoche and Société des Equipements Charmilles . The group jointly maintained the French subsidiary Moteurs MAG SA , which processed orders for the French market. The name MAG stands for M otosacoche A cacias G enève, whereby Acacias refers to the headquarters of Motosacoche in Route des Acacias 56 in Carouge .
Successor companies
The Ateliers des Charmilles SA were liquidated between 1981 and 1983. The water turbine construction went to Ateliers de constructions mécaniques de Vevey (ACMV), the engine construction went to Jean Gallay SA , the manufacture of oil burners went to the German company Klöckner , which shortly thereafter transferred its oil burner division to Elcotherm . Georg Fischer AG took over the eroding machines and renamed this department as Charmilles Technologies .
literature
- Charmilles (ed.): Turbines hydraulique . ( html - prospectus from the 1950s).
- P. Waldvogel: Le Groupe des Ateliers des Charmilles SA In: Bulletin technique de la Suisse romande . tape 89 , 1963, doi : 10.5169 / seals-66331 .
Web links
- Jean de Senarclens: Charmilles Technologies. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ P. Waldvogel, p. 211
- ^ Jean de Senarclens: Charmilles Technologies. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ P. Waldvogel, pp. 212-213
- ↑ Charmilles (ed.): Turbines hydraulique . S. 6–7 ( html - prospectus from the 1950s).
- ↑ Swiss Center for Trade Promotion: Directory of Swiss Manufacturers and Producers 1945, p. 837.