Baudet Donon Roussel
| Baudet Donon Roussel (BDR) | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1924 |
| resolution | 1960 |
| Reason for dissolution | fusion |
| Seat |
Argenteuil , France
|
| Branch | Rail vehicle construction steel construction |
Établissements BAUDET-DONON-ROUSSEL (BDR) was a French steel and mechanical engineering company based in Argenteuil.
history
The Établissements Baudet Donon et Cie, founded in 1857, and the société Jules Roussel , founded in 1910, merged in 1924 and henceforth operated under the name of Établissements Baudet Donon Roussel (Etabl. Baudet, Donon et Roussel Argenteuil). The works were located directly at the station on the St Lazare – Pontoise line in Argenteuil at 2 place Aristide Briand, the administrative headquarters were in Paris, 139 rue Saussure, 17e. It is one of numerous companies in the metal industry as well as shipyards and aircraft yards (Dassault-Bréguet, Lorraine Dietrich, Donnêt-Leveque, Schreck) that settled on the banks of the Seine during industrialization . If the predecessor company Baudet Donon et Cie was an important company in bridge construction, the production of railway vehicles became a production focus of BDR. In 1960 the company merged with the Société des anciens Établissements Eiffel , which goes back to the founder Gustave Eiffel , and from then on carried the name Eiffel Baudet-Roussel constructions métalliques .
Products
Immediately after the company merged to form BDR, I involved the company between 1925 and 1927 in the construction of railcar trailers for the ETAT Z 1400 series on a Paris suburban railway. In the following years, the plant only participated in the following years in the construction of diesel railcars of other predecessor companies of the later state-owned French railway Société nationale des chemins de fer français ( SNCF ; German National Society of French Railways ) such as the ZZC 60 A 1 for the company du chemin de fer Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée (PLM) and ZZ 15 to ZZ 16 for the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord (Nord) from 1934.
Towards the end of the 1920s, the factory began to flourish with the increasing entry into the production of small locomotives ( locotracteur ) with internal combustion engines, which, thanks to their ease of use, began to replace steam locomotives in shunting work at railway stations and in industrial plants. Among other things, small series were supplied to ETAT and Nord, for example the machines that were later classified by SNCF as the Y 6020 and Y7020 .
Another field of activity in the 1930s was equipping the Maginot Line with freight elevators for the guns in the bunkers. The project to develop a medium-weight tank called the Char G1B remained unfinished .
After the war, the production of small locomotives was successfully continued and expanded. The prototypes of the SNCF Y 6000 series were followed by the 52 units of the SNCF Y 2100 series , which was supplied exclusively by BDR. BDR participated in larger numbers with almost sixty deliveries to the SNCF Y 6200 . A 90 hp industrial locomotive was also widespread, some of which have survived on museum railways. Larger designs and deliveries abroad, such as a 300 hp shunting locomotive for Vietnam, remained the exception.
The company was also an important supplier of elevators. Bridge construction remained a production line throughout the company's history, as evidenced today, for example, by the swing bridge in Le Grau-du-Roi, the Jaulgonne arch bridge from 1948 and the railway bridge at Châtellerault.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The symogih.org project: a modular system for managing historical information
- ↑ Ministère de la Culture, Paris
- ↑ Monuments du Monde at www.merveilles-du-monde.com
- ↑ http://www.sncf.com/fr/mentions-legales , accessed on November 19, 2017.
- ↑ List of autorails PLM - Baudet-Donon-Roussel (BDR) at wikiplm.railsdautrefois.fr
- ↑ Le CONI'FER at coni-fer.com
- ^ Locomotives et trains du Nord at www.cparama.com
- ↑ Les autorails BDR at picasso.superforum.fr
- ↑ Les locotracteurs de l'Etat L. Fournier
- ↑ Le wiki de la ligne Maginot - Baudet Donon Roussel (BDR)
- ↑ Model of the BDR G1 B at wiki.wargaming.net
- ↑ Christopher Hespel: des trains du Sud-Ouest - List of the Y 2100
- ↑ Christopher Hespel: des trains du Sud-Ouest - List of the Y 6200
- ↑ BDR locomotives in and around Luxembourg on rail.lu
- ^ David Gurnett: Railways in Vietnam
- ↑ Jaulgonne arch bridge (1948) at structurae.de
- ↑ Viaduc ferroviaire aval de Châtellerault (1954) at structurae.de