Brissonneau et Lotz

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Diesel railcar Brissonneau et Lotz series 7021 (1972–1973) of the Croatian Railways Hrvatske željeznice in Zagreb ( Croatia )
BB 907 of the Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois , 1988

Brissonneau and Lotz (BL) is a former French group of heavy industry and was producer of locomotives , railway cars and machine tools . For a short time, the company was active as a manufacturer of automobile bodies .

Company history

The company was founded in 1878 from a reorganization of the Brissonneau Frères company (1841) to become the Société Brissonneau et Lotz in Nantes . It only became a stock corporation in 1908. At that time she was active in steel processing, locomotive and wagon construction and the manufacture of cooling equipment and machine tools. The diesel-electric drive for locomotives was developed at BL .

Rail vehicles

BL's core business was the construction of locomotives, railcars , trams and underground trains.

Locomotives (selection)

Brissonneau et Lotz delivered diesel-electric locomotives of the BB Brissonneau family to the French state railway SNCF as well as to Luxembourg (CFL 850), Yugoslavia (JZ 642) and Portugal (CP 1200).

Railcars, trams, subway combinations

BL manufactured railcars , trams and combinations for underground trains and, in addition to the Métro Paris, also supplied the underground trains in Lyon , Marseille , Brussels and Caracas . BL railcars were used by local railways throughout France and Réunion and were even exported to Madagascar .

Motor vehicles

emblem

The company was active in aircraft construction for a short time (1939–1940) and had a car body factory with a design office in Creil in the 1950s and 1960s . From 1955 to 1959, the only model under its own name was built, the Brissonneau 4 CV based on the Renault 4CV . The four-cylinder engine with 747 cc displacement and 21 PS was mounted in the rear and drive to the rear wheels. The open body offered space for two to three people.

The automotive division in Creil was sold to the Société des Usines Chausson in 1959 . Then the Renault Floride was assembled for Renault . In 1967, the former Mercedes chief designer Paul Bracq came to the Brissonneau et Lotz design office. Until 1970 he was responsible for various prototype designs such as a roadster based on the BMW 1600 ti and a coupé based on the Simca 1100 . He also worked on drafts for the design of the TGV high-speed train . Brissonneau et Lotz, in conjunction with the Société des usines Chausson company, also supplied the bodies for the Opel GT .

  • Brissonneau from 1956

  • Brissonneau from 1957

  • Brissonneau from 1957

Brissonneau et Lotz Marine

The Carquefou- based branch of the company, which specializes in the manufacture of barrels and ship cranes, was taken over by the US NOV Group , a supplier to the oil industry .

In 1972 Brissonneau et Lotz was taken over by the global energy and transport group GEC Alsthom (now Alstom ).

Web links

Commons : Brissonneau et Lotz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Roger Gloor: Post-war car from 1945–1960. Hallwag Verlag, Bern and Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-444-10263-1 .
  • Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Caron: Guide de l'automobile française. Solar, Paris 1988, ISBN 2-263-01105-6 , (French)