Carel & Fouché

Establishments Carel Fouché & Cie.
legal form	Corporation
founding	1904
resolution	1989
Reason for dissolution	Takeover by Alstom
Seat	Paris , France
Branch	Mechanical engineering , vehicle construction

Establishments Carel Fouché & Cie. , often just called Carel & Fouché or Carel , was a French engineering and vehicle construction group based in Paris .

history

Advert from 1929

The company was initially active in the timber trade and mainly supplied railway sleepers and telephone poles . In 1880, Jules Carel founded a factory in Le Mans to build vehicles for narrow-gauge local railways . The company grew rapidly, so that from 1890 onwards it was possible to bid in all tenders for passenger coaches , freight cars and locomotives . The products could also be exported to Indochina , Madagascar , Spain , Italy , Greece and the Antilles . At the turn of the century the company traded as Carel aîné, Fouché & Cie .

In 1904, Jules Carel and Ernest Fouché founded Etablissements Carel Fouché & Cie. , which specialized in the manufacture of railroad cars .

In 1919 the sleeper and telephone pole business was transferred to the company Carel, Fauché & Cie. - L.Bringer outsourced, in which the contractor Louis Bringer participated. The company used the wood protection process of pressure impregnation with creosote for its products . It was later called SARL Le Poteau Moderne and in 1960 became the Société Nouvelle des Etablissements Bringer .

In 1927 the company had over 10,000 employees, half of the capital belonged to the investor André Vincent. From the 1930s, Carel Fouché manufactured Michelin railcars and car bodies. In 1935 the company owed more than 30 million francs and had to be restructured by the Banque nationale de Crédit (BNC), a predecessor of BNP Paribas .

In 1935, the company acquired a license to manufacture passenger coaches using the Budd process. With this type of construction, rustproof sheets , French acier inoxydable, are joined together with spot welding to form load-bearing structures. The resulting car bodies did not need any painting for corrosion protection. According to the material used, these vehicles are usually referred to as Inox cars . In 1949, BNC, the main creditor of Carel & Fouché, sold part of the company's shares to Budd, so that the American company had a direct stake in the company.

Fighter planes built during World War II. In 1949 the Societe des Ateliers des Deux-Synthe , which manufactured inland vessels near Dunkirk, was taken over . Later, Carel Fouché diversified in the direction of crane systems and passenger boarding bridges . From 1966 the company was a subcontractor of Jeumont-Schneider and in this function produced car bodies for the New York City Subway . The contractual relationship remained in place until the plant was closed.

In 1968 the company merged with Soudure Electrique Languepin , a leading manufacturer of resistance welding machines - the company's new name was Carel Fouché Languepin . The company headquarters were relocated to Aubevoye in 1980 . The company now also manufactured bioreactors and waste incineration plants.

Carel Focuhé's railway vehicle construction was taken over by GEC - Alstom , which also took over the railway business from Jeumont-Schneider . In 1985 the company Carel Fouché Industrie (CFI), headquartered in La Défense , made about 80% of its turnover in the railway sector. At that time it had 1,500 employees and was dissolved in 1989.

Locations

Carel & Fouché was active in several locations:

Le Mans - founded in 1880, the oldest factory of Carel Fouché, building railway vehicles, one of the most important employers in the Sarthe department in the 1930s , the factory premises in the Miroir district covered 6.5 hectares and employed up to 900 people, closed in 1988
Aubevoye - construction of railway vehicles, also head office from 1980, closed in 1989
Deux-Synthes near Dunkirk - from 1932 to 1960 construction of inland waterways, factory of the Societe des Ateliers des Deux-Synthe , which was taken over in 1949 , 40 hectare factory site with workers' settlement, closed in 1971

Factory in Aubevoye around 1930

Wood processing

The following locations dealt exclusively with wood processing and were merged into Carel, Fauché & Cie. - brought in L.Bringer .

Entressen at Istres - sleeper factory
Dieppe - sleeper factory
Mérignac - sleeper factory
Motérolier-Buchy - sleeper factory
Sarlièvre-Cournon - sleeper factory
Thourotte - sleeper factory
Beaumont-le-Roger - sleeper factory
Blois - telephone poles
Brioude - sleeper factory

Manufacture of telephone poles in Blois by L. Bringer
Sleeper factory in Thourotte

Products

Branch line railcar from De Dion-Bouton with car body from Carel Fouché & Cie
Inox trolley

literature

James Labbé: Carel et Fouché: l'usine qui ne voulait pas disparaître . ITF, 2007, ISBN 2-9520713-3-0 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Ets Carel Fouche Construction Materiel Roulant Wagons. 1926, Retrieved October 27, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b Carel, Fouché & Compagnie (Etablissements). symogih.org, accessed October 27, 2018 (French).
↑ Histoire de Notre Quartier. In: Gazette Mérignac Bordeaux. April 2013, p. 5 , accessed on October 26, 2018 (French).
^ Jean Vigouroux: Le mystérieux Monsieur Vincent. November 23, 2013, accessed October 26, 2018 (French).
↑ Materiel Roulant Carel Fouche (advertising). In: eBay. 1929, Retrieved October 27, 2018 .
^ ^A ^b Banque nationale de Crédit (BNC). Archives nationales du monde du travail, p. 34 , accessed on October 27, 2018 (French).
^ Jeumont Industry. Archives nationales du monde du travail, p. 15 , accessed on October 27, 2018 (French).
^ J. Coombs: Biomass: International Directory of Companies, Products, Processes & Equipment . Springer, 1986, ISBN 978-1-349-08012-0 ( google.de [accessed October 27, 2018]).
^ Klaus Knothe, Sebastian Stichel: Rail Vehicle Dynamics . Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-45376-7 , pp. 12 ( google.de [accessed October 27, 2018]).
↑ Aubevoye: 92 emplois perdus avec la fermeture de Drakka-Pari Cable . July 30, 2014 ( actu.fr [accessed October 27, 2018]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Union des chambres de commerce maritimes et des ports français, Association des grands ports français: Ports de France: Édité sous le haut patronage de l'Union des chambres de commerce maritimes et des ports français et de l'Association des grands ports français . Etablissements Braun, 1956 ( google.de [accessed October 27, 2018]).

[:0-1] Ets Carel Fouche Construction Materiel Roulant Wagons. 1926, Retrieved October 27, 2018 .

[:1-2] Carel, Fouché & Compagnie (Etablissements). symogih.org, accessed October 27, 2018 (French).

[3] Histoire de Notre Quartier. In: Gazette Mérignac Bordeaux. April 2013, p. 5 , accessed on October 26, 2018 (French).

[4] Jean Vigouroux: Le mystérieux Monsieur Vincent. November 23, 2013, accessed October 26, 2018 (French).

[5] Materiel Roulant Carel Fouche (advertising). In: eBay. 1929, Retrieved October 27, 2018 .

[:2-6] A ^b Banque nationale de Crédit (BNC). Archives nationales du monde du travail, p. 34 , accessed on October 27, 2018 (French).

[7] Jeumont Industry. Archives nationales du monde du travail, p. 15 , accessed on October 27, 2018 (French).

[8] J. Coombs: Biomass: International Directory of Companies, Products, Processes & Equipment . Springer, 1986, ISBN 978-1-349-08012-0 ( google.de [accessed October 27, 2018]).

[9] Klaus Knothe, Sebastian Stichel: Rail Vehicle Dynamics . Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-45376-7 , pp. 12 ( google.de [accessed October 27, 2018]).

[10] Aubevoye: 92 emplois perdus avec la fermeture de Drakka-Pari Cable . July 30, 2014 ( actu.fr [accessed October 27, 2018]).

[:3-11] Union des chambres de commerce maritimes et des ports français, Association des grands ports français: Ports de France: Édité sous le haut patronage de l'Union des chambres de commerce maritimes et des ports français et de l'Association des grands ports français . Etablissements Braun, 1956 ( google.de [accessed October 27, 2018]).