Gangloff body shop
The body shop Gangloff AG is the main factory of Gangloff AG in Bern - Holligen which also in the fields of cable cars and railways - rolling operates. The body shop Gangloff AG is responsible for the business units commercial vehicle - trailer construction and auto body repair / painting / label. The company is currently domiciled at Freiburgstrasse 170 in Bern.
history
The company's roots go back to 1830 when the construction of carriages and components such as wheels and hubs began. In 1878 the carpentry business was formally registered in Geneva and in 1903 the bodywork Georges Gangloff emerged from it. This company has developed into a leading Swiss specialist car - bodies in individual and small series production with about 120 employees in 1914. As a result, several branch companies emerged:
- 1919: Gangloff body shop (Colmar) in Colmar ( Alsace , France )
- 1928: Branch in Bern
- 1929: Takeover of the C. & R. Geissberger body shop in Zurich and continued operation as a Gangloff branch
Simultaneously with the opening of the Bern branch, the headquarters were relocated to Bern. The plant in Colmar became independent from the parent company around 1930 and achieved world fame for its creations on Bugatti chassis. In the 1930s Gangloff suffered from the global economic crisis . After the insolvency of Georges Gangloff SA in 1936, a reorganization took place. Carrosserie de Sécheron emerged from the Geneva company and the branches were sold. The head office in Bern was taken over by Dr. R. von Muralt and initially organized it as Neue Carrosserie Gangloff AG . In addition to the traditional activity in the construction of car bodies (which never played the most important role in Bern) and commercial vehicle superstructures, the manufacture of cabins for funiculars had already begun in 1929. Since the 1970s, this area has been run as a separate corporate pillar, Gangloff Swiss Cabins .
Today the company is part of Gangloff AG as Gangloff Switzerland Trailers .
Buses and trolley buses
The body shop Gangloff AG became increasingly involved in the construction of bodies for travel - and buses (the latter also called trolley buses ), where they developed into a major supplier to the 1960s. In the course of increasing standardization in the construction of public transport vehicles in Switzerland, Gangloff gave up this area in the 1970s. However, superstructures for coaches still seem to have emerged for some time.
literature
- Ferdinand Hediger: Schweizer Carrossiers 1890-1970 , 1st edition 2013, SwissClassics Publishing AG, Bäch SZ (Switzerland); ISBN 978-3-9524171-0-2 , hardcover
Web links
- Official website
- coachbuild.com: Brief portrait of Carosseries Gangloff (accessed February 4, 2013)
- swisscarregister.ch: Georges Gangloff (accessed on November 15, 2016)
- swisscarregister.ch: C. & R. Geissberger (accessed on November 15, 2016)
- Catalog for the special exhibition Die Schweizer Carrossiers in the Pantheon Basel from October 27, 2013 - April 6, 2014 (accessed on January 8, 2014)
- Bonhams auctions: Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles Automobiles d'Exception , February 9, 2008: lot no. 168; Bugatti Type 57 Coach Gangloff, Chassis No. 57546 (English) (accessed February 4, 2013)
- Zwischengas.com: Swiss Car Register with Gangloff special show at OTM Friborg (English) (accessed on September 10, 2013)
- Bénédict Frommel: Société Anonyme des Ateliers de Sécheron. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . (accessed on January 8, 2014)
- GTÜ-Oldtimerservice: Gangloff Colmar (accessed on November 20, 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Phonebook entry
- ^ A b Bonhams Auctions: Paris Expo 2008 ; Lot 168; Bugatti T57 Coach Gangloff # 57546
- ↑ Zwischengas.com : Swiss Car Register with Gangloff special show at the OTM Friborg
- ↑ Catalog for the special exhibition The Swiss Carrossiers in the Pantheon Basel, p. 33 (Gangloff)
- ↑ Catalog for the special exhibition The Swiss Carrossiers in the Pantheon Basel, p. 111 (Sécheron)
- ↑ a b Hediger: Schweizer Carrossiers (2013) , p. 41