Decauville plant in Marquette-lez-Lille
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The Decauville plant in Marquette-lez-Lille , which manufactured locomotives and construction equipment , was one of the four Decauville plants in operation from 1923 to 1968 for a little less than half a century.
history
The Decauville plant opened not far from the Massey Ferguson plant in Marquette in 1923 . It was one of four Decauville factories , alongside the factories in Corbeil-Essonnes , Aulnay-sous-Bois and Moulins (Allier) . The locational advantages were the availability of an extensive area and good accessibility for steel and iron via numerous railway lines. The Deûle Canal was not used because the metal came from Lorraine by rail .
In 1954, Decauville employed 400 people in Marquette and in 1958 even 500 people. The site covered more than 80,000 m² (8 ha), including 18,000 m² in buildings, with good expansion options.
Instead of riveted products, welded products were increasingly made. On the site were among other shunting locomotives and commercial vehicles and construction and mining equipment such as forklifts, dump trucks, wheel loaders and portable compressors mounted. Half of the production was exported.
In the late 1950s, the changing market caused financial difficulties for the Decauville Group and a new direction was taken in Marquette. The activity of the northern location was to be revived by signing an agreement with a German company for the realization of large construction equipment. The Franco-German agreement came into force in 1963. Five years later, in the summer of 1968, the closure of the plant was announced, 45 years after it opened.
Some local companies then tried to invest in the premises, but their activities were unsustainable.
Individual evidence
- ↑ L'Historie de Marquette lez Lille.
- ^ Marquette-lez-Lille.
- ↑ Decauville TE90.
- ↑ Marquette: La fermeture of Ets Decauville.
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 20.5 ″ N , 3 ° 3 ′ 32.6 ″ E