Gangloff (company)
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1928 |
| resolution | active |
| Seat | Bern - Holligen |
| management | Marc Pfister |
| Branch | Metal processing, service (body repairs for cars and trucks) |
| Website | www.gangloff.com |
The Gangloff AG is a medium-sized Swiss family business for the production of cable cars , railways - rolling stock , commercial vehicles - bodies and - followers . Located on the Freiburgstrasse 170 in Bern - Holligen domiciled company was formerly also a well-known supplier of structures for travel - and buses in the public transport , the latter also known as catenary vehicles . The company has its roots in a major Geneva-based body construction company , which manufactured special bodies for most of the leading European car brands .
history
Gangloff AG was founded in 1928 as a Bern branch of the Carrosserie Georges Gangloff in Geneva , one of the then most important Swiss manufacturers of individual and small-batch production of passenger car bodies. Just a year later, the first carriages for a funicular were built.
After the bankruptcy of the parent company in 1936, the Carrosserie de Sécheron SA (1936–1967) was created from its facilities in Geneva . The Bern branch was taken over by R. von Muralt and made independent as Neue Carrosserie Gangloff AG .
After the construction of individual car bodies in Switzerland in the wake of the global economic crisis had come to a virtual standstill, the focus was in addition to the aforementioned rolling stock for funicular railways on bodies for trolleybuses , buses and commercial vehicles and lorries - trailer construction . In the 1950s and 1960s Gangloff was one of the market leaders in this now abandoned area. The first cable car cabins were added in the 1970s . Today the Gangloff cabins go up the Zugerberg and the Niesen, for example . The Stanserhorn Railway also received the world's first convertible cable car.
A subsidiary founded by Georges Gangloff in France in 1919 achieved a high international reputation as Carrosserie Gangloff (Colmar) in the 1920s and 1930s with the construction of bodies for Bugatti sports cars. This company had already become independent in 1930 and existed until the 1960s.
Company structure
Today the company is divided into three areas.
Gangloff Switzerland Cabins
Gangloff Switzerland Cabins in Flums SG manufactures cabins for funicular and aerial cableways and railway rolling stock, which is used all over the world.
Cabin of the new Parsennbahn
The convertible cable car manufactured by Gangloff up to the Stanserhorn
One of the two gangloff cabins on the Urdenbahn between Arosa and Lenzerheide
Gangloff Switzerland Trailers
The body shop department emerged from the original branch and is the oldest part of the company. He works in the traditional field of manufacturing superstructures for commercial vehicles and trailers. The trade in used commercial vehicles is also located here.
Saurer 4H CT1D with Gangloff body of the Berner Verkehrsbetriebe (1941)
FBW EDU with Gangloff body of the Biel-Meinisberg bus company (1960) with 35 seats and 47 standing places
Gangloff trolleybus trailer from the STI transport company
Gangloff bodywork
Initially attached to the vehicle body, the department initially carried out body repairs on cars and trucks. The offer includes paintwork, special paintwork, lettering, window replacement and classic car restorations.
literature
- Ferdinand Hediger: Swiss Carrossiers 1890–1970. 1st edition. SwissClassics Publishing AG, Bäch SZ (Switzerland) 2013, ISBN 978-3-9524171-0-2 .
- Catalog for the special exhibition The Swiss Carrossiers. in the Pantheon Basel from October 27, 2013 - April 6, 2014.
- Ferdinand Hediger: Classic Cars 1919–1939. Hallwag-Verlag, Ostfildern 1998, ISBN 3-444-10348-4 .
- Roger Gloor: Post War Car. Passenger cars 1945–1960. Edited by Automobil Revue. 2nd Edition. Hallwag-Verlag, Bern / Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-444-10263-1 .
- Roger Gloor: Passenger Cars of the 1960s. 3. Edition. Hallwag-Verlag, Ostfildern 1998, ISBN 3-444-10307-7 .
Web links
- Homepage of Gangloff AG Bern (accessed on February 4, 2013)
- coachbuild.com: Brief portrait of Carosseries Gangloff (accessed February 4, 2013)
- swisscarregister.ch: Georges Gangloff (accessed on November 15, 2016)
- 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 (accessed on November 19, 2013)
- GTÜ-Oldtimerservice: Gangloff Colmar (accessed on November 20, 2013)
- Funicular ; Gurtenbahn, 1944 (accessed August 9, 2018)
- funimag.com: Une visite chez Gangloff, Berne (2202) (French) (accessed January 7, 2014)