Société Industrielle de Moteurs Électriques et à Vapeur

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Société Industrielle de Moteurs Électriques et à Vapeur
legal form
founding 1890
resolution ?
Seat Le Havre
management Jean-Jacques Heilmann
Branch Locomotive and automobile manufacturers

"Fusée Electrique" from 1893
Steam-electric locomotive No. 8001 from 1897

The Société Industrielle de Moteurs Électriques et à Vapeur was a French manufacturer of automobiles and locomotives .

Company history

Jean-Jacques Heilmann founded the company in Le Havre in 1890 and began developing locomotives. In 1892 he presented the first autarkic steam-electric machine called “Fusée électrique” (electric rocket) , built by the Forges et chantiers de la Méditerranée . Their driving axles were moved by electric motors , which obtained their energy via a generator from a steam engine located on the locomotive . Each axis was also the shaft of one of the eight motors. This construction should improve the acceleration capacity and ensure a smoother run and thereby reduce the wear and tear on the locomotive and tracks. The vehicle, which was initially tested on a military training area in Normandy and then between Le Havre and Graville , attracted international attention.

In 1897 Heilmann presented a second locomotive built according to this principle, the “8001” in Paris . Since the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest did not want to take over the machine, the inventor sold his factory to the American company Westinghouse the following year .

Between 1897 and 1900, Jean-Jacques Heilmann also manufactured automobiles. The brand name was Heilmann .

Automobiles

The company manufactured hybrid electric vehicles. The vehicles were equipped with a two-cylinder engine and a dynamo and had front-wheel drive . Avant trains were also built around 1900 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Heilmann Lokomotiven  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ The Heilmann electric locomotive in: Scientific American, September 4, 1897, p. 152, accessed March 8, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Fonds Jean-Jacques Heilmann, ingénieur-électricien (1853–1922) at archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr, accessed on March 8, 2019