Usines Pétolat, Dijon
The Usines Pétolat, Dijon featured rail vehicles and construction machinery forth, especially for field and narrow-gauge railways for mining.
history
The factory was founded in 1884 by Alfred Pétolat (1849–1916) on avenue de Stalingrad in Dijon .
During the First World War it manufactured 500 cars a year. In the post-war period (1927) it had 435 employees.
In 1958, the Pétolat company merged with the Etablissements Boilot SA from Puteaux to manufacture Boilot-Pétolat construction cranes. The company was eventually taken over by the Paris company Manubat with its 305 employees.
Products
In the 1920s and 1930s, light rail tracks and accessories, switches, wagons made of wood and metal, tipping trucks, steam and diesel locomotives, stone crushers, mixers, concrete mixers and pumps were manufactured.
Steam locomotives
Diesel locomotives
Tilting lorries
Flat railway wagons
Passenger cars
Unloaders for mining hunt
Former locations
- 32, avenue de Stalingrad , where later Erhel Hydris was
- 71, Avenue du Drapeau , where the Collège Gaston Roupnel is now
Web links
- Matériel Petolat: Train touristique des Lavières
- Steamroller
- Turntable in the Citadelle de Verdun
- Listed diesel locomotive at the Train Touristique des Lavières and a listed turntable at the Tuilerie et Briqueterie Janicot in Montureux-et-Prantigny
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Usine Petolat Père & fils.
- ↑ Boilot-Pétolat
- ^ Jean Gerbault: Le développement industriel de l'agglomération dijonnaise. In: Annales de geographie, 1971. p. 536.
- ^ Marc André Dubout: Le locotracteur Pétolat du Petit Train de la Sainte Victoire.
- ↑ Les wagon nets à pierres et leur traction.
Coordinates: 47 ° 20 '32.3 " N , 5 ° 3' 21.2" E