Schneider-Creusot

Schneider et Compagnie, also known as Schneider-Creusot for its birthplace in the French town of Le Creusot, was a historic iron and steel-mill company which became a major arms manufacturer. In the 1960s, it was taken over by the Belgian Empain group and merged with it in 1969 to form Empain-Schneider, which in 1980 was renamed Schneider SA and in 1999, after much restructuring, Schneider Electric.

Building at 42, rue d'Anjou in Paris, built in 1899 on a design by Ernest-Paul Sanson, head office of Schneider et Compagnie from 1900 to the late 1940s; now head office of Banque Palatine

Origins

Eugène Schneider (1805–1875)

A Schneider-Creusot 030-T steam locomotive

Former manufacturing facility of Le Matériel Electrique Schneider-Westinghouse in Champagne-sur-Seine

Creusot steam hammer

In 1836, Adolphe Schneider and his brother Eugène Schneider bought iron-ore mines and forges at Le Creusot (Saône-et-Loire). They developed a business dealing in steel, railways, armaments, and shipbuilding.

The Creusot steam hammer was built in 1877.

Somua, a subsidiary located near Paris, made machinery and vehicles, including the SOMUA S35 tank.

Armaments

Vehicles

Locomotive Schneider.030T

• Schneider CA1, the first French tank
• Schneider-Creusot 030-T steam locomotive
• Schneider Coast Defense Train

Ships

• French submarine Ferré, a 46-metre (151 ft) long submarine
• Calypso (Q126), a Circé-class submarine

Mountain guns

• 75 mm Schneider-Danglis 06/09 (named after Panagiotis Danglis)
• Canon de 75 M(montagne) modele 1919 Schneider
• Canon de 75 M(montagne) modele 1928
• 76 mm mountain gun modèle 1909

Other artillery

• Canet guns
• Canon de 75 modèle 1897
• Canon de 75 modèle 1905 Schneider
• Canon de 75 modèle 1912 Schneider
• Canon de 75 modèle 1914 Schneider
• Canon anti-aérien de 75mm modèle 1939
• Canon de 85 modèle 1927 Schneider
• Canon de 105 modèle 1930 Schneider
• 107 mm gun modèle 1910
• 120 mm Schneider-Canet M1897 long gun
• 122 mm howitzer modèle 1910
• 152 mm howitzer modèle 1909
• 152 mm howitzer modèle 1910
• 152 mm siege gun modèle 1910
• 155 mm Creusot Long Tom
• Canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider
• Canon de 194 mle GPF
• Canon de 220 L mle 1917
• Mortier de 220 modèle 1915/1916 Schneider
• Mortier de 280 modèle 1914 Schneider

Schneider Trophy

Starting in 1911, Jacques Schneider offered the Schneider Trophy. It was a competition for seaplanes, with a large and prestigious prize.

See also

• Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde, part of the Schneider group between 1882 and 1927
• Somua, a truck manufacturer acquired by Schneider in 1914 and sold to Renault in 1955
• De Wendel family, long-standing competitors of the Schneiders
• Société Métallurgique de Normandie

Further reading

• Grant, Jonathan A. Grant, Between Depression and Disarmament: The International Armaments Business, 1919-1939 (Cambridge UP, 2018). Online review

External links

• Lokomotive Schneider Creusot 1870