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Compagnie française de matériel de chemin de fer
IndustryRail transport engineering and construction
Founded6 November 1872[1]
Headquarters
Ivry-sur-Seine
,
France
ProductsCarriages, wagons, bridges[1]

The Compagnie française de matériel de chemin de fer (CFMCF) was a French manufacturer of rail equipment, headquartered in Ivry-sur-Seine, with a factory in Maubeuge.[1]

The company built rolling stock for the French railways and French colonies.

History

The company was founded in 1872, with a capital of 2,500,000 francs to utilise the works of the Société Charles Bonnefond et Cie. in Ivry-sur-Seine.[2]

In 1911 the company acquired the Tilleul works ("le Bois du Tilleul" founded 1844.[3]) in Maubeuge.[4][note 1] The factory closed in 1970.[6]

In 1919 CFMCF along with five others: the Forges et aciéries de la Marine et Homécourt, the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM), Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO), établissements Schneider, and the Société des forges de Châtillon-Commentry-Neuves-Maison founded a new company: the Compagnie générale de construction et d'entretien du matériel de chemin de fer (CGCEM) with a capital of 15 million francs; the new company's business was the repair and maintenance of railway vehicles, and had works in Nevers and Villefranche-sur-Saône serving the PLM, and at Saint-Pierre-des-Corps serving the PO.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ Part of the factory is now a historic monument, and has been converted to house the educational establishment lycée Notre-Dame du Tilleu.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Matériel de chemin de fer (Compagnie française de)", www.patronsdefrance.fr (in French), archived from the original on 2012-03-30, retrieved 2011-08-30
  2. ^ Revue historique de l'armée (in French), Ministère des armées, 1950, p. xviii
  3. ^ Jean-marie Allain (19 March 2005), Le territoire du val de Sambre (PDF) (in French)[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^ Proceedings - Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1922, pp. 958–9
  5. ^ "établissement administratif d'entreprise : bureaux de l'usine du Tilleul, actuellement lycée Notre-Dame du Tilleul", www.actuacity.com (in French), archived from the original on 2011-10-08, retrieved 2011-08-31
  6. ^ Odette Hardy-Hémery (2002), Trith-Saint-Léger du premier âge industriel à nos jours, Presses Univ. Septentrion, p. 46 (footnote 57), ISBN 9782859397685
  7. ^ Sources:


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