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Schneider-Creusot


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

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.

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.

Locomotive Schneider.030T

  • Schneider CA1, the first French tank

  • Schneider-Creusot 030-T steam locomotive

  • Schneider Coast Defense Train

  • Ferré-class submarines, a pair of 46-metre (151 ft) long submarines in service with the Peruvian Navy

  • Calypso (Q126), a Circé-class submarine

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • 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

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

  • Dirk Podevijn, S.A. Schneider: a giant of industry and finance. In: Hendrik Willem Ackermans. Notes of an industrial pioneer, 1887–1937. Antwerp, 2013.(ISBN:D/2013/012/55)

  • Lokomotive Schneider Creusot 1870

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