Batignolles-Châtillon

In 1846, thanks to the support of bankers who had founded the Compagnie of the railroads of North, is installed with the Batignolles, avenue of Clichy, a limited partnership under the denomination of Ernest Gouin and Co, of the name of its founder. They are in the beginning a workshop mechanical engineering primarily intended to provide locomotive to vapor for the large railway companies.

Exceeding very quickly its initial vocation, this company launches out in the construction of metallic bridges in France, whose first is in 1852 that of Asnières-sur-Seine, then of railway lines in the world (1862, crossed the Pyrenees) and mainly in the colonial empire, finally in the realization of all kinds of public works.

Its rapid pleasing rise in 1871 its transformation into public limit company under the company name of Company of construction of Batignolles, name which it preserves until its fusion in 1968 with the Parisian Company for electric industry (SPIE) to give birth to SPIE-Batignolles. In 1928 it breaks definitively with its initial object by closing its workshops of the avenue of Clichy, of which it makes contribution with its subsidiary company, the general Company of construction of Batignolles-Châtillon engines.

The group

Companies of the group Company of construction of Batignolles :

  • Company of the regional railroads of the Rhone delta. Public limit company founded in 1882 having for object obtaining railway concessions in south-east. The Société of construction of Batignolles was the largest shareholder and the liquidator.

Chronology

  • In 1846 creation of the limited partnership Ernest Gouin and Co.

  • In 1871 transformation of the limited partnership Ernest Gouin and Co in public limit company under the company name of Company of construction of Batignolles.
  • In 1882 creation of the Company of the regional railroads of the Rhone delta (Company of construction of Batignolles). Public limit company founded in 1882 having for object obtaining railway concessions in south-east. The Société of construction of Batignolles was the largest shareholder and the liquidator.
  • In 1968 fine of the activities of the Company of construction of Batignolles.

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