Brissonneau and Lotz
Brissonneau et Lotz is a former French group of heavy industry and manufacturers of locomotives, rolling stock and machine tools. The company was briefly engaged as a manufacturer of automobile bodies.
Company History
The company was established in 1878 from a reorganization of the company Brissonneau Frères (1841 ) for Société Brissonneau et Lotz in Nantes. Not until 1908 that it became a public limited company. At that time it was the steel processing, locomotive and wagon under production of refrigeration equipment and machine tools operate. In BL the diesel-electric drive for locomotives was developed.
Railways
Core business of BL was the construction of locomotives, railcars, trams and combinations for subways and supplied in addition to the Paris Métro also the subways of Lyon, Marseille, Brussels and Caracas.
Brissonneau et Lotz supplied diesel-electric locomotives BB Brissonneau family to the French state railway SNCF, and to Luxembourg ( CFL 850), Yugoslavia ( JZ 642 ) and Portugal (CP 1200). BL- railcars were used by local railways in France and Réunion and even exported to Madagascar.
Locomotives ( selection)
- BB 63000 and BB 63500
- BB 67000, BB 67200, BB 67300 and BB 67400
- 1200 Series of the state railway company of Portugal, Comboios de Portugal
- Shunting T4
Railcar, tram, metro combinations
BL presented railcars, trams and combinations for subways and supplied in addition to the Paris Métro also the subways of Lyon, Marseille, Brussels and Caracas.
Gallery
Train the VFD ( Voies ferrées du Dauphiné ) in the Vallee de la Romanche south of Grenoble (1964 )
Locomotive Brissonneau et Lotz of VFD in La Mure
Tram Brissonneau et Lotz Series 500 (1950) in Lille, terminus Rue Carnot, 1982
Motor vehicles
The company was a short time (1939-1940) active in the aircraft and entertained in Creil in the 1950s and 1960s, a factory for automobile bodies with design office. From 1955 to 1959, the only model in its own name, the Brissonneau 4 CV based on the Renault 4CV was born. The four-cylinder engine with 747 cc displacement and 21 hp was mounted in the rear and powered the rear wheels. The open body offered two to three people.
The automotive department in Creil was sold to Société des Usines Chausson 1959. After that, the Renault Floride was mounted for Renault. In 1967, the former Mercedes chief designer Paul Bracq Design Agency of Brissonneau et Lotz. Until 1970 he was responsible for various prototype designs as a roadster based on the BMW 1600 ti and a coupe that was based on the Simca 1100. He also worked on designs for the design of high-speed train TGV. Brissonneau et Lotz delivered in conjunction with the Société des usines Chausson, the bodies for the Opel GT.
Brissonneau et Lotz Marine
The specialist in the production of tons and ship cranes branch of the company, based in Carquefou was taken over by the U.S. NOV- Group, a supplier of the petroleum industry.
1972 ( now Alstom ) taken Brissonneau et Lotz from global energy and transport group GEC Alsthom.