Schneider et Cie, also known as Schneider-Creusot for its birthplace in the French town of Le Creusot, was a historic French 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 Empain-Schneider was a Franco-Belgian industrial group formed in the 1960s from the merger of Belgium's Empain group and France's Schneider & Cie. In 1980 it was renamed Schneider SA. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the group was comprehensively res ...

, which in 1980 was renamed Schneider SA and in 1999, after much restructuring, Schneider Electric.

Origins

In 1836, Adolphe Schneider and his brother Eugène Schneider bought iron-ore mines and forges around Le Creusot (

Saône-et-Loire Saône-et-Loire (; Arpitan: ''Sona-et-Lêre'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the rivers Saône and Loire, between which it lies, in the country's central-eastern part. Saône-et-Loire is Bo ...

). They developed a business dealing in steel, railways, armaments, and shipbuilding. The

Creusot steam hammer The Creusot steam hammer is a giant steam hammer built in 1877 by Schneider and Co. in the French industrial town of Le Creusot. With the ability to deliver a blow of up to 100 tons, the Creusot hammer was the most powerful in the world until 18 ...

was built in 1877. Somua, a subsidiary located near Paris, made machinery and vehicles, including the SOMUA S35 tank.

Armaments

Vehicles

Schneider CA1 The Schneider CA 1 (originally named the Schneider CA) was the first French tank, developed during the First World War. The Schneider was inspired by the need to overcome the stalemate of trench warfare which on the Western Front prevailed durin ...

, the first French

tank A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and good battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engin ...

*''Ferré'', a 46-meter long submarine *Schneider-Creusot 030-T steam locomotive *

Schneider Coast Defense Train Schneider may refer to: Hospital * Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel People *Schneider (surname) Companies and organizations * G. Schneider & Sohn, a Bavarian brewery company * Schneider Rundfunkwerke AG, the former owner of the ...

Mountain guns

75 mm Schneider-Danglis 06/09 The 75 mm Schneider-Danglis 06/09 ( el, πυροβόλο Σνάιντερ-Δαγκλή) was a Greek-designed and French-manufactured mountain gun. The invention of a mountain gun that could easily be broken down to pieces for transport, and ...

(named after

Panagiotis Danglis Panagiotis Danglis ( el, Παναγιώτης Δαγκλής; – 9 March 1924) was a Greek Army general and politician. He is particularly notable for his invention of the Schneider-Danglis mountain gun, his service as chief of staff in the Balk ...

) *

Canon de 75 M(montagne) modele 1919 Schneider The Canon de 75 M (montagne) modèle 1919 Schneider (75 mm mle.1919) was a French mountain gun designed as a replacement of the 65 mm mle 1906. The mle 1919 was manufactured by Schneider et Cie and used during World War II. For transport, t ...

* 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 1912 Schneider The Canon de 75 modele 1912 Schneider was a French World War I piece of 75 mm artillery, designed and manufactured by Schneider et Cie in Le Creusot. It entered service with the French horse-mounted artillery in 1912 and a number were sold ...

Canon de 75 modèle 1914 Schneider The Canon de 75 modèle 1914 Schneider was a light field gun used by the French Army of World War I. It was created by modifying an export-model field gun built by Schneider et Cie at Le Creusot to fire shells from the family of 75mm artillery am ...

Canon anti-aérien de 75mm modèle 1939 Canon or Canons may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Canon (fiction), the conceptual material accepted as official in a fictional universe by its fan base * Literary canon, an accepted body of works considered as high culture ** Western can ...

Canon de 85 modèle 1927 Schneider The ''Canon de 85 modèle 1927 Schneider'' ( el, Πεδινό Πυροβόλο Σνάιντερ 85χιλ. (υπόδειγμα 1925)) was a field gun used by Greece during World War II. After the occupation of Greece, the Germans allotted this gun ...

Canon de 105 modèle 1930 Schneider The Canon de 105 modèle 1930 Schneider was a field gun used by the armies of Greece, Denmark, and Poland during World War II. It used the same sprung single-axle split-trail A gun carriage is a frame and mount that supports the gun barrel o ...

* 107 mm gun modèle 1910 *

120 mm Schneider-Canet M1897 long gun 120 mm Schneider-Canet M1897 long gun was a heavy artillery piece manufactured by the French company Schneider-Creusot. It was a slow firing gun without a recoil mechanism but with significant range and weight of the shell. Serbia ordered 17 ...

* 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 The 155 mm Creusot ''Long Tom'' was a French siege gun (artillery piece) manufactured by Schneider et Cie in Le Creusot, France and used by the Boers in the Second Boer War as field guns. Four guns, along with 4,000 common shells, 4,000 shra ...

Canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider The Canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider, often abbreviated as the ''C17S'', was a French howitzer designed by Schneider. It was essentially the ''Canon de 155 C modèle 1915 Schneider'' fitted with a different breech to use bagged propellant ra ...

Canon de 194 mle GPF The Canon de 194 GPF (''Grande Puissance'' Filloux - "High-Power" Filloux) - was the first French tracked self-propelled gun (SPG). Designed at the end of World War I, it was a pioneering weapon with many modern features. Design The vehicle wa ...

Canon de 220 L mle 1917 The Canon de 220 L mle 1917 was a French heavy field gun design which served with France, Germany and Italy during World War I and World War II. Description This 220 mm heavy field gun was a state-of-art design for its time, with decent tra ...

* Mortier de 220 modèle 1915/1916 Schneider * Mortier de 280 modèle 1914 Schneider

Schneider Trophy

Starting in 1911,

Jacques Schneider Jacques P. Schneider (25 July 1879 – 1 May 1928) was the French financier, balloonist and aircraft enthusiast, who created the Schneider Trophy. Life Jacques P. Schneider was born near Paris on 25 July 1879. His father was Paul Henry Schneide ...

offered the

Schneider Trophy The Coupe d'Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider, also known as the Schneider Trophy, Schneider Prize or (incorrectly) the Schneider Cup is a trophy that was awarded annually (and later, biennially) to the winner of a race for seaplanes and flying ...

. It was a competition for seaplanes, with a large and prestigious prize.

Notes

External links

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