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Desoutter Industrial Tools founded in Great Britain in 1914, now headquartered in France, is an industrial manufacturer providing
electric
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and
pneumatic assembly tools. Products and services are sold in more than 170 countries through 20 business units. Desoutter Tools is active in fields such as
Aerospace
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,
Automotive Industry
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, Light Assembly and Heavy Vehicles, Off-Road, General Industry.
The French companies Georges Renault
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2014: "Georges Renault ...lance sa petite entreprise en 1918"- no mention of takeover. in 1989 and Seti-Tec in 2011, the American Tech-motive in 2005 and the Swedish Scan Rotor in 2004 have been integrated in the Desoutter Tools company.
History
Origin
Marcel Desoutter
....
André Marcel Desoutter (31 January 1894–13 April 1952) was an English aviator, who lost a leg in an early flying accident, but went on to a successful career in the aviation industry.
Early life
Desoutter was one of six children of Lou ...
, one of the five Desoutter brothers, was an aviator. When he lost a leg in an aircraft crash,
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Desoutter Air Crash he was fitted with an "uncomfortable wooden replacement". His brother Charles helped him regain his mobility by designing a prototype for a new artificial leg
made of
duralumin. It was the first ever metal leg. Lighter and easier to manoeuvre than wooden legs, Marcel was flying again by the following year.
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Description about the articial limb chosen
This innovation was met with interest from other persons needing a lighter artificial leg; and it resulted in the founding of the Desoutter Company, headed by Marcel Desoutter.
Product lines
From the outset, Desoutter needed to develop specific
pneumatic tools
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to ensure that the aluminium components of the artificial limbs were drilled efficiently.
Adjust to the numerous developments in its production, the company acquired expertise in this field that in the 1950s they decided to make it their sole business.
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Desoutter Tools solutions
Logo
The original idea for this symbol was accredited to Charles Cunliffe who headed Desoutter
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Desoutter Tools website’s Advertising department for many years after the Second World War. This was a period of growth, particularly owing to the development of a new range of products.
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World War II become Growth Period for artificial limbs Their launch was accompanied by a novel advertising campaign presenting diminutive figures in worker's overalls, but with the heads of horses.
This horsepower concept was developed in many of the brand's advertisements for about twenty years. The managing board at the time even decided that it was the embodiment of the company's identity.
In 1973, the horse's head was combined with the Desoutter logo script, which was a facsimile of Louis Albert Desoutter's
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the Desoutter Medical company presents him in the "Our History tab" signature,
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Anecdotes presenting Desoutter logo history one of the company's founders.
To mark the centenary of the brand, the emblem recently adopted a more contemporary graphic design.
Products
References
Further reading
* Flight magazine, 29 March 1913
* Flight magazine, 2 May 1929
* Flight magazine, 25 April 1952 (Obituary)
* Flight magazine, 13 January 1955
*Jackson, A J. British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 2. Putnam, 1973
* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume15. Oxford University Press, 2004
External links
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Mechanization in Industry, Harry Jerome, 1934 Design for Industry, Volumes 48–49 Machinery & Production Engineering Volume 77, Issue 2Aeroplane and Commercial Aviation News, Volume 97{{Atlas Copco
Pneumatic tool manufacturers
Automotive tool manufacturers
Power tool manufacturers
Manufacturing companies established in 1914
Manufacturing companies of France
Tool manufacturing companies of the United States
Industrial machine manufacturers
1914 establishments in England