The Compagnia Generale di Elettricità S.p.A. (General Electric Power Company) was an Italian
joint-stock company founded in 1921 in
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
. The company was widely know in Italy as simple acronym CGE, it was primarily owned and managed by
General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable en ...
USA.
CGE manufactured electrical applications, simple high voltage transformers,
generators, powerplants and engines for
train
In rail transport, a train (from Old French , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives (often ...
s and
trolleybus
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). ''British Trolleybus Systems'', pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing. .or trol ...
es in particular.
It manufactured a certain number of its products for the European market. In the transport sector, CGE was well known for its electric components that equipped many rolling stocks,
trolley buses, railway and locomotive applications. During its active period, CGE competed against two Italian companies:
Ansaldo and "Italian Tecnomasio Brown Boveri" (TIBB).
The company was later the EMC Traction Operating Unit of Ansaldo Transmissione e Distribuzione S.r.l. and was acquired by IMPulse NC, INC. in 2000.
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Defunct manufacturing companies of Italy
Electronics companies of Italy
Manufacturing companies based in Milan