Decauville Factory In Aulnay-sous-Bois
The Decauville factory in Aulnay-sous-Bois (previously known as Société Lilloise, or colloquially La Lilloise) produced prefabricated narrow gauge railway track and rolling stock from 1914 to the 1950s in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France.
History
The factory belonged to Etablissements Decauville ainé, a French manufacturer focussing on the production and sales of narrow gauge railway material. It was located on a piece of land that Decauville had acquired in 1914 in the Seine-Saint-Denis department of the Île-de-France region in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris. It focussed on tippers, i.e. V skip railway wagons and roadworthy dump trucks.
The factory was renamed to Société Industrielle d'Aulnay in 1946, enabling the company to win a major contract. At the factory Aulnay the last Decauville steam locomotives were built for the lignite mines of Yugoslavia.
References
- ^ Roger Bailly: Decauville, ce nom qui fit le tour du monde. Le Éd. Amattéis, Le Mée-sur-Seine, 1989, ISBN 2-86849-076-X (Also available via Gallica), p. 18, 54, 88-89 and 160.
- ^ Willeme nez de requin LC610 avec Benne Lilloise Decauville.
- ^ La Lillolloise - Benne Basculante ‘Lilloise’, April 1939.
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