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2 unusual facts about Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques


Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques

In 1970 a new company Alcatel was created by merging The Industrial Telephone Company (a subsidiary of the General Electricity Company), with the Nuclear energy telecommunications and electronic Department of SACM.

During the 1890s the company was particularly noted for its fast and efficient compound locomotives designed by Alfred de Glehn.


Elsässische Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden

After the takeover of Alsace-Lorraine by the German Empire in 1871, many Alsatians who considered themselves to be Frenchmen moved to the area around Belfort where, in 1872, the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (Alsatian Mechanical Engineering Company), SACM, was opened.


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Modèle 1935 pistol

It was developed by the Swiss Charles Petter (a former captain of French Foreign Legion), engineer of the French company Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques de Cholet (SACM) and used by the French Army in several wars.