Les tracteurs Vendeuvre
From 1800 to 1900, many craftsmen invested in the construction of simple animal-powered agricultural tools such as plows, harrows and rollers. Some workshops remained modest and disappeared; others, under the impetus of wise bosses or brilliant inventors, developed to move from the craft stage to that of factories which researched and designed new machines intended to relieve man in carrying out work on the land.
This was the fate of a very modest local workshop in Aube, run by a talented man who devoted himself mainly to the development of the machine for threshing cereals and other grasses as well as to all the equipment that could complete and move them.
A century later, the company rose to the rank of a national industry whose reputation extended beyond the borders of France: it was the Etablissements de constructions mécaniques de Vendeuvre. In the 1950s, the latter consolidated a well-established reputation by adding the construction of agricultural tractors to traditional production.
After the euphoric period of the development of agricultural motorization in the 1950s and 1960s, the Etablissements de constructions mécaniques de Vendeuvre, ranked second among agricultural machinery manufacturers in France, encountered management difficulties and joined forces with a manufacturer from across the Atlantic before disappearing forever.
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| Author: | Christian Anxe |
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| Details: | 132 pages, 32 x 23 cm / 12.6 x 9.1 in, hardback |
| Illustrations: | 300 b&w and colour photos |
| Publisher: | Histoire & Collections (F, 2011) |
| ISBN: | 9782352501626 |
