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La Brugeoise et Nivelles

January 01, 1970

La Brugeoise et Nivelles, later BN Constructions Ferroviaires et Métalliques, was a Belgian manufacturer of railway locomotives and other rolling stock; it was formed by a merger of two companies: La Brugeoise et Nicaise et Delcuve and Les Ateliers Métallurgiques de Nivelles (French for "The Metallurgical Workshops of Nivelles").

La Brugeoise et Nivelles
IndustryRail vehicles
PredecessorLa Brugeoise, Nicaise et Delcuve, Les Ateliers Métallurgiques de Nivelles
Founded1913
Defunct1991–2011 (separated companies)
FateAcquired By Bombardier
Successorafter 1977 BN Constructions Ferroviaires et Métalliques
after 1988 Bombardier Transportation Belgium
Headquarters
Bruges
,
Belgium
Area served
Worldwide

The company was acquired by Bombardier Transportation in 1988, plants in Nivelles and Manage closed in 1989 and 2000; as of 2011, the plant located in Bruges operated as Bombardier Transportation Belgium.

History edit

 
La Brugeoise advert circa 1930
 
Interior of a Brugeoise underground car at the Polvorín Workshop

In 1851, Joseph De Jaegher founded a hardware store in the Burg in Bruges; in 1855, this expanded with a steel workshop on the Raamstraat, named Ateliers J. Jaegher; in 1891, this merged with another steel making company in the nearby Gieterijstraat, the Usines Ferdinand Feldhaus, to form the Ateliers de Construction Forges et Aceries de Bruges. By 1900, the company was a major Belgian metal engineering company. In 1905, the company moved its plant and offices to a larger site with good railway connections close to the Ghent Ostend Canal at Sint-Michiels in Bruges. Until 1913, the company operated as the Société Anonyme La Brugeoise,[1][2] abbreviated as La Brugeoise.[3]

In 1913, the company La Brugeoise et Nicaise et Delcuve was formed by the merger of the Bruges-based companies La Brugeoise and Nicaise et Delcuve during a re-organisation of the interests of the holding company Trust Métallurgique Belge-Français,[4] and capitalised at 10 million francs; the new company included a modern steel works, forge and mills at Sint-Michiels.[4]

During World War I, the facilities were occupied by German forces, and at the end of the war had been substantially damaged,[1] however post war construction also required the organisation products. In 1919, control of the company was taken by the Société Générale de Belgique.[1][5]

In 1956, this merged with Les Ateliers Métallurgiques de Nivelles to form La Brugeoise et Nivelles. In 1977, the company merged with Constructions Ferroviaries du Centre (CFC) (in Familleureux, Hainaut, Belgium) to form BN Constructions Ferroviaries et Métalliques (BN).[6]

In 1986, Bombardier took at 45% share in BN, which was increased to 90.6% in 1988.[7] The plants at Bruges and Manage became the BN division of Bombardier Eurorail in 1991.[8][9]

The factory in Nivelles closed and was demolished in 1989/90.[10]

In 2000, Bombardier announced it was to close the subsidiary plant BN Manage based in Manage, Belgium; the action attracted criticism from both trade unions and the Belgian government; perception was that Bombardier had used the 'jobs card' to win a Belgian double deck train contract worth 8.5 billion Belgian francs. The closure announcement came as a complete volte-face from Bombardier's previous statements which included optimistic statements about the Manage plant's future.[11] Train-making ended at the site which was re-purposed by Duferco for steel plate processing.[12]

As of 2011, the factory in Bruges was part of Bombardier Transportation as Bombardier Transportation Belgium.[13]

Products edit

In 1875, the Manage plant produced its first rail vehicles; in 1885, the Bruges plant produced its first tram.[3] Much of the early output prior to that was freight wagons.[1] In addition to railway rolling stock, the company also manufactured bridges, locks and sluice gates, cranes, and vessels for the chemical and sugar industries.[1]

In 1961, the company acquired a license (from Anglo-Franco-Belge) to manufacture GM-EMD locomotives for the European market.[14][note 1] In 1973, factories in Bruges and Familleureux produced the company's first underground trains, for the Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company.[3]

BN produced 26 veículos leves sobre trilhos (VLT) light rail cars for use on Line 2 of the Rio de Janeiro Metro, which were later converted to full metro cars. Eight cars (delivered 1979) were built in Belgium and the remaining 18 (delivered 1980 and 1982) by Cobrasma in their plant in São Paulo.[15] Some of the ones built by Cobrasma were briefly used by the Campinas Light Rail system.

The original "Type 1" cars for Portland, Oregon's MAX Light Rail system, ordered in 1981, were built by BN in association with Bombardier Transportation. They were assembled in North America using bodyshells sourced in La Pocatiere, Canada.[16][17]

A consortium of BN and ACEC provided the first-generation light rail vehicles (LRTA 1000 class) for the Manila LRT Line 1, which opened in 1984. The trains were purchased by the Philippine government on loan with the Belgian government. Originally operating as two-car sets, the 1000 class cars were rebuilt into three-car sets and retrofitted with air conditioning. These cars are being decommissioned with the arrival of newer 13000 class LRVs built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF).

In 1989, a consortium of BN, ANF Industrie and Bombardier won the order for the construction of the passenger Eurotunnel Shuttle wagons,[18] valued at 36 billion francs, of which BN's contribution was valued at 8 billion.[19]

In 1994, the company, in association with INKA and Holec, built commuter trains for the KRL Jabotabek system.[citation needed]

In 1998, after takeover by Bombardier, the company obtained an order with a total value of 22.2 billion Belgian francs to produce 105 Bombardier Voyager trains for the Virgin Rail Group, Midland Mainline and Hull Trains in the United Kingdom at the Bruges and Manage plants; BN's value share of the contract was estimated at 8 to 10 billion Belgian francs.[20][21] Deliveries took place in the early 2000s.[22][6] Also as part of Bombardier, the company also produced Flexity Outlook and Flexity Swift vehicles for Brussels and Rotterdam respectively, the bodyshells of the Autorail à grande capacité for the SNCF, and B09 vehicles for the Docklands Light Railway.[6] Finally, the company continues to supply the Belgian Railways (NMBS/SNCB) with passenger rail vehicles.[6]

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ These included the Class 55, Class 62 & CFL 1800.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e Sources
    "No. 16 : Vaartdijkstraat 5–7, BN (Bombardier-Eurorail), de electriciteitscentrale". Open Monumentendag Vlaanderen (PDF) (in Dutch). Stad Brugge. 1997. pp. 70–73 (37–8 in pdf). {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
    "No.22 : Vaartdijkstraat 5–7 : BN, Divisie van Bombardier-Eurorail". Open Monumentendag Vlaanderen (PDF) (in Dutch). Stad Brugge. 1994. pp. 55–57. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "Staalconstructiebedrijf "La Brugeoise & Nivelles" (ID: 77882)". inventaris.vioe.be (in Dutch). Vlaams Instituut voor het Onroerend Erfgoed (www.vioe.be). 24 September 2009. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
  3. ^ a b c Francoise Zonemberg; Marc Charlet; Philippe De Bock; Sylvain Piraux (31 March 2000). "Manage face à la mort de l'usine du groupe canadien SALE TEMPS POUR LES BOMBARDIER L'avenir fracassé des ouvriers de Manage confrontés au néant A la "BN" de Bruges, la vie continue (presque) comme avant La saga "Brugeoise et Nivelles"". archives.lesoir.be. Le Soir.
  4. ^ a b Marie-Thérèse Bitsch (1994). La Belgique entre la France et l'Allemagne, 1905–1914 (in French). Publications de la Sorbonne. pp. 232–3. ISBN 9782859442392.
  5. ^ Jo Cottenier; Patrick de Boosere; Thomas Gounet (1989). La Société générale: 1822–1992. Editions Aden. p. 83. ISBN 9782872620302.
  6. ^ a b c d (PDF). bombardier.com. Bombardier Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 December 2010.
  7. ^ (PDF). Japan Railway & Transport Review (42). December 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
  8. ^ Miville Tremblay (1994). Le sang jaune de Bombardier: la gestion de Laurent Beaudoin (in French). PUQ. p. 56. ISBN 9782760520974.
  9. ^ "LE GROUPE CANADIEN BOMBARDIER REGROUPE EN BELGIQUE SES FILIALES EUROPEENNES. LA BN SE TRANSFORME EN BOMBARDIER EURORAIL". archives.lesoir.be (in French). Le Soir. 14 May 1991.
  10. ^ Jean Vandendries (5 October 1989). "LE DEMANTELEMENT DU SITE DE LA BN PREPARE LE NIVELLES DE L'AN 2000". archives.lesoir.be (in French). Le Soir.
  11. ^ Catherine Delbar; Jurgen Oste (28 April 2000). "Bombardier announces intention to close Manage plant". eurofound.europa.eu. European Industrial Relations Observatory on-line.
  12. ^ Claire Bortolin (15 February 2001). "Exit Bombardier, voici Manage Steel Center" (in French).
  13. ^ . bombardier.com. Bombardier. Archived from the original on 18 May 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  14. ^ "Diesel railway traction", Railway Gazette, vol. 15, p. 418, 1961
  15. ^ "Light Rail in BRAZIL".
  16. ^ Mass Transit, vol. 8, 1981, p. 178
  17. ^ Pacific RailNews, 1986, p. 135
  18. ^ Peter Semmens; Yves Machefert-Tassin (1995). "13. Passenger-vehicle shuttle fleet". In Colin Kirkland (ed.). Engineering the Channel Tunnel. Taylor & Francis. p. 191. ISBN 9780419179207.
  19. ^ Beatrice Delvaux; Marc Charlet (18 August 1989). "LA RESURRECTION DE L'EX-BRUGEOISE ET NIVELLES TECHNIQUE ET SECURITE... LE PILOTE QUI A MENE BN AU BOUT DU TUNNEL GROUPE BN". archives.lesoir.be (in French). Le Soir.
  20. ^ Francoise Zonemberg (10 December 1998). . archives.lesoir.be (in French). Le Soir.
  21. ^ Bombardier's Virgin Voyager starts main line tests in Belgium Rail issue 395 1 November 2000 page 19
  22. ^ Sources:
    Dave Coxon. . traintesting.com. Archived from the original on 17 May 2011.
    Dave Coxon. . traintesting.com. Archived from the original on 17 May 2011.

External links edit

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La Brugeoise et Nivelles later BN Constructions Ferroviaires et Metalliques was a Belgian manufacturer of railway locomotives and other rolling stock it was formed by a merger of two companies La Brugeoise et Nicaise et Delcuve and Les Ateliers Metallurgiques de Nivelles French for The Metallurgical Workshops of Nivelles La Brugeoise et NivellesIndustryRail vehiclesPredecessorLa Brugeoise Nicaise et Delcuve Les Ateliers Metallurgiques de NivellesFounded1913Defunct1991 2011 separated companies FateAcquired By BombardierSuccessorafter 1977 BN Constructions Ferroviaires et Metalliques after 1988 Bombardier Transportation BelgiumHeadquartersBruges BelgiumArea servedWorldwide The company was acquired by Bombardier Transportation in 1988 plants in Nivelles and Manage closed in 1989 and 2000 as of 2011 the plant located in Bruges operated as Bombardier Transportation Belgium Contents 1 History 2 Products 3 See also 4 Notes 5 References 6 External linksHistory edit nbsp La Brugeoise advert circa 1930 nbsp Interior of a Brugeoise underground car at the Polvorin Workshop In 1851 Joseph De Jaegher founded a hardware store in the Burg in Bruges in 1855 this expanded with a steel workshop on the Raamstraat named Ateliers J Jaegher in 1891 this merged with another steel making company in the nearby Gieterijstraat the Usines Ferdinand Feldhaus to form the Ateliers de Construction Forges et Aceries de Bruges By 1900 the company was a major Belgian metal engineering company In 1905 the company moved its plant and offices to a larger site with good railway connections close to the Ghent Ostend Canal at Sint Michiels in Bruges Until 1913 the company operated as the Societe Anonyme La Brugeoise 1 2 abbreviated as La Brugeoise 3 In 1913 the company La Brugeoise et Nicaise et Delcuve was formed by the merger of the Bruges based companies La Brugeoise and Nicaise et Delcuve during a re organisation of the interests of the holding company Trust Metallurgique Belge Francais 4 and capitalised at 10 million francs the new company included a modern steel works forge and mills at Sint Michiels 4 During World War I the facilities were occupied by German forces and at the end of the war had been substantially damaged 1 however post war construction also required the organisation products In 1919 control of the company was taken by the Societe Generale de Belgique 1 5 In 1956 this merged with Les Ateliers Metallurgiques de Nivelles to form La Brugeoise et Nivelles In 1977 the company merged with Constructions Ferroviaries du Centre CFC in Familleureux Hainaut Belgium to form BN Constructions Ferroviaries et Metalliques BN 6 In 1986 Bombardier took at 45 share in BN which was increased to 90 6 in 1988 7 The plants at Bruges and Manage became the BN division of Bombardier Eurorail in 1991 8 9 The factory in Nivelles closed and was demolished in 1989 90 10 In 2000 Bombardier announced it was to close the subsidiary plant BN Manage based in Manage Belgium the action attracted criticism from both trade unions and the Belgian government perception was that Bombardier had used the jobs card to win a Belgian double deck train contract worth 8 5 billion Belgian francs The closure announcement came as a complete volte face from Bombardier s previous statements which included optimistic statements about the Manage plant s future 11 Train making ended at the site which was re purposed by Duferco for steel plate processing 12 As of 2011 the factory in Bruges was part of Bombardier Transportation as Bombardier Transportation Belgium 13 Products editThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it July 2011 In 1875 the Manage plant produced its first rail vehicles in 1885 the Bruges plant produced its first tram 3 Much of the early output prior to that was freight wagons 1 In addition to railway rolling stock the company also manufactured bridges locks and sluice gates cranes and vessels for the chemical and sugar industries 1 In 1961 the company acquired a license from Anglo Franco Belge to manufacture GM EMD locomotives for the European market 14 note 1 In 1973 factories in Bruges and Familleureux produced the company s first underground trains for the Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company 3 BN produced 26 veiculos leves sobre trilhos VLT light rail cars for use on Line 2 of the Rio de Janeiro Metro which were later converted to full metro cars Eight cars delivered 1979 were built in Belgium and the remaining 18 delivered 1980 and 1982 by Cobrasma in their plant in Sao Paulo 15 Some of the ones built by Cobrasma were briefly used by the Campinas Light Rail system The original Type 1 cars for Portland Oregon s MAX Light Rail system ordered in 1981 were built by BN in association with Bombardier Transportation They were assembled in North America using bodyshells sourced in La Pocatiere Canada 16 17 A consortium of BN and ACEC provided the first generation light rail vehicles LRTA 1000 class for the Manila LRT Line 1 which opened in 1984 The trains were purchased by the Philippine government on loan with the Belgian government Originally operating as two car sets the 1000 class cars were rebuilt into three car sets and retrofitted with air conditioning These cars are being decommissioned with the arrival of newer 13000 class LRVs built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles CAF In 1989 a consortium of BN ANF Industrie and Bombardier won the order for the construction of the passenger Eurotunnel Shuttle wagons 18 valued at 36 billion francs of which BN s contribution was valued at 8 billion 19 In 1994 the company in association with INKA and Holec built commuter trains for the KRL Jabotabek system citation needed In 1998 after takeover by Bombardier the company obtained an order with a total value of 22 2 billion Belgian francs to produce 105 Bombardier Voyager trains for the Virgin Rail Group Midland Mainline and Hull Trains in the United Kingdom at the Bruges and Manage plants BN s value share of the contract was estimated at 8 to 10 billion Belgian francs 20 21 Deliveries took place in the early 2000s 22 6 Also as part of Bombardier the company also produced Flexity Outlook and Flexity Swift vehicles for Brussels and Rotterdam respectively the bodyshells of the Autorail a grande capacite for the SNCF and B09 vehicles for the Docklands Light Railway 6 Finally the company continues to supply the Belgian Railways NMBS SNCB with passenger rail vehicles 6 nbsp La Brugeoise metro tram for Argentina 1913 nbsp Belgian Railways Class 23 built 1955 7 nbsp Belgian Railways Class 55 built 1961 62 EMD license nbsp Belgian Railways Class 26 built 1964 71 nbsp Kusttram Belgium rolling stock built 1980 83 nbsp Belgian Railways Class 27 built 1981 84 nbsp Manila LRTA 1000 class LRV in consortium with ACEC built 1982 83 nbsp Portland MAX Type 1 LRV Bombardier j v built 1983 86 nbsp LRV for Amsterdam Metro built 1990 94 nbsp BN Holec Electric Train Indonesia Built 1994 2001 nbsp Virgin CrossCountry Class 220 in June 2001See also editAteliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi manufacturer of electrical equipment for BN built locomotives Alstom Crespin rolling stock manufacturer in northern France part of Bombardier Transportation La Brugeoise cars Buenos Aires Underground Notes edit These included the Class 55 Class 62 amp CFL 1800 References edit a b c d e Sources No 16 Vaartdijkstraat 5 7 BN Bombardier Eurorail de electriciteitscentrale Open Monumentendag Vlaanderen PDF in Dutch Stad Brugge 1997 pp 70 73 37 8 in pdf a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a work ignored help No 22 Vaartdijkstraat 5 7 BN Divisie van Bombardier Eurorail Open Monumentendag Vlaanderen PDF in Dutch Stad Brugge 1994 pp 55 57 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a work ignored help Staalconstructiebedrijf La Brugeoise amp Nivelles ID 77882 inventaris vioe be in Dutch Vlaams Instituut voor het Onroerend Erfgoed www vioe be 24 September 2009 Retrieved 1 July 2011 a b c Francoise Zonemberg Marc Charlet Philippe De Bock Sylvain Piraux 31 March 2000 Manage face a la mort de l usine du groupe canadien SALE TEMPS POUR LES BOMBARDIER L avenir fracasse des ouvriers de Manage confrontes au neant A la BN de Bruges la vie continue presque comme avant La saga Brugeoise et Nivelles archives lesoir be Le Soir a b Marie Therese Bitsch 1994 La Belgique entre la France et l Allemagne 1905 1914 in French Publications de la Sorbonne pp 232 3 ISBN 9782859442392 Jo Cottenier Patrick de Boosere Thomas Gounet 1989 La Societe generale 1822 1992 Editions Aden p 83 ISBN 9782872620302 a b c d Bombardier Bruges Belgium PDF bombardier com Bombardier Transportation Archived from the original PDF on 13 December 2010 Bombardier Transportation A Global Transportation Leader PDF Japan Railway amp Transport Review 42 December 2005 Archived from the original PDF on 13 June 2011 Retrieved 29 June 2011 Miville Tremblay 1994 Le sang jaune de Bombardier la gestion de Laurent Beaudoin in French PUQ p 56 ISBN 9782760520974 LE GROUPE CANADIEN BOMBARDIER REGROUPE EN BELGIQUE SES FILIALES EUROPEENNES LA BN SE TRANSFORME EN BOMBARDIER EURORAIL archives lesoir be in French Le Soir 14 May 1991 Jean Vandendries 5 October 1989 LE DEMANTELEMENT DU SITE DE LA BN PREPARE LE NIVELLES DE L AN 2000 archives lesoir be in French Le Soir Catherine Delbar Jurgen Oste 28 April 2000 Bombardier announces intention to close Manage plant eurofound europa eu European Industrial Relations Observatory on line Claire Bortolin 15 February 2001 Exit Bombardier voici Manage Steel Center in French Bombardier Transportation in Belgium bombardier com Bombardier Archived from the original on 18 May 2011 Retrieved 28 June 2011 Diesel railway traction Railway Gazette vol 15 p 418 1961 Light Rail in BRAZIL Mass Transit vol 8 1981 p 178 Pacific RailNews 1986 p 135 Peter Semmens Yves Machefert Tassin 1995 13 Passenger vehicle shuttle fleet In Colin Kirkland ed 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