The Works Of Messrs. Schneider And Co.

III.—GENERAL CLASSIFICATION OF MESSRS. SCHNEIDER AND CO.’S WORKS. WE may now proceed to a considération of the principal installations that go to make up the actual establishment of Creusot and its many depend- encies. This may be most conveniently done, in the first place, by a summarised list as follows : 1. Mineral Section. 1. Coal mines : a. Creusot. b. Montchanin (Saône et Loire). c. Decize (Nièvre). 2. Iron mines : a. Mazenay, Créot and Change (Saône et Loire). b. Allevard (Isère). 3. Brickyards. The brickmaking plant of Perreuil, where refractory bricks of all shapes and sizes are manufacturée! for the metallurgical departments. 11. Metallurgical Section. 4. Blast-furnaces. 5. Coke ovens. 6. Steel works : a. Bessemer and Martin plants. b. Forging shops for the treatment of heavy steel pièces, thick armour-plates, gun parts, marine engine shafting. &c. c. Steel cementation and tempering shops, especially for tempering and re-heating armour-plates. d. Armour-plate finishing shops. e. Tyre shops devoted to the manufacture of steel tyres for locomotives and rolling stock. f. Steel foundry. 7. Rolling mili department : a. Puddling for the manufacture of puddled iron. b. Rolling milis for all classes of sectional steel ; steel plates ; light steel armour-plates for the Navy ; armour-plates for protected land turrets, &c. The rolling shops and steel worka are provided with thoroughly equipped laboratories for making all kinds of physical and Chemical tests. It is in these laboratories where all materials employée!, as well as manufactured products, are submitted to analysis. III. Construction Department. 8. Mechanical shops for the construction of machines, and parts of machines ; marine and stationary engines ; locomotives ; Boilers ; &c. 9. Electrical shops, for the construction of dynamos and other electrical apparatus. 10. Laboratory for mechanical tests. 11. Laboratory for electrical tests. 12. The artillery shops at Creusot. 13. The artillery shops at Havre. Both of these latter are equipped for fitting, finishing, and mounting guns of all calibres ; carriages ; cupolas ; and, in g-eneral, all kinds of war material. 14. The polygon at Creusot (Villedieu), for testing guns and armour-plates, powders and projectiles. 15. The polygon at Havre (Hoc), arranged especially for bal listic experiments with guns of all calibres. 16. Miscellaneous shops for the construction and main- tenance of the buildings in the works ; the maintenance and renewal of the fixed plant and rolling stock of the railways belonging to Messrs. Schneider and Co. ; the direction of traffic on these lines, and that of a port belonging to the company on the Canal du Centre, at Bois Bretoux. 17. The workshops at Chalon-sur-Saône, which con- tain the shipbuilding and bridge-construction departments. IV. The Direction. 18. The administrative services, comprising: a. The central direction. b. General control. c. General inspection. d. Régie du Domaine. e. An arbitration office. f. Cashier’s office. 19. The commercial services are divided into nine sections : a. General stores. b. Coal mines. c. Transports. d. Steel works and rolling milis. e. Artillery. f. Engineering department. g. Eleetricity. h. Finance. i. Archives. 20. There is also an extensive printing office and a photographie studio.