GENERAL CLASSIFICATION OF WORKS.
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Besides the foregoing, Messrs. Schneider and Co. own
important interests in numerous French and foreign
industrial establishments, and in the Société Anonyme des
Chantiers et Ateliers de la Gironde, at Bordeaux, where
vessels of all sizes for the Navy, as well as for the
merchant service, are constructed.
General Plan of the Works.—This may be found a
convenient place to say a few words about the general
arrangement of the Creusot works, with the assistance of
the plan Fig. 23, Plate IV. As may be seen, the works
may be roughly divided into three sections : the first com-
prising the blast-furnace and steel plant, with the machine
and construction shops ; the second, the rolling milis, steam
hammers, &c. ; and the third, the electrical works, the
gun-making shops, and the firing grounds of Villedieu.
Included in this vast area are the coal mines to be
presently described, worked by the St. Pierre and St. Paul
shafts, as well as the St. Laurent shaft, not far distant.
It will be seen that railway lines run around three sides
of the works, and that branches and sidings are laid down
to accommodate every shop. The figures given on the plan
correspond to the different parts of the works as follows :
1. General offices.
2. Coal mines (St. Pierre and
St. Paul shafts).
3. Steel works.
4. Steel foundry.
5. Rotary puddling furnaces.
6. Biast furnaces.
7. Coke ovens.
8. Machine shops.
9. Carpenters’ shop.
10. Auxiliary shop.
11. Locomotive shed.
12. Steel tyre works.
13. Rolling milis and forge.
14. Iron stores.
15. St. Laurent shaft.
16. Steam hammer shop.
17. Electrical shops.
18. Ordnance works.
19. Open space attached to gun
shops.
20. Firing ground.
21. Pond.
22. Gas works.
23. Creusot railway station.
The varions departments of this liuge establishment
may now be considérée! in somewhat careful detail, com-
mencing with the varions coal mines.