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Société des Machines Contin
Share of 500F - Paris 1932
Head office: Paris, 403 rue des Pyrénées.
La Marque factory in Tulle (Corrèze).
Manufacture of typewriters.
The company also manufactured Pathé machines and equipment for automobiles (under the Continsouza name).
During the First World War, the Continsouza company manufactured rockets, shells and war materials. After the war, she settled in Paris, 403 rue des Pyrénées, to manufacture cinematographic devices for Pathé, but also for other companies including Guilbert and Demaria-Lapierrre. Pierre-Victor Continsouza develops in his workshops in the Belleville district of Paris, various cinematographic devices on behalf of Pathé: 35 mm camera, film printer, film perforating machine, English model projector (1908) and the famous projector Reinforced Pathé (1905).
The La Marque factory manufactured the famous Pathé Baby, but also Contin typewriters and bicycle parts.
In 1929 major financial maneuvers upset the cinema industry. The Continsouza Establishments depend on the National Bank of Credit (B.N.C.) to which they are debtors as well as the Gaumont company and the Aubert-Franco Film company which itself resulted from the merger of the Louis Aubert Establishments and the Franco Film.
This ended on June 12, 1930 with the merger of these 3 companies which became Gaumont-Franco-Film-Aubert. This is how the company name Ets Continsouza disappears.
Data sheet
- Country
- France
- Theme
- Mechanics
- Condition
- EF