Jacob Holtzer & Co. of Unieux - 1900

Still in the cursory stage as I don't know all the players, but in 1900 they don't seem to be concerned with bar stock for sporting weapons tubes.





Socit de Firminy looks promising as they peddled rods for gun tubes and they had a steel named Acier Satan, which must have been harder than hammered hell. I'm sure they got a demerit or 2 for noise pollution on the helve-hammers. I don't know if you have been around a diesel pile driver, but from what I can gather it was worse than that.

http://books.google.com/books?id=6I0eAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA791&lpg=PA791&dq=soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9+de+firminy+acier+satan&source=bl&ots=kh0a4VBO71&sig=g3liGZ2XQEVZN2zrRUIqTfX-tNQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vd2WUfqJKYOm8QSL8oGwBw&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9%20de%20firminy%20acier%20satan&f=false

1891 - Acier Satan, Acier Chrome - many more and may contain some info but will take a bit to sift thru it.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
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