Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Billeter and Klunz

From Graces Guide
Small Billeter & Klunz single-column planer on display at the Skansen Open-air Museum (Stockholm)
Showing the rack-based mechanism for operating the automatic tool traverse via gears and ratchets
JD 2018 Billeter 3.jpg

Billeter & Klunz Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik und Eisengießerei, Ortssitz, Aschersleben (Harz)

Machine tool makers.

Heinrich Billeter (born 5 August 1821 in Männedorf near Zurich, died 23 January 1895) and David Klunz.[1]

Started in 1857.

In 1877 (1883?) Billeter designed a single-column planer.

After the Second World War, the company became the VEB Werkzeugmaschinen Fabrik Aschersleben (WEMA).[2]


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] QR-Erinnerung website - Familie Billeter
  2. [2] Wikipedia - Geschichte der Unternehmen der Stadt Aschersleben