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 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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.

Dayde and Pille

From Graces Guide
1897. Foundations of the Pont Alexandre III, Paris.

Daydé & Pillé of Creil, France.

Iron and steel constructors, boiler makers.

Founded by Henri Daydé.

The company was first called Daydé , then briefly Lebrun, Pillé & Daydé (1880), then Daydé & Pillé (1882), then finally again Daydé (1903). The company merged in 1964 into the Compagnie Française d'Entreprises, now CFEM, and finally integrated into Eiffel constructions métalliques.

See Wikipedia entry, which includes a list of major structural projects.

1889 Made Lagosse & Bouché water tube boilers used at the Paris Exhibition.[1]

1896 Description of the Viaduc de Tolbiac (Paris), constructed for the Ville de Paris, to carry a new street, the Rue Tolbiac, over the station yard of the Orleans Railway. Designed by M. Salles, Ingenieur des Ponts et Chaussees ; MM. Huet and de Tavergnier were in charge of the work, and Daydé & Pillé were the contractors.[2] [3]

Old works photos here.

Old photos of works and products here

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Sources of Information

  1. [1] The Engineer, 21 June 1889, p.521
  2. Engineering 1896/08/14
  3. Engineering 1896/08/28