Societe Alsacienne de Constructions Mecaniques
Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques, more conveniently known as SACM, of Mulhouse, Alsace, France. Engineering company which produced railway locomotives, textile and printing machinery, stationary steam engines, large gas engines, diesel engines, machine tools, boilers, lifting equipment, firearms and mining equipment.
1890 Illustrations and description of compound horizontal engine with Frikart (J. R. Frikart of Lille) valve gear [1]
1891 Description and illustration of horizontal steam pumping engines constructed c.1885 for the Hirzbach pumping station[2]
Exhibited a 600 HP turbine at the 1910 Brussels Exhibition.[3]
1928 Part of Compagnie Francaise Thomson-Houston was combined with locomotive builder SACM to form Alsthom; the name was derived from ALSacienne-THOMson
SACM also produced the first atomic reactor at Marcoule.
1965 The agent in the UK was David E. F. Vickers
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Engineering 1890/06/20
- ↑ [1] 'The Steam Engine : A treatise on Steam Engines and Boilers' by Daniel Kinnear Clark. Vol 2, pp.332-6
- ↑ ZVDI, 18 June 1910