[EIFFEL (Gustave)]

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[EIFFEL (Gustave)]
Autograph letter signed addressed to Mr. Poncin, engineer of the Orleans Railway Company. In-4, 2 pp. LAS on letterhead "G. Eiffel & Cie. Builders", signature "G. Eiffel" and dated Levallois Perret, April 12, 1872. This letter is relative to the railings installed along the bridges of the railways operated by the Orleans Railway Company. Eiffel is commissioned to build an additional bridge and reports the rising costs of the "fonts" and claims an increase of "ten francs per hundred kilos on the prices of our market". Moreover, he reports the delay of the factories: "The situation of the market of iron and fonts is such at the moment that all the factories are encumbered of orders". Eiffel worked a lot in the construction of railroad bridges, in particular by developing for the Orleans Railway Company a structure called "Eiffel system dismountable bridges". From 1860, at the request of the Orleans Railway Company, Eiffel built bridges on the Brive-Toulouse line. In 1864, Gustave Eiffel went into business for himself and acquired the Ateliers Michwell de constructions métalliques in Levallois Perret. The Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO) was one of the five major private railroad companies of the 19th century. The law of July 7, 1838 concedes the line from Paris to Orleans and branches to Casimir Leconte and company. JOINT : Letter signed by Gustave Eiffel addressed to Mr. Dupuy, chief engineer at the Orleans company. In-4, 1 page. LS on letterhead "G. Eiffel & Cie. Constructeurs", one line with a polite formula in Eiffel's hand and signature "G. Eiffel", dated Levallois Perret, June 6, 1872. With an ink sketch of the railings. Eiffel's offices state: "We have the honor of informing you that, having in our factory a certain number of railings according to the sketch opposite, coming from small bridges of the line from Brive to Tulle, we come to ask you to authorize us to use them for the small bridges of the line from Orleans to Gien...".
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