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Desoutter Industrial Tools founded in Great Britain in 1914, now headquartered in France, is an industrial manufacturer providing electric and pneumatic assembly tools. Products and services are sold in more than 170 countries through 20 business units. Desoutter Tools is active in fields such as Aerospace, Automotive Industry, Light Assembly and Heavy Vehicles, Off-Road, General Industry. The French companies Georges RenaultLa marque centenaire Desoutter ne connaît pas la crise
2014: "Georges Renault ...lance sa petite entreprise en 1918"- no mention of takeover.
in 1989 and Seti-Tec in 2011, the American Tech-motive in 2005 and the Swedish Scan Rotor in 2004 have been integrated in the Desoutter Tools company.


History


Origin

Marcel Desoutter, one of the five Desoutter brothers, was an aviator. When he lost a leg in an aircraft crash,Marcel Desoutter Crash
Desoutter Air Crash
he was fitted with an "uncomfortable wooden replacement". His brother Charles helped him regain his mobility by designing a prototype for a new artificial leg made of
duralumin Duralumin (also called duraluminum, duraluminium, duralum, dural(l)ium, or dural) is a trade name for one of the earliest types of age-hardenable aluminium alloys. The term is a combination of '' Dürener'' and ''aluminium''. Its use as a tra ...
. It was the first ever metal leg. Lighter and easier to manoeuvre than wooden legs, Marcel was flying again by the following year.More Comfortable limb
Description about the articial limb chosen
This innovation was met with interest from other persons needing a lighter artificial leg; and it resulted in the founding of the Desoutter Company, headed by Marcel Desoutter.


Product lines

From the outset, Desoutter needed to develop specific pneumatic tools to ensure that the aluminium components of the artificial limbs were drilled efficiently. Adjust to the numerous developments in its production, the company acquired expertise in this field that in the 1950s they decided to make it their sole business.Desoutter Tools solutions
Desoutter Tools solutions


Logo

The original idea for this symbol was accredited to Charles Cunliffe who headed DesoutterDesoutter Tools company
Desoutter Tools website
’s Advertising department for many years after the Second World War. This was a period of growth, particularly owing to the development of a new range of products.World War II
World War II become Growth Period for artificial limbs
Their launch was accompanied by a novel advertising campaign presenting diminutive figures in worker's overalls, but with the heads of horses. This horsepower concept was developed in many of the brand's advertisements for about twenty years. The managing board at the time even decided that it was the embodiment of the company's identity. In 1973, the horse's head was combined with the Desoutter logo script, which was a facsimile of Louis Albert Desoutter'sLouis Albert Desoutter story
the Desoutter Medical company presents him in the "Our History tab"
signature,Logo story
Anecdotes presenting Desoutter logo history
one of the company's founders. To mark the centenary of the brand, the emblem recently adopted a more contemporary graphic design.


Products


References


Further reading

* Flight magazine, 29 March 1913 * Flight magazine, 2 May 1929 * Flight magazine, 25 April 1952 (Obituary) * Flight magazine, 13 January 1955 *Jackson, A J. British Civil Aircraft since 1919 Volume 2. Putnam, 1973 * Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume15. Oxford University Press, 2004


External links

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Mechanization in Industry, Harry Jerome, 1934

Design for Industry, Volumes 48–49

Machinery & Production Engineering Volume 77, Issue 2Aeroplane and Commercial Aviation News, Volume 97
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