Les Ateliers d'Aviation Liore et Olivier
Key founders: Fernand Liore and Henri Olivier, two agricultural and general engineers.
Built designs by some 15 early aviators including Morane-Saulnier biplanes (over 2,000 built) and Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter biplanes (nearly 3,000 built); first major original design under LeO designation was LeO 4 reconnaissance biplane, September 1916. Post WWI built many sea and land planes, including bombers, fighters, and passenger airliners. Plants were nationalized in the 1930s.
Plants nationalized appear to include Argenteuil, Clichy, Lavallois, Amberieu, and seaplane works at Rochefort. Those which existed prior to 1917 need to be identified.
This organization enters our patent data under the name F. Liore & Olivier Société. We are tracking phenomena of atelier, somewhat of a proto-industrial and proto-corporate factor, an interface between early leading inventors and there corporate evolutions.
We have F. Liore & Olivier Société filing in collaboration with Jacques-Paul Lucas, with all parties as located within département Seine, France.[1][2]
We have F. Liore & Olivier Société filing still located within département Seine, France, some years later.[3]
Patents associated with organization named F. Liore & Olivier Société
- Patent FR-1911-449459 (Inventors: Jacques-Paul Lucas, English title: improvements to dirigibles, Filing date: 1911-12-23, Applicant firm: F. Liore & Olivier Société)
- Patent FR-1912-449459.16767 (Inventors: Jacques-Paul Lucas, English title: improvements to dirigibles, Filing date: 1912-02-01, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1911-449459, Applicant firm: F. Liore & Olivier Société)
- Patent FR-1917-523805 (English title: Landing gear for airplanes and other aircraft, Filing date: 1917-07-23, Applicant firm: F. Liore & Olivier Société)
Sources
- Gunston, 1993, p183
- Gunston, 2005, p286
- SD178-179
- 1920Dir23, 26
| Names | Les Ateliers d'Aviation Liore et Olivier, LeO, F. Liore & Olivier Société |
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| Country | France |
| City | 46-48, Boulevard de la Revolte, I, rue Chaptal, Levallois-Perret (near Paris), département Seine, France |
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| Keywords | biplane, seaplanes, military, industrialization, industry, atelier |
| Started aero | 1911 |
| Ended aero | Nationalized by 1937 |
| Key people | Fernand Liore, Henri Olivier |
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