Atelier de Construction de Puteaux

History

• to design new weapons for the French Army. It specialized in small arms and medium-caliber and their accessories: machine guns, cannons, tank turrets, riflescopes, missiles etc.
• manufacture these weapons in series, alone or concurrently with other factories.

  Atelier de Construction de Puteaux achievements

Arms

• 1888 : prototype of Berthier rifle.
• 1905 : Puteaux modèle 1905 Machine Gun. Manufactured only a few hundred copies because of its many defects. It was simplified and mass produced by the Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne under the name of St. Étienne Mle 1907 and participated in the two world wars.
• 1915 : prototype of the 1915 CSRG submachine gun, better known as "Chauchat".
• 1918 : 37 mm semi-automatic cannon model 1918 for light tanks.
• 1935 : 25 mm APX modèle 1937, shortened version of the light anti-tank gun 25 mm Hotchkiss anti-tank gun.
• 1938 : 75mm high-velocity APX gun for the ARL V 39, modified from the 75mm 1929 casemate fortress gun.
• 1969 : Rapid anti-tank weapon.

  Weapon accessories

• 1957 : firing scope of the MAS-49 rifle.

  Tank turret

• 1934 : APX 3B turret fitted on the Panhard 178.
• 1935 : APX 5 turret mounted on the AMR 35 ZT 2 and Gendron-Somua AMR 39.
• 1936 : APX standard turret fitted on the prototype of the Hotchkiss H35, prototype of the Renault R35 and the FCM 36.
• 1938 : APX-R turret fitted on the H39 variant of the Hotchkiss H35, the Renault R35 and the Renault R40. A APX-R tank turret was planned to be mounted on the AMX 38.