Nice - Applevage Crane #14
- department: Alpes-Maritimes
- municipality: Nice
- naming: Applevage Crane #14
- address: Port Lympia - Infernet Wharf
- author: Applevage Company (manufacturer)
- date: 1936
- protection: Classification of historic monuments by order of 27 March 2000
- label patrimoine XXe: Circular of 1 March 2001
Created in the middle of the 18th century at the instigation of the Duke of Savoy Charles-Emmanuel III, the port of Nice was enlarged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. On the eve of World War II, it comprises three basins, respectively Commerce, Admirals and Lympia. The growth of its activity since the annexation to France in 1860 implies the improvement of its equipment. In 1935 the Chamber of Commerce which manages it decides the acquisition of two electric cranes of 5 tons for the basin of the Commerce, then assigned to the cargo goods. These cranes, No. 13 and No. 14, were set up in 1938 and were used to unload coal. In 1966 they were transferred to the edge of the Admirals basin, on the rails of the Admiral Infernet dock. Crane 13 and two other large cranes built in 1952 were destroyed in 1992-93. Only the No. 14 crane, the last ancient part of the port’s tools, remains today.
Chamber of Commerce of Nice, today Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Nice-Côte d'Azur, it had been entrusted with the management of the port by a decree of 1897.
The company Applevage, established 78 rue Vitruve in Paris, specialized in the construction of lifting appliances and public works equipment. In support of his submission, Applevage provided a first sheet of drawings in December 1936. The contract was signed in February 1937 between Mr. Postel-Vinay, administrator of Applevage, and Ch. Preisig, president of the Chamber of Commerce.
The same company Applevage will be in charge of the reconstruction of the crane in 1956.
The awarding of the construction of cranes 13 and 14 to Applevage results from a competition opened in 1936, in which the main French manufacturers of this type of equipment participate. The cranes were built in 1937 and commissioned the following year.
Damaged during the war, they were repaired in 1947 and the No. 14 crane underwent a complete reconstruction in 1956, on a model very close to the old and reusing as much as possible the parts from it.
The #14 Applevage crane weighs 83 tons, has a maximum working height of 22 m, a lifting capacity of 5 tons and a radius of action slightly greater than 15 m. It is a small electric crane rolling, on gantry, with boom lift and rear balance dart. The cohesion between the two arrows is ensured by a rack system. The materials are wire mesh beams, profiles and sheets assembled by bolting and riveting.
Four movements optimize the operation of the machine: the translation on the rails along the dock, the rotation of the upper part, the lifting of the boom and the lifting of the body or hook.
- Editor: Jean Marx, drac paca crmh, 2004
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