- Founded
- 1920 – 1988
- Country
- France
The Compagnie Française de Matériel Ferroviaire, or C.F.M.F., was a French railway-equipment company whose origins reach back to Ateliers et Chantiers de Balbigny in 1920. After periods as Compagnie Française de Produits Métallurgiques and, from 1969, C.F.M.F., the company built and leased railway wagons from Balbigny. Its chairman Jean Tastevin also pursued a French luxury car and commissioned the Monica 560, with development in the early 1970s and a short production attempt at the Balbigny works from 1972 to 1975. The car program was a small and separate diversification inside a railway manufacturer, not evidence that C.F.M.F. became a sustained automobile company. The catalog keeps Monica 560 under the C.F.M.F. identity, separates it from the later Monica marque and from rail successor Arbel Fauvet Rail, and preserves the 1988 endpoint for the Balbigny company rather than implying continuous car production.
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