The Fenwick Groupe is a French engineering company, established in 1862, located in Saint-Ouen on the northern outskirts of Paris.
[1] In 1927, the French franc collapsed against the dollar making American goods prohibitively expensive.
Consequently, Fenwick obtained a licence to build Yale forklift trucks in France and so diversified into manufacturing.
[2] At its peak in 1970, the company employed 1,150 staff at the Saint-Julien-les-Villas plant, which was also used to manufacture forklifts.
The factory's forklift production was taken over by Linde and a new subsidiary called Fenwick-Linde was created.