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| | Dassault from A to Z - History - 1916 to this day - Dassault Passion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | On January 16, 1937, the Société des Avions Marcel Bloch was fully nationalized, and its factories (Courbevoie, Châteauroux-Déols, Villacoublay, Bordeaux) formed the essential part of the Société nationale de constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Ouest (SNCASO). |
 | | This independence did not last long, however, and the minister for Air merged the SAAMB's design office with the SNCASO on February 17, 1937, through an amendment to the convention of January 16. |
 | | SNCASO took up the rearmament challenge and produced the MB 150 series of single-engined fighter aircraft and then a twin-engined bomber, the MB 170 and its offshoots, as well as a four-engined civil transport aircraft, the MB 161. |
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