Les salons dentaires constituent un temps fort de l’activité commerciale d’Anthogyr. Sur cette photo prise en 1948 au salon ADF de Paris, on distingue la variété des pièces à main et la présence de moteurs à corde. Dental exhibitions were the source of most of Anthogyr’s business. This photo, taken at the French Dental Association expo in Paris in 1948, shows the variety of handpieces and the presence of corded motors. 1949 ANTHOGYR MAKES EVERYTHING BUT THE DENTIST’S CHAIR Two years after it was officially founded, in industrialists in those countries were faced addition to traditional subcontracting orders, with severe financial difficulties and, as part Anthogyr was making a wide range of dental of war reparations, had had a significant accessories and instruments that it sold to portion of their equipment seized and surgeons and prosthesis laboratories through given to the Allies. Starting in January 1947, specialized distributors. At the Sallanches through the union of manufacturers of dental factory, “an all-white building with a red equipment and devices, the Anthoine Émile roof, out in the middle of nowhere” , machines et Fils establishments obtained a number of operated at full capacity to maintain the Index lathes that enhanced and upgraded frenetic pace of production. Hour after hour, their existing fleet of machines. Anthogyr in the workshop where bar turning, lathing, used the acquisition to grow its dental drilling, and threading took up the entire ground floor, a dozen bar machines, eight A dozen bar machines, eight grinders, an automatic drill, and a threader grinders, an automatic drill, transformed metal bars from the Ugine and and a threader transformed Pont-de-Chéruy furnaces into a multitude metal bars into a multitude of parts for assembly, some destined for customer orders, others for dental devices of parts for assembly in the company’s in-house catalog. Assembly was performed in the assembly workshop, equipment business. The machines were where workers also put finishing touches on also useful in supporting the growth of its contra-angles, amalgam carriers, anesthesia dental business and, in 1949, the relaunch of syringes, and other handpieces sold under its bar-turning subcontracting business. The the Anthogyr brand. For a period of time, next year was marked by the filing of a patent the company even sold products to former —the first of many—for a motorized, corded competitors in Germany and Austria! Many handpiece. 2“The Haute-Savoie industry in Health Services. Automatic dental instruments from Sallanches, ” La Résistance savoisienne, #220, April 22, 1949. 27 rygohtnA’d stnanruot sdnarg seL