Condensed appendices of Moniteur belge on the companies ACAZ and ZACCO
by Luc WITTEMANS





  
 





  
 





  
 





  
 





  

    


  

    
    

      

  Company ACAZ  (1924)

    

    
Ateliers 
    de Constructions aéronautiques de Zeebrugge (A.C.A.Z.),  
    
    limited company, located Haecht, 122, Schaerbeek made up on January 11, 
    1924 by :

    1. Jules Frateur, industrialist, Leuwen

    2. Léopold Frateur, professor of university, Leuwen

    3. Fernand Jacquet, commander, pensioned aviator, Throw-Saint-Pierre

    4. Baron Jean Kervyn de Lettenhove, captain-commander in retirement, 
    Toronto, Canada, represented by Fernand    Jacquet

    5. Joseph Spaas, agricultural engineer, Lille-Saint-Hubert

    6. Victor Antoine, professor of university, Hérent

    7. Gaston Wauters, without profession, Saint-Gilles

    8. Marie-Emilie-white-Ghislaine Hynderick de Ghelcke, widow of Valère deCodt, 
    owner, Brussels

    

    The objective 
    of the company 
    is all kind of enteprises or all industrial or commercial 
    operations, having relationship 
    in a direct or indirect way with aeronautics and air propulsion.

    

    Jules Frateur, Léopold Frateur and Fernand Jacquet state to make 
    contribution unit at the company at present made up :

    1. Of an aeronautical material of factory being composed of machines, tools, 
    electric motor with accessories, material of forging mill and joinery, 
    mechanical tools, electric installation, hydroplanes, goods in stores or in 
    the course of manufacture and movable objects various, the whole being in 
    their workshops at Zeebrugge-Mole.

    2. Their studies, steps and preliminary works for the constitution of this 
    company.

    

    In the other hand, they receive shares of the capital as follows :

    
    
    Fernand Jacquet, 10 actions and 68 shares of founder

    Jules Frateur, 25 actions and 75 shares of founders

    Léopold Frateur, 125 actions and 127 shares of founders

    

    Other actions having set out again as follows :

    Léopold Frateur, 40 actions

    Baron Jean Kervyn de Lettenhove, 130 actions

    Joseph Spaas, 20 actions

    Victor Antoine, 6 actions

    Gaston Wauters, 4 actions

    Marie-Emilie-white-Ghislaine Hynderick de Ghelcke, 20 actions

    

    The same 
    day of the formation of the company, Fernand Jacquet, Jules Frateur, Léopold 
    Frateur and Baron Jean Kervyn de Lettenhove are named administrators, which 
    is logical since they are the principal shareholders. Victor Antoine and 
    Gaston Wauters are called with the functions of commissaire.

    

    April 3, 1925, the registered office is transferred to the 12, street Liedts, 
    Brussels.

    

    At the time of the publication of the assessment at December 31, 1924 in May 
    1925 and assessment at December 31, 1925 in May 1926, Fernand Jacquet was 
    the managing director.

    

    The extraordinary general assembly of October 4, 1926 approves the agreement 
    concluded between A.C.A.Z. and a financial grouping, for the formation of a 
    new company for the exploitation of the A2 plane. Fernand Jacquet resigns as 
    administrator and is replaced by François Feyens.

    The managing director is Jules Fraiteur.

    

    From January 20, 1927, the registered office is transferred to the street 
    from Mérode, 256 in Saint-Gilles.

    


    

    The 
    publication of the assessment at December 31, 1926 in May 1927 is the last 
    sign of life of company A.C.A.Z. It there not of publication about a 
    possible winding-up and voluntary liquidation of the company what makes me 
    think that there would be the possibility of a bankruptcy of which I 
    continue to seek a proof.

 

  



    		
  




 








  

    




  

    
    

      

Company ZACCO  (1926)

    

    
Zeebrugge 
    Aeronautical Construction Company (Zacco), limited company

    

    The constitution of the new company take place on November 4, 1926 by :

    1. The limited company aeronautical Engineering departments of Zeebrugge its, 
    represented by Léopold and Jules Frateur;

    2. Jules Frateur

    3. Alfred-François Feyens father, industrialist, avenue of Tervuren 216, 
    Woluwe-Saint-Pierre

    4. Saül-Emile Melckman, administrator of companies, street of Patriots 43, 
    Brussels

    5. Alfred-Hubert Feyens wire, engineer, avenue of Tervuren 216, 
    Woluwe-Saint-Pierre

    6. Emile Feyens, pilot aviator, avenue of Tervuren 216, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre

    7. Charles Mulder, 
    pilot 
    
    aviator, street of Turnip 12, Antwerp

    

    The 
    company has as purpose manufacture, repair, transformation, talk, purchase, 
    sale and lease of all the combustion or spark-ignition engines, all 
    aircrafts being attached to it directly or indirectly, and more especially 
    of all the 
    aircrafts 
    being 
    attached to aeronautics and the air propulsion.

    

    
    
    Company A.C.A.Z. states to make contribution at the company at present made 
    up :

    1. Studies, plans, documents and, in general, straight relative to all 
    inventions and improvements useful for the object of the company at present 
    made up and in particular all that relates to aeronautics and the air 
    propulsion.

    2. Benefit of all contracts in progress and all that is referred to it.

    3. Of all the material of factory, tools, goods in store and in the course 
    of manufacture and movable objects various and office supplies being as well 
    in the workshops of the company with Zeebrugge as in its offices, 12 street 
    Liedts, with Schaerbeek, and in particular a reconnaissance aircraft A2, a 
    private plane T3, cells and wings of the A2 plane, tests static.

    In remuneration of this contribution, it is allotted to the A.C.A.Z. 4000 
    actions.

    The 6000 actions remainders being subscribed by :

    Jules Frateur, 1 action

    Alfred-François Feyens father, 2998 actions

    Saül-Emile Melckman, 2998 actions

    Alfred-Hubert Feyens, 1 action

    

    The seat of Zacco was then street Liedts 12, Schaerbeek, addresses which 
    also sheltered at one time companies A.C.A.Z. and O.C.I.A.

    

    Léopold 
    Frateur, Jules Frateur, Charles Mulder, Alfred-François Feyens, the count 
    Edouard Glenisson, doctor in right, place of Station 12, Alost and Aloïs 
    Mulder, stockbroker, street of Turnip 12, Antwerp are named administrators.

    Victor Antoine and Henri Moens de Haese, industrialist, Imperial place 12, 
    Alost are named commissaire while Saül-Emile Melckman is called with the 
    functions of financial comptroller.

    Léopold Frateur is named chairman of the board and Alfred-François Feyens 
    father becomes the managing director.

    

    April 1, 1927 the seat of the company is transferred to the place Madou 8 in 
    Brussels.

    
    September 28, 1927 Alfred-François Feyens resigns of his functions of 
    managing director and is replaced by Charles Mulder. Edouard Glenisson 
    resigns of his functions of administrator and Henri Moens de Haese of his 
    functions of commissaire. They are replaced respectively by Edmond Mulder 
    and Emile Feyens

    

    At the time of the publication of the assessment over 1927, planes A2 and T3 
    always appear in it. Léopold Frateur and Jules Frateur resign of their 
    function of administrator, Victor Antoine of his functions of commissaire 
    and Saül-Emile Melckman of his functions of Financial Comptroller.

    

    The assessment over 1928 fact of appearing a heading "Aircrafts" without 
    details what makes think that A2 and the T3 are always property of Zacco. 
    Edmond Mulder puts a term at his functions of administrator. 

    

    Brussels Air Museum Magazine Number 60, 62 & 77; 

    Mulder and E Feyens being, together with P. Schellekens, owners of the RSV 
    32/90 O-BADA from 5.6.1927 to 5.7.1928. Feyens, whose workshops were street 
    of Cambre with Woluwe (BAMM 62) or street of Duke (BAMM 77), manufactured 
    industrial and marine engines. It is in these workshops that the A.C.A.Z. C2 
    was prepared for the raid of Thieffry of March 1928. E Feyens knew Thieffry 
    since they exerted together of the sports activities at the time of their 
    primary studies at the Institute St Stanislas. "The orders of flight were 
    out of tube steel for bicycle and turned blue with the flame of a blowtorch, 
    with point of fire and water-cooled, like that is practised or was practised 
    for the shotguns, this to prevent rust. Work was carried out by ex-serviceman 
    English of 1414-18, arms manufacturer of trade. The apparatus carried under 
    the belly in a careenage a propeller of replacement".

    

    The assessment of 1929 does not mention any more a heading "Aircrafts". The 
    Mulder family has the company in hand with Aloïs, Charles and Edmond Mulder 
    as administrators and H. Van den Branden, De Bosschaertstraat 177, Antwerp 
    as commissaire. The Feyens family disappears from the management of the 
    company. From April 5, 1929, Qualities and Charles Mulder are named 
    administrators of the general Companies of Aeronautics SA (see SEGA Ci below).

    This assessment is the last sign of life of Zacco which I could find. It 
    there not of publication about a possible winding-up and voluntary 
    liquidation of the company what makes me think that there would be the 
    possibility of a bankruptcy of which I continue to seek a proof..

    

    
      
    

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Many authors 
wrote wrongly that the A.C.A.Z. and Zacco were only two names for the same 
company. Indeed, like one could higher read in the extracts on the A.C.A.Z. the 
shareholders and administrators of the company concluded an agreement with a 
financial grouping for the formation from a new company for the exploitation of 
the A2 plane.



As you can note it, in the statutes of companies A.C.A.Z. and Zacco are 
mentioned planes A2 and T3 but it can be a question only of C-2 and T-2. The 
official history of these planes resembles itself extremely, having had the same 
owners, A.C.A.Z. and Zacco, with the passing of years.



In the register of the Belgian planes, the A.C.A.Z. C-2, registered O-BAFX, and 
T-2, registered O-BAFM, are annotated as transferred to the general Companies 
from Aeronautics (SEGA) SA from Gosselies and that was notified with the 
Administration Aeronautics in a letter the 27.3.1931. At the time of this 
transfer, Mulder were shareholders and administrators in Zacco and the SEGA. The 
two planes were erased register of the Belgian planes the 25.1.1933. C-2 did 
flew probably not any more since it was damaged at the time of its attempt to 
rejoin Brussels with Léopoldville the 9.3.1928 and probably knew a sad end while 
finishing with scrap...



There is still a small mystery about a possible older connection between the 
A.C.A.Z. and the SEGA. We saw higher than Fernand Jacquet was shareholder and 
administrator of the A.C.A.Z. We also know that Fernand Jacquet was the man who 
was behind the SEGA and it is thanks to its relations that the SEGA obtained a 
contract for the training of pupils controls military. Although the SEGA was 
founded in 1920, Fernand Jacquet appears as an administrator only in 1934. The 
assessment at March 31, 1924 of the SEGA mentions - "a training aircraft, 
standard Sega, which is at the hour present in construction in our workshops; as 
of its completion, this plane will be brought into service for the needs for the 
school "-. We know anything more about this plane Sega, no plane does not appear 
in Belgium under this name there. An assumption advanced by my friend Guy 
Roberty is that it could be a question of plane A.C.A.Z. T-1, transferred from 
the SEGA towards the A.C.A.Z. and which made, consequently, its appearance under 
another name. The T-1 received its certificate of registration on June 14, 1924 
what wants to say that it made its first flight and its tests for obtaining a 
navigability certificate in the weeks previous this date. Today, it is thus a 
not checked plausible assumption.