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History of the company/bank and archive description for Aéroports de Paris (ADP)

Its brief is to design, build and run all airports and airfields open to civil aircraft within a radius of 50 kms of the French capital. ADP has authority over fourteen airports and airfields spred over this area (Le Bourget, Orly, Roissy - Charles de Gaulle, Toussus - le - Noble, Chavenay - Villepreux, Coulommiers - Voisins, Pontoise - Cormeilles, Chelles - Le Pin, Lognes - Emerainville, Meaux - Esbly, Persan - Beaumont, Saint - Cyr l´Ecole, Issy - les - Moulineaux and Etampes - Mondésir).

Since the sixties, ADP has also developed a policy of technical airport engineering cooperation, both in France and abroad, that has allowed the company to export its know - how worldwide.

The history of the company whose staff ranged from 200 people in 1945 up to more than 7,000 people in 1998, is closely associated to the civil air transport development policy.

As a consequence of it, more than 300,000 files are kept by the department of archives, that contain as well (and mostly) technical as administrative records and archives, the oldest of which (except the building project of the Le Bourget airport terminal by the architect Georges Labro, 1936 - 1937 and some few more archives) begin in the 1944 - 1945.

Among them, let us mention records or archives that concern:

• the history and the evolution of the company´s policy as regards air transport within a radius of 50 kms of Paris.
• the world of air transport : airlines and other commercial partners, luggage delivery, air terminal managing activity, ground assistance, arrival / departure facilities for passengers, cargo and postal traffic carried by air, traffic regulations, services fares policy, traffic organization and statistics, traffic fares and conditions.
• the building sites and the works done by other companies on ADP´s field.
• the communication policy : the company publishes two news magazines : "Aéroports Magazine" (aimed at air transport professionals) and "Entre voisins" (Between Neighbours) (aimed at people living near our airports), and as regards internal communication, "Le Journal d´ADP" (ADP News) ( aimed at ADP staff).
• ADP dress (uniform).
• the noise and pollution problems, the airport environment and ADP´s relationship to its neighbours.
• the airport security management.
• the planning and construction of airport terminals, traffic control towers, buildings and hangars, runways and their maintenance, waiting and taxiing zones, landing systems.
• car parks.
• the airport technical engineering cooperation worldwide.
• personnel managing policy and its status.
• accountancy, budget, investments...

All records and archives are computerized with IBM ´Search Manger´ and DCI ´Taurus´ data systems.

Total volume of records and archives amount to 15,000 metres.

2 - records of other companies : that have worked for ADP or sold products of facilities to it (not yet inventoried).

3 - index of records and sources, inventories :

As regards our archives, the ´Répertoire numérique détaillé du fonds de l´aéroport du Bourget´ (1934 - 1981) is the only available source of organized information : it is a detailed inventory that reflects the life of Le Bourget airport.

Other inventories : (in progress)

4 - special collections (e.g. photos, films, videos, historical objects) :

3 photographic libraries within the company are dealing with photos of individuals as well as of groups of people, the construction of air terminals, runways and other buildings, meetings, building sites...

More than hundred 16 mm films and videos are available too.

5 - lost records : --

6 - company records deposited in other archives and vice versa : the archives departments of the following authorities and companies, among others, have records and / or archives concerning ADP :

• Direction of Civil Aviation (D.G.A.C.) : 48, rue Camille Desmoulins, F - 92 452 Issy - Les - Moulineaux, France.
• Ministry of Transports : Tour Pascal B, F - 92 055 La Defense Cédex, France.
• Department of Historical Archives of the French Airforce Army (Service historique de l´armée de l´air) : BP 110, F - 00 481 Armees, France.
• Musée de l´Air : Le Bourget Air Terminal, F - 93 351 Le Bourget, France.
• Archives départementales du département de la Seine - Saint - Denis : BP 193, 18 avenue Président - Salvador - Allende, F - 93 003 Bobigny Cédex, France.
• Archives départementales du département du Val de marne : 10 rue des Archives, F - 94 006 Creteil Cédex, France.
• Records and archives of French and foreign airlines.

• Moncany , Laurent : Le Bourget, une page d´histoire de l´aviation marchande. Paris, Club du beau livre de France, 1956. 171 p.
• Dupuy , René : Le grand siècle du Bourget 1870 - 1970. Paris, France - Empire, 1970. 255 p.
• Dupuy , René : Aéroports de Paris, 1945 - 1985. Paris, Média France, 1985. 139 p.
• Maoui , Gérard / Neiertz , Nicolas : Entre ciel et terre, Aéroports de Paris. Paris, Le Cherche Midi, 1995. 127 p.
• Neiertz , Nicolas : La coordination des transports en France de 1918 à nos jours. Thèse de doctorat d´histoire. Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne, 1995. 750 p.