page_title: Elna (Swiss company)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Elna (Swiss company) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Sectioned artillery fuze photographed in Hämeenlinna artillery museum. Probably Swiss Tavaro mechanical time fuze, used in Finland in heavy anti-aircraft guns. Some were also assembled in Finland by Sytytin Oy. Suomi: Halkileikattu tykin kranaatin sytytin Hämeenlinnan tykistömuseossa. Luultavasti Sveitsiläinen mekaaninen Tavaro-aikasytytin joita Suomessa käytettiin raskaissa ilmatorjuntatykeissä. Sytytin Oy myös kokosi näitä sytyttimiä Suomessa, kellokoneistot tilattiin Sveitsistä.
context_page_description: Elna is a Swiss brand and former manufacturer of textile machines, including fabric presses and sewing, overlock and coverstitch machines. Elna sewing machines are included in the collections of the Museum of Design, Zürich, Tekniska museet, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.
context_section_description: The firm began as Ateliers Mécaniques de Précision Tavaro SA, founded as an export division of the Tavannes Watch Company (today part of Sandoz). The company was known for high-quality clockwork artillery fuzes, which saw use most notably in the German 88mm anti-aircraft gun. Tavaro was once responsible for a full 11% of Swiss military sales to Nazi Germany.
  When the Swiss federal government restricted, then banned, exports of war materiel, Tavaro shifted to peaceful industry. At first, the factory exported watch parts & movements to the United Kingdom, in violation of wartime trade restrictions, for which the firm was recognized by the British government.
caption: A Tavaro-made artillery fuze, Hämeenlinna Military Museum, Finland
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