Engineers Jean Leseurre and his brother-in-law Charles Gourdou founded the
Établissements Gourdou-Leseurre in
Saint Maur-des-Fossés, southeast of
Paris in 1921. The factory assembled military aircraft under license, such as the
Breguet 14, until Gourdou and Leseurre began building their own aircraft as main designers. Between 1925 and 1928, Gourdou-Leseurre was taken over by the
Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire shipyard, together with
Loire and
Loire-Nieuport. The aircraft produced at that time by the Gourdou-Leseurre company were known as 'Loire-Gourdou', carrying the LGL denomination instead of GL. In the 1930s strong disagreements developed between Charles Gourdou and Jean Adolphe Leseurre. This eventually led to a break-up of their professional relationship and the demise of the company in 1934. ==Aircraft==