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Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd was an engineering company established in 1930 and jointly owned by Ruston & Hornsby based in Lincoln, England, and Bucyrus-Erie based in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the latter of which had operational control [1] and into which the excavator manufacturing operation of Ruston & Hornsby was transferred. The Bucyrus company ...
Bucyrus-Erie was an American surface and underground mining equipment company. It was founded as Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company in Bucyrus, Ohio, in 1880. Bucyrus moved its headquarters to South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1893. In 1927, Bucyrus merged with the Erie Steam Shovel Company to form Bucyrus-Erie.
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Bucyrus was itself acquired by heavy equipment and diesel engine maker, Caterpillar, in 2011. Caterpillar's largest dragline is the 8750 with a 169-yard bucket, 435-foot boom, and 8,350 ton weight. The market for draglines began shrinking rapidly after the boom of the 1960s and 1970s which led to more mergers.
That company later merged with Bucyrus-Erie and Ruston-Bucyrus was established in 1930. Rustons were primarily steam engineers, manufacturing portable, stationary and traction engines , boilers , and associated engineering products such as winding gear, shafts and pulleys.
The cab of the massive Ransomes & Rapier dragline excavator Sundew is on display along with a cab from 110RB Ruston-Bucyrus dragline from the Barrington Cement Works quarry railway. Also present at the museum is the Simon Layfield Exhibition Centre which comprises three roads of locomotive/wagon exhibits and related displays concerning former ...
Bedford 4WD chassis cab with a chassis mounted drilling rig by Ruston-Bucyrus Many specialist variants were also built; including recovery vehicles , mobile workshops, radio vans and cable layers. The Green Goddess fire engine was also based on the RL.
Around the same time Priestman (and later Ruston Bucyrus) VC (Variable Counterweight) excavators started to become more popular. However, the work VC machines could achieve was slightly constrained by design limitations compared to fully hydraulic "long reach" machines, especially with the arrival of more reliable machines from Japan built by ...