Bucyrus-Erie

Bucyrus International, Inc.

Company type	Subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc.
Industry	Machinery manufacturing
Predecessor	Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company (1880–1893) Bucyrus Steam Shovel and Dredge Company of Wisconsin (1893–1895) The Bucyrus Company (1895–1911) Bucyrus Company (1911–1927) Bucyrus-Erie Company (1927–1996)
Founded	Bucyrus, Ohio, United States (1880 (1880))
Founder	Daniel P. Eells et al.
Defunct	July 2011
Fate	Purchased by Caterpillar Inc.
Headquarters	South Milwaukee, Wisconsin , United States
Area served	Worldwide
Products	8750 Dragline RH400 Hydraulic Excavator MT6300AC Mining Truck
Services	Maintenance
Footnotes / references [1][2][3][4][5][6]

Bucyrus-Erie was an American surface and underground mining equipment company. It was founded as Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company in

Bucyrus was an early producer of steam shovels in its Bucyrus, Ohio headquarters and manufacturing facility. In 1893, Bucyrus moved its operations to South Milwaukee, Wisconsin.^[8]

In 1904 Bucyrus supplied 77 of the 102

1927-1980

The company changed its name to Bucyrus-Erie in 1927 when it merged with the Erie Steam Shovel Company, the country's leading manufacturer of small excavators at that time.^{[citation needed]}

In 1930 Bucyrus joined with Ruston & Hornsby Ltd Lincoln, England, forming the Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd firm in England. Ruston & Hornsby Ltd were the pre-eminent manufacturers of steam excavators at the time, having started in 1874. The merger gave the company access to previously unavailable world markets.

1980-2011

Ruston & Hornsby Ltd sold their share in Ruston-Bucyrus in 1985, during a period of recession and consolidation in the mining industry, as they divested non-core businesses to survive.^{[citation needed]}

For a time in the 1980s the company was known as Becor Western following its merger with Western Gear.^{[citation needed]}

On February 18, 1994, Bucyrus-Erie filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and remained under bankruptcy protection until December 14, 1994.^[11]

The company adopted the name Bucyrus International, Inc. in 1997.^{[citation needed]}

Bucyrus built hundreds of large mining machines, as well as construction equipment, competing with

In February 2010, Bucyrus International completed a US$1.3 billion acquisition of the mining equipment division of Terex Corporation.^[12]

On November 15, 2010, Bucyrus agreed to be acquired by

Bucyrus owned the Bucyrus, Bucyrus-Erie, Marion, and Ransomes & Rapier brands and provided OEM parts and support services for machinery which bears those brands.^[15]

Historical

• 4250-W walking
  McConnellsville, Ohio
  in a small park dedicated to coal mining.
• 3850-B power shovels for stripping, one built each in 1962 and 1964, with bucket capacities of 115 and 145 cu yd (88 and 111 m³).
• 2570-W or WS, one of B-E's most popular dragline models with bucket capacities between 120 and 160 cu yd (92 and 122 m³). Ursa Major at Black Thunder Coal Mine was reported to be the third largest dragline ever built.
• Silver Spade and its twin the GEM of Egypt
  , 1950B power shovels, were built in 1965 and 1967 respectively, with a bucket capacity of 80 m³ (100 cu yd). The Silver Spade was dismantled in 2007.
• Big Brutus, an 1850-B power shovel, was built in 1962, with a 90-yard bucket. It is in West Mineral, Kansas, as the centerpiece of a museum.
• Bucyrus-Erie 50-R, 55 feet high and housing a massive drill, was used in the successful rescue of two miners during the 1963 Sheppton, Pennsylvania mining disaster.^[16]
• 1250-B/W and 1260-W walking draglines, with buckets between 33 and 45 cu yd (25 and 34 m³).
• 5-W walking dragline, with a 5-cubic-yard (3.8 m³) bucket and produced until around 1970.
• 1150RB walking dragline, transported to Britain in 1946 as part of the Marshall Plan. It was used to remove overburden at various mines around the UK, lastly at St Aidan's opencast coal mine, Yorkshire, until the River Aire burst its banks and flooded the mine in March 1988. It has been preserved as a static monument at the site.^[17]

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