Three sites for bogie manufacture were to be at Siegen in Germany Derby, England and at the former ANF plant in Crespin, France.Īfter the Adtranz acquisition in 2001, Bombardier Transportation moved its head office, design center and core manufacturing strategy to Europe with a few legacy plants in North America for the smaller North American market: With the acquisition of Adtranz, Bombardier also gained competence in the electrical propulsion components business. The addition of Adtranz made Bombardier a manufacturer of locomotives along with its existing product lines of passenger carriages, multiple-unit trains, and trams. The takeover was approved by the EU Competition Commission subject to a number of minor clauses including the divestment of Bombardier's stake in Adtranz/Stadler joint venture Stadler Pankow (sold to Stadler Rail), and an agreement to retain Kiepe Electric as a supplier, and ELIN as a partner for a number of years after the acquisition. In May 2001, Bombardier Transportation acquired Adtranz from DaimlerChrysler, and became by many measurements the Western world's largest rail-equipment manufacturer. 21st century 2000s: Western world's largest rail-equipment manufacturer DW encompassed the major portion of the railway equipment industry of the former East Germany ("Kombinat Schienenfahrzeugbau"), and had its principal sites in Bautzen and Görlitz. In 1995 Waggonfabrik Talbot in Aachen, Germany, and in 1998, Deutsche Waggonbau (DW), and Ateliers de Constructions Mécaniques de Vevey in Vevey, Switzerland, were acquired. In 1992, the company acquired Mexico's largest railway rolling-stock manufacturer, Concarril, from the Mexican government. In 1991 the grouping Bombardier Eurorail was formed consisting of the company's European subsidiaries BN, ANF-Industrie, Prorail, and BWS. Bombardier Transportation continues to operate the railcar operations in Thunder Bay. GE ended railcar operations in Canada in 1993. MLW was sold to General Electric in 1988. In 1991 the group purchased Urban Transportation Development Corporation (UTDC) from the Government of Ontario, which had previously acquired Hawker Siddeley Canada. In 1990, Procor Engineering of Horbury near Wakefield, England a manufacturer of bodyshells, was acquired, and renamed Bombardier Prorail. 1990s: Expansion to Mexico, Germany and the UK In the late 1980s Bombardier Transportation gained a manufacturing presence in Europe with the acquisition of a 45% share in BN Constructions Ferroviaires et Métalliques (whose principal site was in Bruges, Belgium) in 1986, and the acquisition of ANF-Industries (whose principal site was in Crespin, France, near the Belgian border) in 1989. In 1987, Bombardier bought the assets of US railcar manufacturers Budd and Pullman-Standard. With the 1975 purchase, Bombardier acquired MLW's LRC (Light, Rapid, Comfortable) tilting train design which it produced in the 1980s. 1980s: Expansion to the US, France and Belgium The core of the Transportation group was formed with the purchase of Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW) in 1975. Bombardier Transportation's first order for mass transit rolling stock was in 1974 for the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) (Montreal transport authority) to build metro trains for the Montreal Metro. entered the rail market in 1970 when it purchased Lohnerwerke GmbH of Austria. History 20th century 1970s: Formation and first orders Ĭanadian company Bombardier Inc. 1.2.2 2010s: Global operations and decline.1.2.1 2000s: Western world's largest rail-equipment manufacturer.1.1.3 1990s: Expansion to Mexico, Germany and the UK.1.1.2 1980s: Expansion to the US, France and Belgium.1.1.1 1970s: Formation and first orders.
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