Bleichert

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Bleichert GMBH was a famous German engineering firm.

It was founded in 1874 by Adolf Bleichert and began to built bicable mining tramways in the Ruhr. With important patents, and dozens of working systems in Europe, Bleichert dominated the industry.

He licensed the Trenton Iron Works in New Jersey to build his designs in America. Bleichert went on to build hundreds of tramways around the world: from Alaska to Argentina, Australia and Spitsbergen. Bleichert also built hundreds of tramways for both the Imperial German Army and the Wehrmacht.

One 1907 tramway in Chilecito Argentina is considered a masterpiece. Bleichert built systems in Czechoslovakia and Russia too.

Bleichert diversified into passenger cable cars such as the Predigtstuhl Aerial Tramway in the Alps, coal cutting machinery and electric cars. The Leipzig firm went bankrupt in 1937. It was re-formulated in the 1950s to make industrial conveying systems.