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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 tramway 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.