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Re: Comeng/Budd licences
- Subject: Re: Comeng/Budd licences
- From: pcc@ocean.com.au (Brown Family)
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:59:29 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail,misc.transport.rail.australia-nz
- Organization: Customer of Connect.com.au Pty. Ltd.
- References: <38D7688B.AD669752@ozemail.com.au> <8b991n$nhj$1@jedi.apana.org.au>
- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:4310
On 22 Mar 2000 01:52:55 GMT, craigd@lios.apana.org.au (C. Dewick)
wrote:
>Budd is most definitely *not* out of business! When I visited friends in
>Canada during 1996 I discovered during one of my days with the local CN
>shunting crew at Kitchener (on the London sub-division) that their major
>rail-served industry was in fact the local Budd plant which was at the time
>producing and shipping out road truck chassis by the trainload!
>
>I asked the CN guys about Budd's rail-related production and they said Budd
>hadn't produced any railway rollingstock or parts for quite some years.
>
>Not sure if Budd had plants outside North America though they definitely
>licensed their technologies outside the region as we know from the legacies
>we have here to Budd.
>
Now a part of Thyssen-Krupp Automotive.
http://www.buddcompany.com
Les Brown
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to loose.