Nordberg Manufacturing Company

By 2004 the nordberg operations were defunct.

Nordberg manufacturing company. Nordberg founded the company in 1890. This combined with the difficulties experienced by several operators led to the phase out of the nordberg radial engine. Of negatives 10 archives boxes. Nordberg who had been working at steam engine and sawmill maker e.

Nordberg manufacturing company was a manufacturer of steam engines large diesel engines pumps hoists and compressors for the mining and quarry industries located in milwaukee wisconsin. The company soon expanded into the manufacture of valve engines pumps hoists compressors and similar equipment. 1 milwaukee is the largest city in the state of wisconsin and the fifth largest city in the midwestern united states. In 1970 the nordberg manufacturing company was purchased by the rexnord corporation also of milwaukee wisconsin.

The nordberg manufacturing company was a business that manufactured many different types of heavy machinery engines and hoists as well as mining and railway equipment. Photographs and negatives circa 1910 1970s related to the nordberg manufacturing. Blueprints circa 1890 circa 1946 of the nordberg manufacturing company of milwaukee wisconsin. In 1973 nordbergrexnord stopped manufacturing diesel engines and parts.

Nordberg manufacturing company milwaukee wisconsin. Close up of nordberg steam engine showing crank end off engine and eccentrics. Get this from a library. Includes blueprints of valve engines pumps hoists compressors and similar equipment much of which was used by mining companies in michigans upper peninsula.

Nordberg manufacturing company collection nmahac0975 page 2 of 28 wisconsin historical society library and archives nordberg manufacturing company photographs circa 1910 1970s 182 photographs and 40. One hundred years later in 1989 the company was sold to finish conglomerate metso. The company was founded in 1889 by bruno v.