Ruston-Bucyrus
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Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd was an engineering company established in 1930 and jointly owned by Ruston & Hornsby based in Lincoln, England, and Bucyrus-Erie based in South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the latter of w
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Bedford truck fitted with Ruston-Bucyrus drilling rig, in Lixouri, Greece
Ruston-Bucyrus 10-RB in the United Kingdom
Cultivator No. 6
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Cultivator No. 6 was the code name of a military trench-digging machine developed by the British Royal Navy at the beginning of World War II. The machine was originally known as White Rabbit Number Si
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…American company founded in 1880, in Bucyrus, Ohio. During the Second World War, the company developed a trench-cutting machine known by the code name Cultivator No. 6 at the behest of Winston Churchill. A limited company, Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd., was formed in 2005, by Paul and Frank Murray (Brothers) as co-directors…
Front view of a Cultivator No. 6, 25 July 1941
The brilliant but inexperienced young marine engineer Frank Spanner, who prepared the initial design
Nellie above ground rear three quarters view
Nellie's engine compartment