Ruston-Bucyrus

Ruston-Bucyrus

Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd was an engineering company established in 1930 and jointly owned by Ruston and Hornsby based in Lincoln, England and Bucyrus-Erie based in Bucyrus, Ohio, the latter of which had operational control and into which the excavator manufacturing operation of Ruston and Hornsby was transferred.

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.

The name, Ruston-Bucyrus Ltd., was acquired in 2005, by Paul and Frank Murray (Brothers) as Co-Directors.