Milwaukee Locomotive Manufacturing Company

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| founded = {{Start date and age|1907|10}} in Milwaukee

| defunct = {{End date|1932|7|19}}

| fate = Acquired

| successor = Geo D. Whitcomb Company

| hq_location_city = Milwaukee

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The Milwaukee Locomotive Manufacturing Company was an American locomotive manufacturer founded in 1907. It specialized in locomotives for industrial railroads, and was one of the first builders of gasoline locomotives for use in the mining industry.{{cite journal |journal=Transactions |publisher=Society of Automobile Engineers (U.S.) |title=Gasoline Locomotives for Mines |date=1914 |volume=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cl9kAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA264 |page=264}}

History

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The company was founded in October 1907, in Milwaukee,{{cite web |url=https://americanindustrialmining.com/milwaukee-gasoline-locomotive |title=Milwaukee Locomotive Mfg Co. |publisher=American Industrial Mining Company Museum}} by F.P. Cook, Adolph N. Miller and William W. Plankinton.{{cite news |title=New Corporations. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/401967545/ |work=Wisconsin State Journal |date=13 September 1907 |page=6}} In 1908, the company leased a new factory in North Milwaukee.{{cite magazine |title=Notes of the month |work=Railway Master Mechanic |page=56 |date=February 1908 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iDQOAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA56}} The company's first product was the Vanguard, a standard gauge 30 hp yard switcher.{{cite magazine |title=The Vanguard Gasoline Locomotive |date=13 February 1908 |volume=81 |work=The Iron Age |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5U0cu_tHZy8C&pg=PA497}}

In 1910, it supplied one of the first gasoline locomotives for use in a United States coal mine when it supplied the Midvalley Coal Company of Wilburton with one of its 9-ton Model M-4 locomotives.{{cite magazine |title=Gasoline Locomotive for Mine Use |work=Mines and Minerals |volume=31 |date=April 1911 |page=542 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gbcJrah-B2QC&pg=PA542}}

Just after the First World War the company produced at least one fire truck for the Walter Company of New York.{{cite book |first=Wayne |last=Mutza |title=Engines and Other Apparatus of the Milwaukee Fire Department |publisher=McFarland |date=15 October 2020 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sdf9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA62&dq=%22 |page=62}}

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In 1924, the company introduced its Type H locomotive.{{cite magazine |work=Concrete |title=The new Milwaukee locomotive |page=39 |date=January 1924 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJvmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA39}}

From at least 1919,{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/87630429 |title=West. Airbrake Annual Report |work=The Pittsburgh Post |date=3 April 1920 |page=10}} the company was operated as a subsidiary of the National Brake and Electric Company of Milwaukee, itself a subsidiary of Westinghouse Air Brake Company.{{cite news| title=Whitcomb Locomotive Co. Buys Milwaukee Concern| newspaper=Rochelle News| date=November 17, 1935| page=5| url=https://www.facebook.com/RochelleFlaggTownshipMuseum/photos/a.878384232300906/1300920213380637/?type=3&theater |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/273005526172116/1300920213380637 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited| via=Facebook}}{{cbignore}} On 19 July 1932, the company was sold to the Geo D. Whitcomb Company where it operated as a subsidiary until 1935.{{cite web |url=https://rail.lu/milwaukee.html |title=Milwaukee Locomotive in Luxembourg}}