Pettibone (company)

Pettibone, founded as Pettibone Mulliken, is a manufacturer of material handling equipment based in Baraga, Michigan. The company started doing business in 1881, and manufactures various cranes and other material handling vehicles, many designed specifically for railroad use.[1][2]

Pettibone Corp.
FormerlyPettibone Mulliken
IndustryRailroad equipment, material handling equipment
Founded1881
FounderAlfred H. Mulliken
HeadquartersBaraga, Michigan
Area served
North America

History

Pettibone Mulliken was founded in 1881 in Chicago, Illinois with Alfred H. Mulliken as president.[2] Initially, the company's biggest product was railroad track and switch equipment.[3]

By 1929, the company's manufacturing facilities in Chicago occupied 32 acres.[4]

While primarily a manufacturer of cranes and other material handling equipment, the company received a $3,817,844 contract for artillery material from the United States Department of War in 1940, on the eve of U.S. entry into World War II.[5] During the war, the company continued to manufacture artillery for the United States Armed Forces.[6]

Pettibone today
A Pettibone crane owned by Amtrak seen at Readville station, November 2015.

Today, the company is known simply as Pettibone. It primarily manufactures cranes and other material handling equipment, some of which is still sold specifically for the rail industry.

Pettibone is most known for its cranes, manufactured under the Speed Swing line.[7] Pettibone cranes are used by railroads for a variety of applications, including lifting rails and moving ties.[8]

References
  1. "Our Story | PETTIBONE". www.gopettibone.com. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  2. "Pettibone Mulliken Corp". www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  3. "Trust to Control Switches". The Philadelphia Record. July 31, 1899.
  4. "Pettibone Mulliken Company". The Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. May 12, 1929.
  5. "Midwest Gets 7 Contracts: Awards of Nearly 35 Millions Made By Government". The Warsaw Union. Warsaw, Indiana. September 27, 1940.
  6. "Busy Wheels Of U.S. Defense". The Leader-Post. Regina, Saskatchewan. June 30, 1941.
  7. "Rail Insider-Technology update: Material handling equipment 2021". Progressive Railroading. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  8. Solomon, Brian (2001). Railway maintenance equipment. Osceola, Wis.: MBI Pub. Co. pp. 64, 65, 70. ISBN 0-7603-0975-2. OCLC 46976669.
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