german trade unionist see carl windhoff windhoff founded 1899 founder rudolf windhoff parent georgsmarienh tte holding gmbh since 2002 1 website www.windhoff.com windhoff is a german manufacturer of specialised railways rolling stock and heavy industrial plant . the company was founded in 1889 . the company is well known for its cargosprinter rail vehicle and derivatives contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit the company started out as the rheiner maschinenfabrik machine factory rheine in rheine near m nster germany in 1889 manufacturing machines for the weaving industry and founded by rudolf windhoff . by 1901 the company was employing over 100 people . 2 as similar control mechanisms were used for steam driven automated weaving looms and for stream driven railway traversers and turntables rudolf windhoff also founded the motoren und fahrzeugfabrik gebr . windhoff windhoff brothers engine and vehicle factory . 2 in 1913 these two private companies were combined to form the share based rheiner maschinenfabrik windhoff windhoff machine factory rheine . this combined company suffered losses during the 1930s . later a bomb destroyed the manufacturing premises on 5 october 1944 . 2 in 1957 the company stopped manufacturing normal locomotives and start to concentrate on tracking machines ballast tampers . the windhoff company was first listed on the stock exchange in 1993 . 2 on 19 december 2001 3 the main company was declared bankrupt and the industrial plant and railway engineering divisions being taken over on 1 march 2002 3 to become part of georgsmarienh tte holdings gmbh . 2 the windhoff division as windhoff bahn und anlagentechnik gmbh windhoff railway and equipment technology continued to supply specialist railway vehicles and infrastructure with a team of around 250 people . 2 the company is an approved railway contractor for in the united kingdom sweden and norway . 4 products edit windhoff manufactures specialised rail vehicles including the diesel freight multiple unit the cargosprinter and the windhoff mpv used for infrastructure and service trains as well as electric and diesel shunting machines shunting locomotives and stationary shunting equipment . the company also manufactures a wide variety of rail service equipment including lifting equipment traversers and turntables and equipment for wheelset maintenance including wheel and bogie drop machines and wheelset and bogie measuring equipment . 5 windhoff has a contract to supply network rail with a factory train which will be used by amey plc in the great western electrification project . 6 the company also manufactures equipment for heavy industrial plants including steel works equipment including ladle transporters and tippers torpedo wagons in association with iag magnum and machinery for steel coil handling . 7 references edit new owners for windhoff . worldcargo news . 2002 03 . windhoff ag in rheine known for its special purpose vehicles for railway maintenance including cargo sprinter mpvs has been taken over by georgsmarienhutte holding check date values in date help a b c d e f portrait of enterprise . georgsmarienh tte group of companies . retrieved 2009 05 17 . a b merte jens . rheiner maschinenfabrik rheine in german . retrieved 2009 05 17 . windhoff railway workshop equipment and on track plant . spg media limited . archived from the original on april 27 2009 . retrieved 2009 05 17 . further bespoke vehicles are fire fighting and rescue trains and freight multiple units fmus on mpv basis . windhoff website rail technologies march 2012 windhoff to build network rail s electrification factory train . railway gazette international . 5 december 2011 . windhoff website plant technologies march 2012 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to windhoff . windhoff gmbh online www.windhoff.com in german and english company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title windhoff & oldid 738659623 categories rolling stock manufacturers of germanyhidden categories cs1 errors datescs1 german language sources de articles containing german language textcommons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 10 september 2016 at 09 12 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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