# Busch-Sulzer

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{{Infobox company
|name = Busch-Sulzer Bros. Diesel Engine Company
|type = 
|founded = 1911, predecessors from 1898
|founder = [Adolphus Busch](/source/Adolphus_Busch)
|fate = Dissolved late 1940s
|key_people = *Adolphus Busch
*[Rudolph Diesel](/source/Rudolph_Diesel)
|industry = [Diesel engines](/source/Diesel_engines)
|products = Naval and commercial diesel engines
}}
The '''Busch-Sulzer Bros. Diesel Engine Company''' was founded by [Adolphus Busch](/source/Adolphus_Busch) of the [Anheuser-Busch](/source/Anheuser-Busch) brewing company in 1911 as a joint venture with [Sulzer Brothers](/source/Sulzer_Brothers) of [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland). The company manufactured [diesel engine](/source/diesel_engine)s until 1946.

In 1897, Adolphus Busch acquired [rights to build](/source/Licensed_production) diesel engines in the United States, with [Rudolph Diesel](/source/Rudolph_Diesel) as a consultant.{{Citation needed|date=October 2019}} The first companies resulting from this were the '''Diesel Motor Company''' (1898&ndash;1902) of [New York City](/source/New_York_City) and the '''American Diesel Engine Company''' (1902&ndash;1911), which relocated to [St. Louis](/source/St._Louis), [Missouri](/source/Missouri) in 1908 and was succeeded by Busch-Sulzer.<ref>Cummings, C. Lyle, ''Diesel's Engine: From Conception to 1918''. Carnot Press, 1993. {{ISBN|0-91730-803-4}}. p. 10-15</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/stream/dieselengine00buscrich/dieselengine00buscrich_djvu.txt  ''The Diesel Engine''], Busch-Sulzer Bros. Diesel Engine Company, 1913. p. 11-13</ref><ref>Weir, Gary. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3rqCjyNzB4oC  ''Building American Submarines 1914-1940'']. University Press of the Pacific, 2000 {{ISBN|0-89875-066-0}}. p. 14-16</ref> Although Busch acquired the rights to build Sulzer designs with the formation of Busch-Sulzer, the American joint venture preferred its own designs. The first [submarine](/source/submarine)s with Busch-Sulzer engines were the [United States L-class submarine](/source/United_States_L-class_submarine)s L-5 through L-8, designed by the [Lake Torpedo Boat](/source/Lake_Torpedo_Boat) Company and launched 1916–17.<ref>{{cite book | last = Gardiner | first = Robert | author2 = Gray, Randal | title = Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921 | publisher = Conway Maritime Press | year = 1985 | location = London | page = 129 | isbn = 0-85177-245-5 }}</ref> Busch-Sulzer continued to produce engines for the [US Navy](/source/US_Navy) and other customers through [World War II](/source/World_War_II), after which its assets were sold to the [Nordberg Manufacturing Company](/source/Nordberg_Manufacturing_Company) of [Milwaukee, Wisconsin](/source/Milwaukee%2C_Wisconsin).<ref>Krebs, Roland and Orthwein, Percy. [http://www.subvetpaul.com/Diesel_Engines.html ''Making Friends is Our Business: 100 Years of Anheuser-Busch'']. Anheuser-Busch, 1952. Ch. 26.</ref>

Then-Lieutenant (and future Admiral) [Chester W. Nimitz](/source/Chester_W._Nimitz) studied Diesel engines in [Germany](/source/Germany) for the United States Navy in 1913. Busch-Sulzer tried to hire him, but he turned them down.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}

==References==
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* [http://www.derbysulzers.com/usa.html Busch-Sulzer-powered locomotives in the US]

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