Borsig

Borsig was a German heavy engineering firm of Berlin whose works at Egells were founded in 1837 by August Borsig and continued by his son Albert Borsig. By 1841 a British parliamentary committee heard that its proprietor, who had been educated at the Gewerbe Institut, made chiefly heavy machinery in a manufactory near the Brandenburg Gate: steam engines, locomotives, hydraulic presses and other machines of power. Part of its tooling was imported from England and part was made in the firm's own shop, and the witness singled out a drilling machine that pressed the work upward onto the drill with a hydraulic press. A related Egells locomotive works closed in 1886, but other lines of business continued. The firm exhibited compound engines at the Berlin Industrial Exhibition in 1896, advertised steam and electrically driven ploughing tackle in 1897, and had London agents by 1907 who handled a catalogue of locomotives for industrial purposes.