Category:Machine tool builders

This is a subcategory of Category:Tool manufacturers, devoted specifically to machine tool builders. Subjects in this category will mostly be corporations, but it also applies to individuals of the "founding father" type (such as Bramah, Maudslay, Nasmyth, Whitworth, etc.). Later individuals serving as principals in corporations (such as W. Sellers, F. Pratt, A. Whitney, W.R. Warner, A. Swasey, J. Hartness, J. N. Lapointe, E.P. Bullard Sr & Jr, G. Gridley, E. Fellows, W. Gleason, J.E. Gleason, S. Yamazaki, etc.), when they have their own articles, are categorized here too, although (a) their respective corporations also are here and (b) some of these individuals do not warrant a separate article apart from their corporation's article.

Regarding nationality of corporations, it becomes progressively more meaningless as one travels down the timeline leading up to the present day, when most machine tool builders are (or are subsidiaries of) multinational corporations or conglomerates. With these companies it is enough to say "multinational corporation based in country X", "multinational corporation founded in country X", etc. Subcategories such as "American machine tool builders" or "Japanese machine tool builders" would be senseless because, for example, companies like Hardinge and Yamazaki-Mazak today have significant operations in many countries.ar:تصنيف:شركات تصنيع آلات تشغيل de:Kategorie:Werkzeugmaschinenhersteller ru:Категория:Производители станков и инструментов