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Waukesha-Pearce
Attn: Human Resources
12320 S. Main
Houston, Texas 77035
Office: 713-723-1050
Fax: 713-551-0314
www.wpi.com

Waukesha-Pearce is an equal opportunity employer.

1924 - The Texas oilfield boom was at a peak and an enterprising businessman saw the need for a prime mover for a small oilfield drilling rig. Louis M. Pearce, Sr. founded the Portable Rotary Rig Company, the forerunner of the flourishing enterprise that today is known world-wide as Waukesha-Pearce Industries, Inc.

1933 - The future was shaped when Mr. Pearce negotiated the Texas distributorship of Waukesha engines with the Waukesha Motor Company of Waukesha, Wisconsin. (Despite the similarity of corporate identification, there is no proprietary link between Waukesha-Pearce Industries, Inc. and the Waukesha Motor Company) The company's first branch operation was opened at Greggton, Texas.

In 1934, Louis M. Pearce, Jr. joined the company. World War II - The company ended its manufacture of drilling rigs and became Waukesha Sales & Service, Inc. Additional branches were opened at Dallas, Wichita Falls, Corpus Christi and Odessa, Texas and New Iberia and Shreveport, Louisiana.

1950's - Accurately predicting a decline in oil exploration activity, Louis Pearce, Jr. shifted the accent of the company's endeavors to the newly emerging natural gas transmission industry. Another move toward diversification came in 1955 with the formation of Pearce Equipment Company to market and service construction machinery. Branches in San Antonio and Abilene were opened in 1955.

1962 - Louis M. Pearce, III joined the company.

1967 - Waukesha-Pearce Industries, Inc. was created by merging Waukesha Sales & Service and Pearce Equipment Company. The previous companies became operating divisions.

1970's - New branches were opened in Oklahoma City and Woodward, Oklahoma in 1970 and Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1974.

In 1972, Pearce Industries, Inc. was formed and became the parent company of WPI and Texas Iron Works.

1980's - In 1986, WPI acquired the assets of Plains Machinery Company. A new branch was opened in Austin, Texas in 1985.

In 1989, WPI acquired the assets of W. W. Williams Co.

1990's - WPI acquired the assets of Houston Heavy Equipment in 1990. A branch was opened in Beaumont, Texas in 1996.

As WPI approaches three quarters of a century of growth and service to our customers, our commitment to provide world-class products backed up by world-class product support stands as strong today as it was in 1924 when the company was founded.

Today, WPI is made up primarily of two different divisions, the Engine Division and the Construction Division. Together we make Waukesha-Pearce Industries, Inc. - The Power People.

WPI Engine Division
Waukesha-Pearce's reputation for superior quality and responsive service has been 70 years in the making. Since 1924, Waukesha-Pearce has been designing, packaging, and servicing all types of rotating equipment, including generators, pumps, blowers, and gas compressors. There were six of us when we first started out. Back then our company fleet consisted of a single Ford Model T (retrofitted - of course - with a dependable Waukesha engine). Today we're WPI, Waukesha-Pearce Industries, the world's largest Waukesha distributor and representative for many of the finest manufacturers in our field. Our 14 Southwestern US locations employ more than five hundred engineering, technical, packaging, production and support personnel. All over the world, Waukesha-Pearce systems are at work. From landfills to hospitals, breweries to waste water treatment plants, production platforms to refineries, WPI packages are quietly living up to their reputation. Throughout the years, we've maintained a simple, but unwavering commitment to our customers: WE SERVICE WHAT WE SELL, AND WE DO THIS BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE.

The Construction Machinery Division of Waukesha-Pearce Industries, Inc. was formed in 1955. More than forty years later, the division is recognized as an industry leader among construction and mining equipment distributors. In fact, WPI's Construction Machinery Division is frequently ranked as the largest distributor of Komatsu products in the U.S.

Komatsu America International's highest award, the Chairman's Award for Excellence, has been given to WPI CMD for 1994,1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998. WPI CMD distributes Komatsu's full line of utility, construction and mining equipment, including crawler dozers that range from the smallest unit marketed by a major manufacturer in North America, model D21A-7 rated at 40 horsepower, to the world's largest dozer the Komatsu D575A-2 Super Dozer rated at 1,150 horsepower, and weighing over 314,000 pounds. But the products do not stop with dozers. Also available are a full line of Komatsu wheel loaders, hydraulic excavators, motor graders, mobile crushers and off highway mining trucks.

WPI CMD is also a distributor for DressTa dozers and wheel loaders, Galion cranes and motor graders. DressTa and Galion are part of the Komatsu family of fine products.

Other products available from WPI CMD are Bomag compaction units, Gradall extendable boom excavators, Kolberg Pioneer Inc. crushers, conveyors and screens, JCI Crushers, LaBounty shears and various attachments from ESCO, Pierce Pacific, Young Corp., JRB, Hensley, Mega and Allied.

But fine products do not tell the whole story of WPI's Construction Machinery Division. Product support after the sale is the key to why so many of our customers come back to us again and again. A "can-do" attitude prevails among all of our product support personnel and customers have come to expect and receive the best. Our Project 2000 is designed to develop innovative ways to stay on the leading edge of product support.

Rounding out our offering to the utility, construction and mining markets are rental machines that can be rented for a short term or purchased on a rent-to-own plan. Financing options of all kinds are available.

WPI's Construction Machinery Division - Outstanding products, outstanding people, outstanding service.