URSUS
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Polish maker of tractors and agricultural machines from Dobre Miasto, with a history that runs from a post-war farm-machinery factory to bankruptcy and a new owner.
- Factory founded
- 1946, Dobre Miasto (Agromet-Warfama)
- Renamed Ursus
- 2012 (previously POL-MOT Warfama)
- Court declared bankruptcy
- 13 July 2021
- Bought by M.I. Crow
- October 2024, for PLN 74 million
The factory in Dobre Miasto began in 1946 as the state-owned Warmia Agricultural Machinery Factory, Agromet-Warfama, first making simple Jutrzenka threshers. Privatization began in 1996, and in 1997 the successor company POL-MOT Warfama was formed and became a joint-stock company. After the Ursus brand was bought in 2011 the company took the name Ursus in 2012.
Ursus specialised in tractors, agricultural machines and trailers, and also made trolleybuses, buses and electric passenger cars and pellet and biomass production lines. It had works in Dobre Miasto and Lublin, was listed on the Warsaw stock exchange from December 2007 to October 2022 and entered restructuring on 17 November 2020. The court declared the company bankrupt on 13 July 2021, and in October 2024 it was bought by M.I. Crow for PLN 74 million.
- 1946Agromet-Warfama founded at Dobre Miasto
- 1997POL-MOT Warfama company formed
- 2012Company renamed Ursus
- 2020Restructuring begins
- 2021Bankruptcy declared
- 2024Bought by M.I. Crow
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URSUS Ursus U-710: the heavy prototype that never was
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URSUS Ursus MF-235: the licensed Massey Ferguson
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URSUS Ursus C-451: the Bulldog made easier to use
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URSUS Ursus C-45: the Lanz Bulldog built in Warsaw
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URSUS Ursus C-385: the Polish-Czechoslovak heavy tractor
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URSUS Ursus C-360: the Polish farm workhorse
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URSUS Ursus C-355: the 45 hp step before the C-360
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URSUS Ursus C-330: the Polish farm icon
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URSUS Ursus C-328: the 28 hp light tractor of the 1960s
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URSUS Ursus 912: the 80 hp four-cylinder Ursus
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URSUS Ursus 4514: the four-wheel-drive 4512
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URSUS Ursus 3512: the 48 hp successor to the MF-255
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URSUS Ursus 2812: the Massey Ferguson licence, renamed
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URSUS Ursus 1634: the turbocharged 155 hp Ursus
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URSUS Ursus 1614: the 155 hp heavy tractor from Warsaw