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|industry = Roller coaster design |num_employees = 37 (2012) |homepage = }} Bolliger & Mabillard, abbreviated B&M and formally known as Bolliger & Mabillard Consulting Engineers Inc., is a roller coaster design consultancy based in Monthey, Switzerland. The company was founded in 1988 by Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard, with Bolliger as president and Mabillard as vice-president.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bolliger & Mabillard )〕 Since 1988, B&M has built 100 roller coasters around the world and have pioneered several new ride technologies, most notably the inverted roller coaster.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bolliger & Mabillard )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bolliger & Mabillard – Inverted Coaster )〕 Since 1990, all coasters designed by B&M that have been built within North America have been manufactured by Clermont Steel Fabricators which is located in Batavia, Ohio, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Typical Clermont Steel Fabrications )〕〔 B&M started with four employees and has since grown; as of 2012 it employs 37 people, mostly engineers and draftsmen. In 2016 the company will complete its 100th coaster. ==History== Walter Bolliger and Claude Mabillard starting working for Giovanola, a manufacturing company who supplied rides to Intamin, in the 1970s. During their time at Giovanola, they helped design the company's first stand-up roller coaster, ''Shockwave'' at Six Flags Magic Mountain. They also worked on other projects, such as ''Z-Force'' at Six Flags Great America. Bolliger & Mabillard left Giovanola, but the company continued to use their track design, so the company's roller coasters, ''Goliath'' at Six Flags Magic Mountain and ''Titan'' at Six Flags Over Texas, use a track style very similar to B&M's. In 1987, Giovanola underwent a change of management; Bolliger & Mabillard decided to leave, and founded their own company.〔 At the time, B&M employed four people; two draftsmen, Bolliger and Mabillard. When B&M was created, the pair had agreed not to make any more amusement attractions.〔〔 However, Six Flags contacted the new company and asked it to build a roller coaster. B&M accepted the offer and hired two more draftsmen. But B&M had a problem regarding how and where to manufacture the track pieces for the roller coaster. With the impression of the work done by Clermont Steel Fabricators on ''Vortex'' at Kings Island and ''Shockwave'' Six Flags Great America, Walter Bolliger went to the steel plant and asked if they would be interested in manufacturing the track. Clermont Steel Fabricators accepted and currently manufactures all Bolliger and Mabillard roller coaster track pieces for all of North America. Now with a company to manufacture the track, B&M built its first roller coaster, a stand-up roller coaster, ''Iron Wolf'', which opened in 1990 at Six Flags Great America.〔〔 Two years later, Bolliger & Mabillard built another project for Six Flags Great America, ''Batman: The Ride'', the world's first Inverted Coaster, which brought them to prominence in the industry.〔 Bolliger & Mabillard also invented the Floorless Coaster, and the Dive Coaster. The company also built its first launched roller coaster, the ''The Incredible Hulk'', which is at Universal's Islands of Adventure. Although The Incredible Hulk uses a launch system, B&M classifies it as a "Sitting Coaster".〔 In 2010, B&M unveiled its new Wing Coaster and premiered the prototype model, named ''Raptor'', at Gardaland in 2011. It has two seats on each side on the car that hang riders over the sides of the track. There are currently only five in operation.〔 In 2015, B&M constructed ''Thunderbird'' at Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, its first in-house launched coaster. By 2010, B&M employed twelve engineers, twelve draftsman, and two draftswomen. The company has made other contributions to the roller coaster industry. The company built the trains for the ''Psyclone'', a now-demolished wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain. The trains are currently used on the park's ''Colossus'' wooden roller coaster, but these are only used during October each year. The trains face backwards and are generally raced against trains on the second track, which runs forwards. In 2013, B&M supplied new trains for Steel Dragon 2000, built by D. H. Morgan Manufacturing in 2000. As of 2012, Bolliger & Mabillard has 85 operating roller coasters worldwide,〔 twenty-two of which are listed among the ''Amusement Today'' Golden Ticket Awards Top 50 Steel Coasters List for 2012, and five are in the top 10. The company has built more roller coasters than any other manufacturer on the list. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bolliger & Mabillard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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