Werkspoor N.V. was the shortened, and later the official name of the Nederlandsche Fabriek van Werktuigen en Spoorwegmaterieel.

After many years of heavy losses the financial world lacked confidence in this predecessor, the Koninklijke Fabriek van Stoom- en andere Werktuigen .

Nivel of the Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen[2] When the company (re)opened on 1 June 1891 it had 124 employees.

It gained some small orders for the navy, but rolling stock manufacture helped the company through the difficult first years.

[2] The company also had to spend a lot of money to restore the lack of maintenance of buildings and machinery during the last years of the Koninklijke Fabriek.

[4] In 1913, the manufacturing of railroad cars and steel constructions moved to industrial park Lage Weide in Zuilen, now a suburb of Utrecht.

A new factory complex for up to 6,000 employees was built, and to house them the village Nieuw-Zuilen was founded, which is now the city quarters Elinkwijk and De Lessepsbuurt.

In Utrecht, some famous bridges were built, as were the Waalbrug in Nijmegen and the Bommelse Brug near Zaltbommel.

In the first years after World War II there was a lot of work to repair the Dutch railroad and tramway stock.

Nevertheless, the long term perspective for the rolling stock division was not bright, because it only delivered to the Dutch market.

In addition to producing rolling stock, Werkspoor also remained active in machinery, in particular ship engines.

In 1930, KLM executive Albert Plesman ordered Werkspoor to create a cargoplane after a design by Joop Carley.

[6] In the 1950s the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United States planned to build 460 Hawker Hunter fighter jets.

In the late 1940s, 195 Crossley busses were built for local public transport companies owned by the Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

After that, Werkspoor did not build any more busses, however, seven years later it re-entered the market by request of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen, that wanted to prevent the big coachbuilder Verheul from gaining a monopoly.

In 1956, Werkspoor together with Philips, the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, and some Dutch universities built the Dwingeloo Radio Observatory.

After the Wilhelmina Gasthuis became part of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, the chamber moved to the Meibergdreef, where it is still used.

The first experiments with the use of ultracentrifuges for enriching uranium were executed by the Dutch physicist Dr. Jacob Kistemaker in the basements of Werkspoor in Amsterdam.

The lower level had items from the Dutch East Indies company, the first floor treated the industrial heritage of Werkspoor.