Company:Eclipse Machine Company
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| Founded | 1883 |
| Founder | Harmon H. Fulton |
| Headquarters | Elmira Heights, New York , United States |
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The Eclipse Machine Company was an American bicycle and aircraft component manufacturer.
History
The Steel Pulley & Machine Company was founded in 1883 in Indianapolis, Indiana by Harmon H. Fulton. It moved to Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania in 1892 and again in 1895 to Elmira, New York.[2] Then, in 1914, the company started manufacturing automobile starter motors under license from the Bendix Corporation and in 1929 was acquired by Bendix outright.[3] By 1939, the company had been combined with Pioneer Instrument Company under a new roof at a factory in Teterboro, New Jersey.[4] During World War II, the company built timed anti-aircraft fuses and 20 mm aircraft cannon. It was the latter that spurred the construction of a second plant in 1940.[5]
References
- ↑ Annual Report for Year 1929, Chicago, Illinois: Bendix Aviation Corporation, 19 March 1930, http://sova.si.edu/details/NASM.XXXX.0091#ref1117, retrieved 7 September 2021
- ↑ "Eclipse History 1". http://www.nostalgic.net/history-of-eclipse/eclipse-history-1.
- ↑ "Eclipse History 3". http://www.nostalgic.net/history-of-eclipse/eclipse-history-3.
- ↑ "Bendix Awakens Brand New Hope in Tiny Borough". Bergen Evening Record: p. TS19. 29 September 1939. http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/489507530.
- ↑ "Eclipse History 5". http://www.nostalgic.net/history-of-eclipse/eclipse-history-5.
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