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Allis-Chalmers

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Allis-Chalmers was a U.S. manufacturer of machinery for various industries. Its business lines included agricultural equipment, construction equipment, power generation and power transmission equipment, and machinery for use in industrial settings such as factories, flour mills, sawmills, textile mills, steel mills, refineries, mines, and ore mills. The first Allis-Chalmers Company was formed in 1901 as an amalgamation of the Edward P. Allis Company (steam engines and mill equipment), Fraser & Chalmers (mining and ore milling equipment), the Gates Iron Works (rock and cement milling equipment), and the industrial business line of the Dickson Manufacturing Company (engines and compressors). It was reorganized in 1912 as the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company.

Immediately at the war’s end, in 1945–1946, Allis-Chalmers endured a crippling 11-month labor strike.

During the next 70 years its industrial machinery filled countless mills, mines, and factories around the world, and its brand gained fame among consumers mostly from its farm equipment business’s orange tractors. In the 1980s and 1990s a series of divestitures transformed the firm and eventually dissolved it. Its successors today are Allis-Chalmers Energy and AGCO.

AlliedSignal

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The Allied Chemical & Dye Corporation originated with the 1920 merger of five chemical companies: Barrett Chemical Company (est. 1858), General Chemical Company (est. 1899), National Aniline & Chemical Company (est. 1917), Semet-Solvay Company (est. 1895), and the Solvay Process Company (est. 1881), with the backing of chemist William Nichols, who became concerned about dependence on the German chemical industry during World War I, and financier Eugene Meyer. The company renamed itself the Allied Chemical Corporation in 1958, then simply the Allied Corporation in 1981. Allied merged with the Bendix Corporation in 1983, beginning the company’s involvement in aerospace.

The merger of Allied and Signal made aerospace the new company’s largest business sector. The combined company adopted the name Allied-Signal on September 19, 1985. It dropped the hyphen to become AlliedSignal in 1993 to reinforce a one-company image and signify the full integration of all of its businesses. On December 1, 1999, AlliedSignal acquired Honeywell and took its more-recognizable name.

LHTEC (Light Helicopter Turbine Engine Company) is a joint venture between Rolls-Royce and Honeywell founded in 1985. The company was originally a partnership between the Allison Engine Company and AlliedSignal Aerospace. In 1995 Rolls-Royce acquired Allison, and AlliedSignal merged with Honeywell in 1999, and adopted its name.

By 1999, the headquaters were in Morristown, New Jersey, the net income was US$ 1.3 billion, revenue US$ 15.1 billion, from 70400 employees.

AlliedSignal was a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average for all of its existence until February 19, 2008.

Alliance Airplane Co

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Founded in London during the First World War by Lord Waring, and built large assemblies for Handley Page bombers. Shortly after the war amalgamated with the British Aerial Transport Co and British Nieuport & General Aircraft Co; also with other smaller companies including Ruffy, Arnell & Baumann Aviation Co. With last-named company the Alliance P.1 biplane trainer originated. For transatlantic attempt built (1919) a special P.2 Seabird biplane with 21 -hour endurance, powered by Napier Lion engine; a second example crashed attempting Australia flight

Alisport LLC

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Alisport Srl is comprised of three aviation divisions (sailplanes, STOL aircraft, and propellers/accessories) that operate in shared facilities.
Although Alisport’s origins are in the Silent line of light sailplanes, sport and recreation aviation is the common foundation binding the three divisions.
Alisport Srl is based in Cremella (Lecco) located in northern Italy near Milan.
1998: Vial Confalonieri 22, I-23894 Cremella LC, ITALY
2008:
Alisport Srl
Via Confalonieri, 22
Cremella (Lecco),
Italy

Alfaro, Heraclio

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Heraclio Alfaro was a Spanish aviator who was knighted at the age of 18 by King Alfonso XIII of Spain for designing, building, and flying Spain’s first airplane. He developed a barrel engine for aircraft use which was later produced by the Indian Motorcycle Company as the Alfaro. It was a perfect example of the “put in everything” design, as it included a sleeve valve system based on a rotating cylinder head, a design that never entered production on any engine. It was later developed further for use in the Doman helicopter by Stephen duPont, son of the president of the Indian Motorcycle Company, who had been one of Alfaro’s students at MIT.

Aircraft Engine & Development Co Inc,
Boston MA.
USA

Alexander Aircraft Co / Air Mechanics Inc

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1923: (Julian Don) Alexander Film Co
3385 So Broadway
Englewood CO.
USA

1924: Purchase of Longren Aircraft Co as Alexander Industries, and Alexander Flying School.

1925: Alexander Aircraft Co
Formed August 1925 at Colorado Springs, Colorado, as division of Alexander Industries Inc. then of Denver.

1928: Colorado Springs CO.

Concentrated on Eaglerock three-seat civil biplane with Curtiss OX-5 engine. When supplies of this cheap engine exhausted (1928), redesigned aircraft for other engines. Eleven Eaglerock biplanes still registered in USA in 1960s. D-2 was two-seat strut-braced high-wing cabin monoplane. Low-wing Bullet series designated by firearm calibers (.22, .32, .45 etc.).

Company succumbed to US financial depression, but continued manufacture as Air Mechanics Inc., and in 1934 designed a five-seat low-wing monoplane.

1932: Aircraft operations into bankruptcy.

1934: Reorganized as Aircraft Mechanics Inc
fdr: Proctor W Nichols, W F Theis
3200 N Nevada St
Colorado Springs.
USA

Air Mechanics Inc was a revival of Alexander Aircraft Company, partly by former employees. Conducted service department of Alexander products, and during the 1930s made D-1 and D-2 two-seater monoplanes of new design.