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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
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by Harmon H. Fulton. It moved to
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in 1892 and again in 1895 to
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. Then, in 1914, the company started manufacturing automobile starter motors under license from the
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and in 1929 was acquired by Bendix outright. By 1939, the company had been combined with
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under a new roof at a factory in
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. 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.


References

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