Eclipse Machine Division

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Steel Pulley and Machine Company
Eclipse Bicycle Company
Eclipse Manufacturing Company
Eclipse Bicycle Company
Eclipse Machine Division, Bendix Aviation Corporation
legal form
founding 1883
resolution 1966
Reason for dissolution reorganization
Seat Elmira , New York , USA
Branch Bicycles , automobiles

Eclipse Machine Division, Bendix Aviation Corporation , previously Steel Pulley and Machine Company , Eclipse Bicycle Company, and Eclipse Manufacturing Company , was an American manufacturer of vehicles .

Company history

Harmon H. Fulton founded the Steel Pulley and Machine Company in Indianapolis , Indiana in 1883 . One plant was in Beaver Falls , Pennsylvania . On August 12, 1895, it moved to Elmira in the US state of New York . By 1896 at the latest it traded as the Eclipse Bicycle Company . From 1890 it manufactured bicycles . In 1896 there were attempts with a horseless carriage that did not go into production. One source, contrary to others, states that on December 12, 1902, the name was changed to Eclipse Machine Company . In 1904 a few automobiles were made that were marketed as Eclipse . For this purpose, the company name was Eclipse Manufacturing Company that year and then again Eclipse Bicycle Company .

In 1928 the company was taken over by Bendix and in 1938 the name was changed to Eclipse Machine Division . In 1944, the company was called Eclipse Machine Division, Bendix Aviation Company and was part of Bendix Aviation Corporation . An advertisement by the company is known from April 14, 1949.

In 1966, due to a reorganization, the company became the Motor Components Division . This company was taken over by Facet Enterprises in 1974 .

There were no affiliations with any of the other Eclipse-branded car manufacturers : Eclipse Automobile Company , Eclipse Machine Company (Ohio) , Krueger Manufacturing Company , Eclipse Machine Company (Michigan), and Eclipse Motor Car Company .

Motor vehicles

The offer included only one model. The vehicles were driven by an air-cooled four-cylinder engine with an output of 20 hp . The chassis had a wheelbase of 239 cm . The body shape was an open touring car .

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 515 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 480-481 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 515 (English).
  2. George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 480-481 (English).
  3. a b c d e Dave Stromberger: History of Eclipse Bicycle Company / Eclipse Machine Division (English, accessed on January 13, 2018)
  4. a b c d MC 07 Eclipse Machine Company (accessed January 13, 2018)
  5. ^ Advertisement dated April 14, 1949 in the Courier Journal (English, accessed January 13, 2018)