Eclipse Machine Company
Formerly
  • Steel Pulley & Machine Company
  • Eclipse Bicycle Company
Industry
Founded1883 (1883)
FounderHarmon H. Fulton
Headquarters
Elmira Heights, New York
,
United States
Parent

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

  1. ↑ Annual Report for Year 1929, Chicago, Illinois: Bendix Aviation Corporation, 19 March 1930, retrieved 7 September 2021 – via Smithsonian Institution
  2. ↑ "Eclipse History 1". Dave's Vintage Bicycles. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "Eclipse History 3". Dave's Vintage Bicycles. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  4. ↑ "Bendix Awakens Brand New Hope in Tiny Borough". Bergen Evening Record. 29 September 1939. p. TS19. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  5. ↑ "Eclipse History 5". Dave's Vintage Bicycles. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
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