Eclipse Machine Company

Formerly|

* Steel Pulley & Machine Company
* Eclipse Bicycle Company

Industry|

* Aerospace
* Bicycles

Founded| 1883 (1883)
Founder| Harmon H. Fulton
Headquarters|

Elmira Heights, New York

United States

Parent|

* Electric Auto-Lite Company[1]
* Bendix Aviation

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, http://sova.si.edu/details/NASM.XXXX.0091#ref1117, retrieved 7 September 2021
2. ↑ "Eclipse History 1". http://www.nostalgic.net/history-of-eclipse/eclipse-history-1.
3. ↑ "Eclipse History 3". http://www.nostalgic.net/history-of-eclipse/eclipse-history-3.
4. ↑ "Bendix Awakens Brand New Hope in Tiny Borough". Bergen Evening Record: p. TS19. 29 September 1939. http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/489507530.
5. ↑ "Eclipse History 5". http://www.nostalgic.net/history-of-eclipse/eclipse-history-5.

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