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McCulloch Motors Corporation is an American manufacturer of chainsaws and other outdoor power tools. The company was founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1943 by Robert Paxton McCulloch as a manufacturer of small two-stroke gasoline engines and introduced its first chainsaw in 1948, the Model 5-49. McCulloch and its brand are owned by Husqvarna.
Inventor Robert Paxton McCulloch began producing superchargers to his design in 1937 for the Ford Flathead V8, a popular engine for performance modification at the time. The company estimates that around 5,000 were built before World War II stopped production. Postwar, McCulloch developed a more sophisticated supercharger and began selling it ...
Robert Paxton McCulloch was born May 11, 1911, in Missouri to Richard McCulloch and Mary Grace Beggs. [1] His grandfather, John I. Beggs, made his fortune by implementing Thomas Edison's electrical powerplants in cities around the world, manufacturing and selling electric trolley cars, and founding Milwaukee's public utility system.
3. RadioShack. Founded in 1921. Even after over 100 years in business and two bankruptcies, RadoShack is somehow still around.The company traces its beginnings back to amateur radio, though it ...
McCulloch acquired Helicopter Engineering Research Corp in 1951. It manufactured two innovative helicopter designs – the tandem-rotor MC-4 and the J-2 autogyro. Rights to the twin-rotor MC-4 was sold back to the original designer, Drago Jovanovich, in 1957. Rights to the J-2 autogyro were sold to Aero Resources (Gardena, California) in 1974.
A rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has sold for £36,000 after being bought for around just £10 in 1997. Christine McCulloch, who bought the book in Stratford-Upon ...
Bourbon Street has long been party central, and little changed in the hours after Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Friday outlined the direct link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk.
The MPI land business was slowing and MIA was operating only three Electras, a fourth was on short-term lease to Pacific Southwest Airlines and MIA had leased in a Douglas DC-8 which was flying mostly third-party charter business. McCulloch Properties wanted to step back and allow MIA to develop a third party business by re-equipping with jets.