Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Harley-Davidson Motor Company Factory No. 7 is a factory building of the Harley-Davidson company in Milwaukee listed on the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places. It was at this plant where the company invented and refined the automated system for casting and milling engine parts and wheel hubs for their motorcycles, which helped to secure the company's position as a leader in motorcycle ...
Manufacturing industry strikes in Canada (4 P) Manufacturing industry labor disputes in the United States (1 C, 48 P) C. Cigar makers strikes (4 P) S.
Workers traveled and occupied places other than factories as well. In January 2001, there was a 6-day strike over unpaid wages. In April 2001, there was a 34-day strike over outstanding wages. These strikes were followed by many other occupations and strikes that ultimately cause the factories to lose almost 50% of their production. [8]
In 1971, American Machine and Foundry was renamed AMF. For many years, the company produced a wide variety of sport and leisure equipment, including Roadmaster bicycles, Harley-Davidson motorcycles (1969–1981), Head snow skis and tennis racquets (1969–1985), snowmobiles, lawn and garden equipment, (including manufacturing for Sears Craftsman.
When the company was started, it initially produced its motorcycles largely from Harley-Davidson parts. [5] By 1996, Big Dog had sold 100 motorcycles. [ 4 ] By 1997, the company had reached $2 million in sales, and in 2000, the company had expanded so much that a move to a new, 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m 2 ) factory and world headquarters ...
Jeffrey L. Bleustein is an American business executive, and the former Chief executive officer of Harley-Davidson.He is credited with helping save the company from possible bankruptcy in the 1980s, and leading the company's resurgence as the dominant motorcycle manufacturer in the United States.
Archaeologists discovered a wooden Celtic burial chamber inside a southern Germany burial mound. Dated to between 620 and 450 B.C., these mounds were reserved for high-ranking individuals.
Infuriated, the crowd began hurling stones, bricks and bottles at the sheriff's deputies. A fire hose was turned on the crowd, but the mob seized it and turned the hose back on the deputies. Many deputies fled inside the plant gates, and Auto-Lite managers barricaded the plant doors and turned off the lights.