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The Company, initially known as W. H. Allen & Co was founded in 1880 by William Henry Allen as a manufacturer of centrifugal pumps and steam engines in York Street, Lambeth, London. [1] [2] Electric light generating machinery followed with the support of Gisbert Kapp.
Wisconsin's fame came from its small air-cooled engines, such as AEH (used on generators, garden tractors, skidsteers tractors), AEN, and VF4. [1] In the 1950s they were able to claim they were the world's largest manufacturer of heavy-duty air-cooled engines.
A PTO at the rear end of a farm tractor A PTO (in the box at the bottom) in the center of the three-point hitch of a tractor. A power take-off or power takeoff (PTO) is one of several methods for taking power from a power source, such as a running engine, and transmitting it to an application such as an attached implement or separate machine.
Dover Corporation is an American conglomerate manufacturer of industrial products. [3] The Downers Grove, Illinois-based company was founded in 1955. [3] [4] As of 2021, Dover's business was divided into five segments: Engineered Products, Clean Energy and Fueling, Imaging & Identification, Pumps & Process Solutions and Climate and Sustainability Technologies. [5]
The ISPC merged Blake and Knowles Steam Pump Works, Ltd. (BKSPW), Worthington Pump Works and other companies that together made up a large part of total American capacity for making steam pumps. [12] The company's products were diverse, including the elevators for the Eiffel Tower. [10] Worthington Pump Works was the largest of the merged firms ...
The company was now pushed to develop generators, compressors and pumps of the same quality. In 1959 the company was constituted as Jenbacher Werke AG, the main shareholders being Creditanstalt with 35% and Mannesmann with 26%, the rest being free float .
The company was started in 1903 as Lee Stroyer, a joint venture by Jens Stroyer and Pelham Lee.In 1905, following the departure of Stroyer, it was relocated to Paynes Lane, Coventry, and renamed as Coventry Simplex by Horace Pelham Lee, [1] a former Daimler employee, who saw an opportunity in the nascent internal combustion engine market.
The widespread use of their distinctive wind pumps on ranches throughout the arid plains and deserts of the United States has made their design a quintessential image of the American West. The company also manufactured galvanized steel fire lookout towers including a "7 x 7" model which supported a 7-by-7-foot (2.1 m × 2.1 m) steel cab at ...