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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 86. Chapters: Birmingham Small Arms Company, Eli Whitney, Jr., Joseph Whitworth, Marc Isambard Brunel, James Nasmyth, Henry Maudslay, Churchill Machine Tool Company, Ralph Flanders, James Hartness, Matthew Murray, Foundry products operations, Sylvester H. Roper, Parker Manufacturing Company, Greenwood & Batley, John Penn, Warner & Swasey Company, Edwin R. Fellows, Samuel Bentham, Kjellberg Finsterwalde, Verson Allsteel Press Co., Richard Roberts, Joseph Bramah, Hypertherm, Brown & Sharpe, Joseph Clement, William Sellers, Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company, Simeon North, Ambrose Swasey, Thomas Blanchard, Alfred Herbert, Coleman Sellers II, J. Schmalz GmbH, Dean, Smith & Grace, Pratt & Whitney Measurement Systems, Worcester Reed Warner, Van Norman, Atlas Press, George Rennie, Makino, Christopher Miner Spencer, Bullard Machine Tool Company, Gleason Corporation, Myford, Hindustan Machine Tools, Charles E. Billings, Mori Seiki, Miller Electric, Elisha K. Root, Bridgeport, South Bend Lathe Works, Francis A. Pratt, Sherline, Holtzapffel, James Fox, Associated British Machine Tool Makers, Boxford Lathe, Yih-Ho Michael Pao, Cincinnati Milling Machine Company, Amos Whitney, Yamazaki Mazak Corporation, Norton Abrasives, Praga Tools Limited, Vision Engraving & Routing Systems, Hardinge, Inc., Haas Automation. Excerpt: The Churchill Machine Tool Company Limited began as the manufacturing subsidiary of the machine tool importers Charles Churchill & Company Limited founded in the early 1900s by US-born Charles Churchill (1837-1916). Created out of the personal bankruptcy of Charles Churchill, the company developed to become one of the largest British importers of machine tools from the USA and a major manufacturer of such tools, initially under licence and later of its own development. The original business importing American machine tools into Brita...
