in Orlando, Fl.ĭuring Hodges’ seven years with Rockwell there were approximately 90,000 employees in seven divisions: the Valve Division with products for the gas and oil industry with plants located in Barberton, Ohio, Raleigh, NC, Sulfur Springs, Tx., and Kearney, Nebraska, the Gas Products Division of meters and regulators in Dubois, Pa, the Municipal Water Meter Division in Uniontown, Pa., the Power Tool Division in Syracuse, NY, Jackson, Tenn., Tupelo, Miss., and Columbia, SC, the Transportation Division in Atchison, Kansas with a large steel foundry of products for the automotive, railway and rapid-transit industry, the Sterling Faucet Division in Reedsville, WV, and the Engine Division in Pinneberg, Germany (ILO-Motorenwerke GMBH, founded 1911, acquired by Rockwell in 1959), manufacturing 2-cycle gas-driven motors for developing nation products including motor tillers, water pumps, sprayers, cement mixers, tampers and mopeds as well as snowmobile- and all-terrain vehicle engines for North America. Prior to Rockwell, Michael Hodges was a physicist with NASA and aerospace management with Martin-Marietta Corp. He was appointed member of the Board of Directors of Rockwell GMBH Germany and Dikkers Valve Products LLC Netherlands. Hodges - also served as Corporate Director Manufacturing and later as CEO and ‘Geschäftsführer’ (Managing Director) of the German-based Engine Division.
Joining the Pittsburgh-based Rockwell Manufacturing Company in 1968 as Corporate Director Quality Assurance, Michael W. and it became a subsidiary of the company. In 1968, Sterling Faucet Company was bought by Rockwell Manufacturing Co. It then purchased Miehle-Goss-Dexter, the largest supplier of printing presses, and in 1973, acquired Collins Radio, a major avionics supplier. Pittsburgh-based Rockwell Standard then acquired and merged with Los Angeles-based North American Aviation to form North American Rockwell in September 1967. and southern Ontario, and in 1958 renamed itself Rockwell-Standard Corporation. After various mergers with automotive suppliers, it comprised about 10 to 20 factories in the Upper Midwestern U.S. Timken-Detroit merged in 1953 with the Standard Steel Spring Company, forming the Rockwell Spring and Axle Company. In 1957, Walker-Turner operations were closed down in Plainfield, New Jersey and moved to Bellefontaine, Ohio and Tupelo, Mississippi. bought Walker-Turner from Kearney and Trecker. Since 1994, Rockwell power tools are now manufactured by Positec Tool Corporation Pentair's Tools group was acquired by Black & Decker in 2005. In 1981, Rockwell's power tool group was acquired by Pentair and re-branded Delta Machinery. In 1966, Rockwell invented the world's first power miter saw. In 1945, Rockwell Manufacturing Company acquired Delta Machinery and renamed it the Delta Power Tool Division of Rockwell Manufacturing Company and continued to manufacture in Milwaukee. ) in 1928, rising to become chairman of its board in 1940.
He merged his Oshkosh, Wisconsin-based operation with the Timken-Detroit Axle Company (current Meritor Inc.
General purpose UK-specification electric drill for home/hobby use purchased circa 1980 fitted with UK-standard BS1363 plug-topīoston-born Willard Rockwell (1888–1978) made his fortune with the invention and successful launch of a new bearing system for truck axles in 1919.
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