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line — once the pride of the company — had fallen to an all-time low. Bicycles made at the Olney plant were manufactured so poorly that some Midwestern bike shops refused to repair them, claiming that the bikes would not stay fixed no matter how much labor and effort was put into them. The division's problems with quality and outside competition were neatly summed up in a 1979 American film,
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By the late 1970s, the company encountered difficulties. The absence of stable management (the company had seven presidents between 1972 and 1982), aging production facilities, rising labor costs, and the inability of AMF to operate efficiently and control its many product divisions from headquarters
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After two decades of consistent growth, the AMF Wheel Goods Division stalled under the long-distance management of a parent company bogged down in layers of corporate management and marginally profitable product lines. Manufacturing quality as well as the technical standards of the Roadmaster bicycle
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Taking advantage of the increase in its target markets in the aftermath of the baby boom, AMF was able to diversify its product line, adding exercise equipment under the brand name Vitamaster in 1950. As demand for bicycles continued to expand, the company needed a new manufacturing facility to keep
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in the 1940s. To get the cash to develop the invention, Patterson swapped AMF stock to acquire eight small companies with fast-selling products. After incorporating key features developed by Leslie L. LeVeque, the AMF Pinspotter was perfected and put on the market in 1952, and helped to turn bowling
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bender, an automatic baked pretzel-twisting machine that rolled and tied them at the rate of 50 a minute, more than twice as fast as skilled hand twisters. It then conveyed them through the baking and salting process. To expand its line of recreational equipment, AMF bought W. J.
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line of children's and youth bicycles from the Cleveland Welding Company, American Machine and Foundry entered the bicycle manufacturing business with its newly formed AMF Wheel Goods Division. After a prolonged labor strike in 1953, AMF moved bicycle manufacturing from a
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equipment under the AMF brand. The gymnastics division was later spun off to form American Athletic (AAI) which used the same logo as AMF but with different text. New and improved exercycles, such as the Computrim line, the first to incorporate an
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problems in some product lines caused sales declines in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The company's vast diversified output proved difficult to efficiently manage and, after suffering a series of losses, the company sold off its operations.
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made AMF one of the pillars of the US military-industrial complex during the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1950s, the company won a contract for designing and constructing "a small 1 MW swimming pool-type reactor" at the
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In the late 1970s, in a reference to its numerous leisure product lines, the company began a TV advertising campaign centered on the slogan "AMF, we make weekends". For a short time, the company owned
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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,
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By 1961, AMF controlled and operated 42 plants and 19 research facilities in 17 different countries, producing everything from remote-controlled toy airplanes to
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in White Plains, New York, contributed to a steady decline in sales and profits. Unlike large Japanese corporations such as
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into the most popular US participative, competitive sport. AMF became a major manufacturer of pinsetters, bowling pins,
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snow skis and tennis racquets (1969–1985), snowmobiles, lawn and garden equipment, (including manufacturing for
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program". In a masterstroke of top executive recruitment, Patterson hired top US government cold warrior
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in Israel, which for a short time helped the Israelis conceal the fact that they were also building the
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In 1954, the company acquired Potter and Brumfield, a manufacturer of electrical relays.
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production was added in 1950. The company was once a major manufacturer of products from
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Fourth and final logo, used from 1970–1985, still used by AMF Bowling and its successors
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In the early 1960s, American Machine and Foundry partnered with the French company
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launching systems. AMF was the builder of the launching silos for the Titan and
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nywf64.com (1964/1965 New York World's Fair Website) story of the AMF Monorail
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was among the engineers working on the reactors AMF built in Pakistan and
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Co. (golfing equipment), and Wen-Mac Corp. (engine-powered toy airplanes).
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road racing bike, deriding the elderly Roadmaster as a "piece of junk".
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products as disparate as garden equipment, atomic reactors, and yachts.
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for military purposes elsewhere in the country with French assistance.
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Vandewater, Judith (July 7, 1985). "Bike Maker Is on the Road Again".
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the company ran neck-and-neck with
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Until the mid-1980s, AMF's range of consumer goods included powered
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Sands, David R., "Chinese Bikes Ruled No Threat To U.S. Makes",
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was part of AMF, and was able to secure the rights to the MR-12
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Karter, Peter (1967). "How to Dispose of Radioactive Wastes".
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up with demand. In 1962, the company moved its operations to
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for American cities. The AMF Monorail was exhibited at the
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In 1997, the Roadmaster bicycle division was sold to the
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in the construction of nuclear power reactors. AMF sold
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Logsdon, Gene (April 1993). "Mastermind of the MRF".
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Index

AMF, Inc.

Trade name
Private
Brooklyn
New York
Rufus L. Patterson Jr.
AMF Bowling
diversified
Rufus L. Patterson Jr.
New Jersey
Brooklyn
New York City
New York
World War II
Bicycle
tennis racquets
Atoms for Peace
Dwight D. Eisenhower
military-industrial complex
Walter Bedell Smith
Harry Truman
ambassador to the Soviet Union
director of the Central Intelligence Agency
model airplanes
snow skis
Ben Hogan
Voit
exercycles
Hatteras Yachts

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