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design, but were so successful in production that supply soon caught up with demand and Globe went out of business. TEMCO retained the rights to the design in 1947, producing it in small numbers for the next four years. Equipping the Swift with a much more powerful engine and tandem two-seat cockpit
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Williams, secretary & assistant treasurer; Joseph H. Baylis, industrial relations;
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fleet, and employment started increasing again. In 1955 they won a similar contract for the B-50, and by the end of the next year were up to 1,700 employees. By 1958 electronics was providing half of the company's income, but they continued to win overhaul contracts, including the C-121 and C-97.
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Prairie to be used primarily for Navy work. TEMCO, meanwhile, turned increasingly to overhaul services at their new Greenville plants, and won a contract to overhaul C-54's returning from the
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Through the 1970s LTV started divesting itself of its aviation holdings. The former Temco
Aircraft electronics plant at Greenville, by then known as LTV Electrosystems, became
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In addition to aircraft manufacturing, described below, TEMCO also produced many other products, mostly under contract to other companies. These included:
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Howard Jones, plant engineering, Ted H. Beck, aircraft engineering; Charles D. Collier, purchasing; John A. Maxwell, Jr., manufacturing control;
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Convair closed their Dallas plant, McCulloch joined with another NAA executive, H. L "Bert" Howard, to form the
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By 1960 electronics was their major product, and the company merged with another Dallas-area electronics firm,
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Temco was the brainchild of Robert McCulloch, who began his career in aircraft with the
Aircraft Division of
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This division also assembled a tractor for the
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systems. In 1955 they won a contract to produce "quick reaction kits" for the Air Force's
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Coin-operated "serve yourself" popcorn vending machine for the T. & C. Company
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was the manager of their new plant in the Dallas area at Grand
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751:Jones and Laughlin Steel Company
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408:Formation of Ling-Temco-Vought
342:to a twin-engine version, the
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684:Majors Field History
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351:aviation electronics
338:to convert existing
336:Riley Aircraft Sales
251:Venetian blind clips
204:Nashville, Tennessee
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826:George Dennick Wick
768:National Car Rental
488:Temco T-35 Buckaroo
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82:H. L "Bert" Howard
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821:James Ling
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414:Ling-Altec
458:known as
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