Defunct aircraft engine manufacturers of the United States

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Chapters: Allison aircraft engines, Curtiss aircraft engines, Wright aircraft engines, Allison V-1710, Packard, Garrett AiResearch, Wright R-975, Wright R-790, Wright R-760, Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone, Allison Engine Company, Curtiss OX-5, LeBlond Aircraft Engine Corporation, Wright R-540, Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, Wright R-1820, Marquardt Corporation, Allison T40, Wright R-2600, Hall-Scott, Allison J33, Allison Model 250, Nelson Aircraft, Allison T56, Curtiss H-1640, Allison J35, Wright R-1300, Wright Aeronautical, Curtiss V-1570, Wright Company, Allison V-3420, Teledyne Turbine Engines, Kinner Airplane & Motor Corporation, Curtiss D-12, Lawrance Aero Engine Company, Wright J65, Curtiss K-12, Curtiss C-6, Allison TF41, Franklin Engine Company, Curtiss R-600, Allison T38, Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division, Wright R-2160, Aeromarine, Allison J71, Curtiss V-2, Fairchild Industries, Axelson, Curtiss OXX, Warner Aircraft Corporation, Curtiss A-2, Ranger/Fairchild Engines, Jacobs Aircraft Engine Company, Rolls-Royce J102, Reaction Motors. Excerpt: Packard was an American luxury-type automobile marque built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899, and the last in 1958. Packard was founded by James Ward Packard (Lehigh University Class of 1884), his brother William Doud Packard and their partner, George Lewis Weiss, in the city of Warren, Ohio. James Ward Packard believed that they could build a better horseless carriage than the Winton cars owned by Weiss (an important Winton stockholder) and, being himself a mechanical engineer, had some ideas for improvement on the designs of current automobiles. The story goes: Packard was not completely satisfied with the Winton car he had recently purchased. He wrote Alexander Winton with his complaints and suggestions; however Mr. Winton, offended by Packard's criticism, challenged Packard to build a better car. Packard responded by doing so, his marque outlasting Winton's by many decades. Packard runs his first automobile in Warren, Ohio on November 6, 1899. In September, 1900, the Ohio Automobile Company was founded as the manufacturer, while the cars were always sold as Packards. Since these automobiles quickly gained an excellent reputation, and there were more automobile makers that produced - or at least planned to - under the label "Ohio", the name was changed soon: On October 13, 1902, it became the Packard Motor Car Company. From the very beginning, Packard automobiles introduced a number of innovations in its designs, including the modern steering wheel and, years later, the first production 12-cylinder engine. All Packards had a single-cylinder engine until 1903. While the Cole 30 and Colt Runabout were US$1,500, the high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout went for $650, Western's Gale Model A roadster was $500, and the Black went as low as $375, the Packards concentrated on cars with prices starting at $2,600. Packard automobiles d