Eclipse Machine Company

Not to be confused with Eclipse Aviation.

The Eclipse Machine Company was an American bicycle and aircraft component manufacturer.

Eclipse Machine Company

Formerly	Steel Pulley & Machine Company Eclipse Bicycle Company
Industry	Aerospace Bicycles
Founded	1883 (1883)
Founder	Harmon H. Fulton
Headquarters	Elmira Heights, New York , United States
Parent	Electric Auto-Lite Company[1] Bendix Aviation

History

The Steel Pulley & Machine Company was founded in 1883 in Indianapolis, Indiana by Harmon H. Fulton. It moved to Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania in 1892 and again in 1895 to Elmira, New York.^[2] Then, in 1914, the company started manufacturing automobile starter motors under license from the Bendix Corporation and in 1929 was acquired by Bendix outright.^[3] By 1939, the company had been combined with Pioneer Instrument Company under a new roof at a factory in Teterboro, New Jersey.^[4] During World War II, the company built timed anti-aircraft fuses and 20 mm aircraft cannon. It was the latter that spurred the construction of a second plant in 1940.^[5]