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Fairbanks-Morse

Fairbanks, Morse and Company was an American manufacturing company in the late 19th and early 20th century. Originally a weighing scale manufacturer, it later diversified into pumps, engines, windmills, coffee grinders, radios, farm tractors, feed mills, locomotives, and industrial supplies until it was purchased by Penn Texas in 1958.[1]

Predecessor

Fairbanks scales, Eclipse Windmill

Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, United States (1823)

Purchased by Arcline Investment Management from Enpro Industries Inc. as of 1/21/2020

Fairbanks Scales, Fairbanks Morse, Fairbanks Nijhuis

United States

World

Scales, Windmills, Engines, Tractors, Radios, Pumps, Locomotives.

There are three separate corporate entities that could be considered successors to the company, none of which is a complete and direct descendant of the original company. All claim the heritage of Fairbanks Morse and Company:

Corporate disposition[edit]

Fairbanks Morse and Company merged with Penn-Texas Corporation in 1958 to form Fairbanks Whitney Corporation. Fairbanks Whitney was reorganized as Colt Industries in 1964, taking the name from Colt Manufacturing, the maker of firearms and an asset of Penn-Texas. In 1988, the Fairbanks Morse Pump division was sold off to private investors to become Fairbanks Morse Pump. It was subsequently purchased by Pentair as part of an acquisition of General Signal Pump Group in 1997. In 1988, the scale business was sold off by Colt Industries and became Fairbanks Scales, still an independent company.


In 1990, Colt Industries sold its firearms business to C.F. Holdings Corp as Colt's Manufacturing Company, Inc. and became Coltec Industries, Inc., which later became a subsidiary of EnPro Industires, Inc. EnPro was then the parent company of Fairbanks Morse Engine until January 21, 2020, when Fairbanks Morse was sold to Arcline Investment Management.


As a result, there are now three companies using either the Fairbanks or Fairbanks Morse trademarks, with lineage to the original Fairbanks Morse and Company. Fairbanks Scale and Fairbanks Morse Pump claim lineage back to E & T Fairbanks Company.

In the 1990s, Fairbanks Morse merged with to make the FM | ALCO line. In October 2013, FM signed a joint development and licensing agreement with Achates Power to reduce emissions and fuel consumption of Fairbanks Morse proprietary and dual-fuel opposed-piston engines.[20] The opposed-piston (OP) diesel engine once made by Fairbanks-Morse is still (August 2019) manufactured.[21] Also, Fairbanks-Morse still (November 2021) manufactures large four-stroke diesel engines such as the FM 48/60 CR series, which ranges from 7,200 to 19,200 kWm in output.[22]

ALCO

Fairbanks Scales has dropped the Morse from the name as most scales made by FM had.

Fairbanks Nijhuis makes pumps.

List of Fairbanks-Morse locomotives

Fairbanks Morse 38 8-1/8 diesel engine

Fairbanks Morse Defense

Lamb, J. Parker (2007). Evolution of the American Diesel Locomotive. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.  978-0-253-34863-0.

ISBN

. PSRM Diesel Locomotives. Archived from the original on October 25, 2014. Retrieved October 25, 2014.

"Fairbanks-Morse 38D8 Diesel Locomotive"

Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide. Kalmbach Publishing Co., Milwaukee, WI.  0-89024-026-4.

ISBN

Wendel, C.H. (1993). Fairbanks Morse: 100 Years of Engine Technology (reprint). Stemgas Publishing Co., Lancaster, PA.

Wendel, C.H. (1987). Power in the Past, Vol. 2; A History of Fairbanks-Morse and Co. (reprint). Stemgas Publishing Co., Lancaster, PA.

Fairbanks Morse website

(HAER) No. VT-1, "E. & T. Fairbanks & Company Factory, Sleepers River, Saint Johnsbury, Caledonia County, VT", 4 photos, 1 data page, 1 photo caption page

Historic American Engineering Record

HAER No. VT-1-A, "", 15 photos, 2 measured drawings, 2 data pages, 1 photo caption page

E. & T. Fairbanks & Company, Two-Story Covered Bridge