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unusual facts about Clark Equipment Company


Lima Locomotive Works

For a time, Clark Equipment Company manufactured Lima-brand construction cranes in the old plant.


Gama Goat

Several companies bid for the contract, including Clark, General Motors and LeTourneau, but the contract was awarded to Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) aerospace, best known for their A-7 Corsair II aircraft.

Nylint

In the immediate years to follow, through the mid-1960s, Nylint produced toys patterned after manufacturers such as LeTourneau, the J.D. Adams & Company of Indianapolis, the Frank G. Hough Company of Libertyville, Illinois, the Pettibone-Mulliken Corp. of Chicago, the Austin-Western Works of Aurora, Illinois, and the Clark Equipment Company of Benton Harbor, Michigan.


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