| LC control no. | n 80070266 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Singer Company |
| See also | Singer Manufacturing Company General Precision Equipment Corporation |
| Beginning date | 1963-05-15 |
| Ending date | 1989-10 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Field of activity | Sewing-machine industry Electronic industries Aerospace industries Electronic office machine industry |
| Found in | Eastley, C. The Singer saga, 1983: p. 17 (Singer Manufacturing Company changed name to Singer Company) NUCMC data from St. Univ. of N.Y. at Binghamton Libr. for Link, E.A. Papers, 1939-1981 (name not given; General Precision Equipment Corporation) N.Y. Times, Sept. 9, 1981 (Edwin A. Link org. Link Aviation, Inc., now Link Flight Simulator Division of the Singer Company; merged with General Precision Equipment Corporation in 1954; General Precision Equipment Corporation merged with Singer Company in 1968) Moody's Industrial Manual, 1985 (Singer Company merged with General Precision Equipment Corporation in July, 1968) Moody's industrial manual, 1967 : p. 1705 (The Singer Company; incorporated in New Jersey, February 20, 1873 as the Singer Manufacturing Company, successor to a company of the same name incorporated in New York State in 1863; originally a manufacturer of sewing machines; renamed The Singer Company on May 15, 1963, and began conglomerate diversification; acquired Friden, Inc., by an exchange of shares, October 1963) Singer Company records, 1951-1990 : (The Singer Company began conglomerate diversification in 1963 to compensate for the decline in home sewing, acquiring firms in electronics, aerospace and data processing; the sewing machine business was spun off to a separate subsidiary, SSMC, Inc., in 1986; after the 1987 stock market crash, The Singer Company was acquired by a corporate raider who quickly sold off eight of the twelve Singer divisions, including all rights to the Singer name; the much-shrunken company was renamed Bicoastal Corporation in October 1989) |
| Associated language | eng |
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