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Fairbanks, Morse & Co. was formed and its Beloit plant established: Charles H. Morse consolidated the various interests in 1893 and 1894, and the plant was established in Beloit in 1894 by the consolidation of the Eclipse Windmill Company and the Williams Engine and Clutch Pulley Works.

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Charles H. Morse, of Chicago, became prominently identified with the work and, after adding several important lines of manufacture, in 1893 and 1894 finally consolidated the various interests as Fairbanks, Morse & Co., of which company the various buildings and yards now cover fifty acres of land.

Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.Vol. 1, PDF p. 188 / book p. 170

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e Wind Engine and Clutch Pulley Works, all of which were later sold out and consolidated in what is now known as the Fairbanks-Morse Manufacturing Company, which alike of its kind, in the multiplicity of its practical products with its large and ingenious sales department, has no equal in this or any country. The plant occupies fifty acres and has more than a quarter of this under roof, providing over 500,000 square feet of floor space. This plant was established in Beloit in 1894 by Fairbanks, Morse & Co., by the consolidation of the Eclipse Windmill Company and the Williams Engine and Clutch Pulley Works, the former of which had been in operation in Beloit since 1872. From small beginnings in the early part of the last century as Vermont scale manufacturers the Fairbanks-Morse Company has grown into a powerful concern in the manufacture and selling of its products. The company foresaw the coming of the tremendous development in the manufacture and use of gasoline for power and installed in Beloit what has quickly grown to be the greatest gas and gaso- line engine manufacturing plant in the world. The

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1894

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Charles H. Morse, of Chicago, became prominently identified with the work and, after adding several important lines of manufacture, in 1893 and 1894 finally consolidated the various interests as Fairbanks, Morse & Co., of which company the various buildings and yards now cover fifty acres of land.

2BInstitutional web page

e Wind Engine and Clutch Pulley Works, all of which were later sold out and consolidated in what is now known as the Fairbanks-Morse Manufacturing Company, which alike of its kind, in the multiplicity of its practical products with its large and ingenious sales department, has no equal in this or any country. The plant occupies fifty acres and has more than a quarter of this under roof, providing over 500,000 square feet of floor space. This plant was established in Beloit in 1894 by Fairbanks, Morse & Co., by the consolidation of the Eclipse Windmill Company and the Williams Engine and Clutch Pulley Works, the former of which had been in operation in Beloit since 1872. From small beginnings in the early part of the last century as Vermont scale manufacturers the Fairbanks-Morse Company has grown into a powerful concern in the manufacture and selling of its products. The company foresaw the coming of the tremendous development in the manufacture and use of gasoline for power and installed in Beloit what has quickly grown to be the greatest gas and gaso- line engine manufacturing plant in the world. The

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