Someone asked about when our good old McCulloch last manufactured saws...here is the best information I have been able to piece together regarding the McCulloch timeline:
1931 - R.P. McCulloch starts McCulloch Engineering in Milwaukee, WI building centrifugal superchargers. That business was later sold to Borg-Warner.
1943 – Changed the name to McCulloch Motors Corporation, primary products are drone engines for Radio Plane and chainsaw engines for Reed-Prentice.
1946 - Move to California, purchased land near what would become LAX (airport)
1964 - Opened plant operations in Lake Havasu, AZ
1974 - Sold to Black & Decker
1977 - R.P. McCulloch dies
1984 - Private/Employee owned
1988 - Moved to Tucson, AZ
1999 - Bankruptcy, Europe goes to Husqvarna, North America to Jenn Feng (Taiwan)
2003 - Jenn Feng & MTD sign a distribution agreement
March 2008 - Husqvarna acquires Jenn Feng, McCulloch is now a brand within Husqvarna
Robert Paxton McCulloch was married to Barbara Ann Briggs (Briggs & Stratton, yes that Briggs). I thought I had read that his uncle was Ralph Evinrude but I cannot find any confirmation of that. He was in direct competition with Evinrude and others when he bought Scott-Atwater and went into the production of outboard engines for boats...coincided with their move to Lake Havasu, AZ where they had an ideal testing site. There was an episode of the old television program "Route 66" based loosely on McCulloch's activities in the outboard engine game.
Mark
