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Title: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Pigslilspaz on March 07, 2012, 03:17:38 AM
I've been trying to make a list of companies that contributed to the war effort on all sides of WWII, that do something other than war/defense industries nowadays, such as Boeing makes airliners, Mitsubishi made the A6M but now makes cars, and Daimler Benz, nowadays associated with the Mercedes, made tank and aircraft engines.

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Tupac on March 07, 2012, 03:54:38 AM
Ford was building B24s
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: MachFly on March 07, 2012, 04:09:24 AM
CompanyModern civilian products
Rolls-RoyceCars & Engines
GrummanGA aircraft & private jets
LockheedAirliners
DouglasAirliners
CessnaGA aircraft and private jets
PiperGA aircraft
JeepCars

That's all that I can think of.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: helbent on March 07, 2012, 04:57:07 AM
Bayer tested drugs in the concentration camps, does that count?
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Wildcat1 on March 07, 2012, 04:59:32 AM
Chrysler converted its factory to build B-26s
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: AHTbolt on March 07, 2012, 06:34:29 AM
singer sewing machine made carbines, monroe made shocks for shermans.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: B4Buster on March 07, 2012, 07:19:10 AM
Saab
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Reaper90 on March 07, 2012, 07:36:33 AM
Honda made piston rings for engines used in Japanese military vehicles
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Rash on March 07, 2012, 07:39:32 AM
Frigidaire

M2 Browning heavy machinegun

IBM

M-1 Carbine
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Sombra on March 07, 2012, 07:44:06 AM
Junkers (http://www.junkers.com) initially (1895) made boilers. Now only makes boilers.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: PFactorDave on March 07, 2012, 07:44:18 AM
There's a Borden Chemical plant not too far from where I live that makes plastic for shrink wraps now, but during WW2 it made explosives.  My grandfather was an armed security guard at the plant until he joined the Navy and became a SeaBee and went to the Pacific.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Shuffler on March 07, 2012, 09:00:49 AM
GM built fighter aircraft.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: cpxxx on March 07, 2012, 09:22:43 AM
Dornier, Maybach, Zeppelin?,
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Selino631 on March 07, 2012, 10:14:40 AM
Fiat
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: mthrockmor on March 07, 2012, 10:29:31 AM
Goodyear built F4U Corsairs, don't know full details.

The big one, Kaiser Steel and Ship building. Built hundreds of ships, to include the Liberty ships.

Boo
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Slate on March 07, 2012, 10:34:13 AM
Quote from: Shuffler on March 07, 2012, 09:00:49 AM
GM built fighter aircraft.

  GM also made some M1's (Upland Division). Allison was bought by GM in 1929 made aircraft and tank parts.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: MiloMorai on March 07, 2012, 10:44:09 AM
Maytag (washer/dryers) made castings for supercharger compressors.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: j500ss on March 07, 2012, 10:46:18 AM
If I remember correctly, ( no I did not research it to be sure)  John Deere made transmissions, final drives, and some of the front castings for tanks.  I think Shermans, and maybe 1 or 2 others.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Maverick on March 07, 2012, 10:50:53 AM
Remington Rand - Typewriters and 1911's

Singer -  Sewing machines and M1's

Packard - autos and Mustang engines
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Rob52240 on March 07, 2012, 10:51:04 AM
Hyundai...  Well the guy who went on to found Hyundai operated a garage in occupied Korea and since the only people who were operating cars and trucks in occupied Korea were Japanese Military types, he'd rip them off at every opportunity.  

After the war he expanded his company and began building military bases for the Nato forces during the Korean war.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Reaper90 on March 07, 2012, 10:52:30 AM
Cadillac built the M5 Stuart light tank

Studebaker (technically still in existance, if only on paper, though I read investors have been working on restarting the company and building new cars - but I give that less than a snowball's chance) built radial aircraft engines, for the B-17 among others.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: SmokinLoon on March 07, 2012, 10:57:38 AM
Remington-Rand, a company that made typewriters and other such office equipment geared up to produce the 1911A1 .45ACP pistol.

There are LOTS of everyday companies that contributed to the war effort.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Rob52240 on March 07, 2012, 11:10:13 AM
Ford stamped an F on nearly every component of the Jeeps they built.  Most of the nuts and bolts included so that they wouldn't have to warranty any other producer's equipment.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Xtrepid on March 07, 2012, 11:49:04 AM
Quote from: Shuffler on March 07, 2012, 09:00:49 AM
GM built fighter aircraft.

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(http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq288/Xtrepid/gm2.png)
(http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq288/Xtrepid/gm3.png)
Time Magazine Feb. 1944
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Life Magazine Nov. 1942
(http://i456.photobucket.com/albums/qq288/Xtrepid/LIFENOVEMBER1942.png)

X :salute
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: ArcticKat on March 07, 2012, 12:35:22 PM
(http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx185/XxXarcticatXxX/kingtiger-porsche.jpg)


Its a Porsche King Tiger
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Pigslilspaz on March 07, 2012, 12:39:31 PM
Thank you everyone! Keep em coming lol!


Quote from: ArcticKat on March 07, 2012, 12:35:22 PM
(http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx185/XxXarcticatXxX/kingtiger-porsche.jpg)


Its a Porsche King Tiger

Best kind of King Tiger
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: PFactorDave on March 07, 2012, 12:56:03 PM
Quote from: Pigslilspaz on March 07, 2012, 12:39:31 PM
Best kind of King Tiger

Definitely the one you want for picking up chicks!
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: saggs on March 07, 2012, 02:31:10 PM
Interesting bit of historical trivia I learned this week, is that Zeppo Marx of Marx brothers fame, was also an engineer. 

After his comedy career he started a company called Marman Products (which lives on today as Aeroquip) famous for the "Marman clamp" which was the clamp used to hold the atomic bomb "Fat Man" detonated over Nagasaki in the bomb bay of the B-29.  Legend has it that Zeppo himself designed the clamp.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: AHTbolt on March 07, 2012, 02:49:20 PM
International harvster M5 halftrack. Baldwin locomotive works made tanks
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Karnak on March 07, 2012, 04:03:45 PM
Nakajima built combat aircraft, now they build cars under their new name, Subaru.
Toyota built vehicles for the Japanese military, now they build civilian vehicles.
Kawanishi rebranded themselves as Shin Meiwa and continued to build flying boats.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: mbailey on March 07, 2012, 04:29:49 PM
Krupp Steel (now ThyssenKrupp AG)
BMW-
Kawasaki


Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: morfiend on March 07, 2012, 04:56:54 PM
  AEG,

  Bosch,

  CCM,

  Avro,

 and Philips are a few more.


   :salute
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: colmbo on March 07, 2012, 05:22:09 PM
Quote from: Shuffler on March 07, 2012, 09:00:49 AM
GM built fighter aircraft.

Grumman built a TBF assembled with PK screws (sheet metal screw) so that GM could dis-assemble it with ease to learn how to build the TBM.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Sombra on March 07, 2012, 05:33:22 PM
Quote from: ArcticKat on March 07, 2012, 12:35:22 PM
(http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx185/XxXarcticatXxX/kingtiger-porsche.jpg)


Its a Porsche King Tiger

Porsche King Tiger lost to Henschel proposal. "Porsche turret" is in fact the turret Krupp originally designed for the rejected Porsche vehicle, adapted for the Henschel. So nothing Porsche in constructed King Tigers

The only Porsche design that reached production stage is the  Ferdinand (for Ferdinand Porsche)/Elephant (http://www.achtungpanzer.com/panzerjager-tiger-ferdinand-elephant.htm). Offspring of the also rejected Porsche proposal for Tiger I.

(http://www.achtungpanzer.com/images/elep_1.jpg)
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Pigslilspaz on March 07, 2012, 05:35:15 PM
Quote from: PFactorDave on March 07, 2012, 12:56:03 PM
Definitely the one you want for picking up chicks!

See this

Quote from: Tucker from RvB
You can't pick up chicks in a tank...
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Rob52240 on March 07, 2012, 08:43:30 PM
Dupont invented Teflon for use in our atomic bombs. 

The bomb engineers felt a need to encase the core of the bombs with something totally inert and solid. 
They found out later that it's great for frying pans too.
Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: Anodizer on March 08, 2012, 12:38:43 AM
Kodak used concentration camp labor...
Hugo Boss made Nazi Uniforms....
Siemens used slave labor to build gas chambers and used them the gas the slaves that built them...
Ford profited heavily from both sides during the war...  Henry Ford hated Jews..  Got a medal from Hitler..
Standard Oil (no Exxon, BP, etc) profited heavily from both sides of the war...

Title: Re: A question for those who are great with history
Post by: The Jekyll on March 08, 2012, 05:14:50 PM

Harley Davidson produced the WLA motorcycle (45 cubic inches, whoa baby!), BMW produced that BMW R75 (well known sidecar model)