Fairchild Aircraft Local Purchasing Policy Promotes Community Support
Washington County residents should know Fairchild Aircraft buys over half of its maintenance and operation needs from Hagerstown merchants. In 1943 local purchases exceeded a million dollars, excluding raw materials and work by fifteen subcontractors. Local spending keeps money circulating, sustains business conditions, and funds city services, with expected growth as more space comes on line.
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Washington County
Fairchild Aircraft
Hagerstown
Farrchuld
Fairchild
Hagerstown Suppliers Antietam Paper Company Beachley Reichard Furniture
A catalog style listing of Hagerstown suppliers includes Antietam Paper Co Beachley Reichard Furniture Co Berkson Moses Bester Long Co Bohman CP Inc Bohman Warne Inc Brandt Cabinet Works Cochran Typewriters Service Chesapeake Potomac Telephone Co Coffman Lumber Crider Leather Goods Cross Tom Cushna Victor Sons Danzer Metal Dune Press Emmert Hardware Everly Chas H Foltz Mfg Supply Graybulls Hagerstown Auto Parts Awning Bookbinding Printing Hagerstown Equipment Lumber Paint Glass Hays Bros Henson D Hoffman Chevrolet Howards Paint Kauffman Mfg Supply hoppers Linde Air Products Maryland Motors Maryland Pipe Metals McKee McPhail Paine Merchants Wholesale Grocery Miller Liskey Electric Miller s on the Square Montgomery Ward Myerly Advertising New York Central Iron Works Nolands Pangborn Parker Tire Potomac Edison Reynolds Co Roney Bros Schindel Rohrer Schlotterbeck Sporting Goods Sears Roebuck Standard Oil Scefley Findley Summers Bras Thomas Bennett Hunter In State Electrical Victor Products Voris Laboratories Winn Berry Zimmerman Wholesalers
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Antietam Paper Company
Beachley-Reichard Furniture Co . Inc
Berkson
Moses Bester-Long Co
Bohman, Cp, Inc
Bohman-Warne Inc
Brandt Cabinet Works
Cochran Typewriters Service
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co
Coffman Lumber Corp
Crider Leather Goods Co
Cross
Tom Cushna
Victor, & Sons
Danzer Metal Works Co
Dune Press
Emmert Hardware Company Inc
Everly
Chas H. Foltz
Mfg Supply Co
Graybull’s Inc
Sears Roebuck & Company
Standard Ol Co of Nj, Scefley & Findley Inc
Summers Bras
Thomas Bennett & Hunter Inc
Inistate Electrical Supply Co, Inc
Victor Products Corp
Voris Laboratories
Winn, Berry Bf. Zimmerman Wholesalers
Hagerstown Leather Co Turns to War Materials for Fairchild Planes
The Hagerstown Leather Company, a long-time producer of leather goods, expanded from civilian items to Army contracts. Since 1942 it has made 16 different leather pieces for Fairchild trainers and related aircraft components, including cockpit decks with leather crash pads and leather covers for anti aircraft gun housings. Workers and management are praised for their role in war production.
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Hagerstown Leather Company
Hagerstown
Hagerstown Leather
Fairchild
Comell
Hagerstowns
Service List Grows 2400 Former Workers Now In Armed Forces
Fairchild reports over 2400 former employees serving in the armed forces with about 25 percent on combat fronts worldwide and five reported killed. The FAO publication shares news with servicemen, including Christmas greetings and overseas notes. Monthly inductions average around 70, with some returning veterans rejoining, and a dedicated Selective Service Division screens deferment requests.
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Fairchild
FAO
Armed Services
Selective Service Division
Fairchild Personnel Department
Fairchild Production Tops Aircraft Industry Average
In 1943 the aircraft industry produced 85 946 airplanes. Fairchild Aircraft, Hagerstown, shows production reaching several times the small annual output of a few hundred planes, including wings for Baltimore bombers and Mariner patrol bombers. Over four years aviation production expanded about 46 times industry wide and 76 times for Fairchild.
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Fairchild
Baltimore
Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation
Fairchild Aircraft
Hagerstown
Tus
Aircraft War Production Council Produces 24,566 Planes in 1943
The Aircraft War Production Council AWPC built 24,566 aircraft in 1943, a 184 percent gain over 1942. East Coast members including Fairchild Engine and Airplane, Aviation Corporation, Bell, Curtiss-Wright, Eastern Aircraft, Glenn L. Martin and Republic Aviation share engineering, production and materials data to boost output. General Arnold expects continued high totals in the next 15 months as Fairchild and peers push innovations and information exchange.
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The
Aircraft War Production Council, East Coast, Inc
Eastern Aircraft
Aviation Corporation
Bell Aircraft Corporation
Curtiss- Wright Corporation
Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corporation
Glenn L. Martin Company
Republic Aviation Corporation
Counal
General H H Arnold
AWPC
Fairchild
J. Carlton War, Jr
Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation
Glenn L. Martin
Glenn L. Martin Co
L. D. Bell
Bell Aircraft Corp
L. C. Goad
General Motors
J. Carlton Ward, Jr
Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp
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C. R. Perkins
Fairchild Aircraft Division
O.R Perkins
Hagerstown Leather Co
Fairchild Planes
Cornell
Ranger
Grider Field
Arkansas
Companies In Aircraft War Production Council
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