A. The state of Delaware has very favorable corporate tax rates. So, Remington arms of Delaware was incorporated in the state of Delaware, with the corporate office in the state, probably Wilmington. Even today, most banks are headquartered there.
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A. The state of Delaware has very favorable corporate tax rates. So, Remington arms of Delaware was incorporated in the state of Delaware, with the corporate office in the state, probably Wilmington. Even today, most banks are headquartered there.
Been away a while but had to jump in . All I know is that the name on the receiver of my M1917 is Eddystone not Remington. The rifles were built by employees not employed directly by Remington. If it was a separate company I really do not have any proof either way , maybe in a way like Pontiac was to General Motors. I am sure taxes and laws and most of all profit had some hand in it. But what Wardog76 really failed to mention is what else was manufactured in Eddystone PA .......and that was Jennifer Anniston ! I love my "EDDYSTONE" and I do not really care who or what was the overall hierarchy of production other than it's historical perspective.Quote:
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I read an interesting old story in philly.com about an ammunition explosion on Balwin locomotive property. I forgot that Eddystone, Winchester and Remington also produced the Pattern 14 rifles for Great Britain until converted to M1917's . It is an interesting story but I cut and pasted this snippet which states what Baldwin owned and was producing during WW1
"The Eddystone Ammunition plant was on the property of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, just south of Industrial Highway near the present site of the Philadelphia Electric Co. power station alongside the river.
Baldwin owned the munitions plant, along with two other plants for Enfield rifles and armored tanks for American forces. Although little was said publicly about the operation, for security reasons, more than 10,000 people worked in the plants."
The Mystery Lives Where 139 Perished - Philly.com
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Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Wasn't part of the discussion. Since you brought it up here's some more famous people from Delaware county Pennsylvania.Quote:
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John Morton signer of the Declaration. Tina Fey. Todd Rundgen "who by the way mother was good friends with", Jim Croce. Jamie Kennedy. Danny Bonaduce. Jeff Labar from the 80's hair band Cinderella, I went to High school with his younger brother and his Pop was my school bus driver. New England Patriot Todd Rucci who was my neighbor growing up on Clover lane in Upper Darby. Though Jamaican he moved to Upper Darby young, Seattle Seahawk Floyd Weatherburn who I played high school football with. He won H.S All American in our junior year went on to Penn State and then the NFL,,,dude was huge!!!. Didn't know about the Aniston link though.
It's a small world isn't it. There's more I just can't think of them off the top of my head....
We can stray off topic occasionaly we are only human . I knew an NCO who hails from that area from my service days we were stationed in old now closed Ft Ord , CA. always wondered what has happened to him . And all of the Eddystone alumni you mentioned meet my seal of approval in the good egg category except for that Marxist liberal O*ama loving kvetch Tina Fey. Wardog76 I would love to own a metal detector where you live there is history underneath that soil. Now back on topic my Eddystone as best I can deduce was arsenal refurbished in the early 20's and probably in storage until it hit the civilian sector. It is always an honor to own a part of American History and an Eddystone marked rifle to me exemplifies the WW1 era.Quote:
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If I may stick my oar in here, please use this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauclain_compound
Samuel Vauclain may not have been a firearms designer, but he obviously had a good engineering background and would have been conversant with the requirements of industrial-scale precision manufacturing. As a steam locomotive fan I knew about Vauclain compounds decades before I ever heard of Eddystone.
Sorry, correct that - I had heard of Eddystone, but it was a lighthouse!
Not your typical suit.
Fun trivia... During the cold war there was a semi famous ship built in the 70's for a secret purpose right next door to the arsenal. By this time we weren't letting any Russians run around!! Hint>> The hull number wasn't K-129.
My grandfather, two uncles and my father where welders who worked on it. All sworn to secrecy.
Nobody? Ok, here's the answer.
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That "little voice in your/my head" has saved me on more than one occasion, but on the flip side has caused me more grief at times than I can recall. OP I'd change the parts and never look back.Quote:
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