Glenn L. Martin Company
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1912 - 1916
Historical Note: Glenn L. Martin Company
The Glenn L. Martin Company was an airplane manufacturing company formed in August 1912 by aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin. Martin designed and built his own aircraft and had broken many flight records before founding the company. The company established a factory in Los Angeles, California.
In 1916 the Wright Company approached Martin and proposed a merger of the two companies, forming the Wright-Martin Company.
Martin resigned from the company in 1917 and formed a new Glenn L. Martin Company based in Ohio. The Wright-Martin company would reorganize after World War I and become the Wright Aeronautical Corporation.
Places
- California (Residence)
- Los Angeles (Calif.) (Residence)
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Curtiss-Wright Corporation Records
Collection
Identifier: 2002-01-15
Abstract
The Curtiss-Wright Corporation Records contain business documents from the Curtiss-Wright company and its predecessors, including the Wright Company, Simplex Automobile Company, Glenn L. Martin Company, Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation, Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, and Wright Aeronautical Corporation. The records, which span the first half of the twentieth century, include administrative, financial and legal records documenting business dealings as well as photographic...
Dates:
circa 1900s-1965; Majority of material found within 1909-1947
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Series III. Glenn L. Martin Company, 1912-1917
Series
Scope and Contents
A single item, a minute book, encompasses Series III. Glenn L. Martin Company. The minute book includes meeting minutes for regular and special meetings of directors and stockholders, spanning late 1912 to early 1917. The minutes document the establishment of Board of Directors, discuss property research, and offer insight on government contracts. An income tax return document for 1916 is also present in the book. The resignation of Glenn L. Martin from the company and other changes in...
Dates:
1912-1917
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