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 Posted: Mon Jun 19th, 2017 08:16 pm
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Doug Tenney

 

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Yeah, Robert P. McCulloch was a busy guy... REALLY busy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P._McCulloch

Some highlights:
  1. His middle name is Paxton... hence the name of the superchargers.  That was his first company.
  2. He married the daughter of Stephen Foster Briggs (of Briggs and Stratton fame).
  3. His 2nd company was initially named McCulloch Aviation.  They made engines for military target drones (for training naval gunners, I presume).
  4. He also founded 3 other companies.
  5. He's the eccentric millionaire who bought the London Bridge and moved it stone by stone to Lake Havasu City in the Arizona desert.  In fact, he started that city from scratch.
  6. He also founded 3 other cities.
  7. He died in 1977 at age 65.  That USED TO seem old...
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