Garrett Systems
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Garrett Engine Boosting Systems is now a subsidiary of Honeywell Corporation based in Torrance, California, USA. Formerly a turboprop engine manufacturer, Garrett manufactures turbocharger components for the automobile industry.
Garrett had manufacturing facilities and design offices in America and Canada.
Cliff Garrett founded a company in 1936 which came to be known as Garrett AiResearch or simply AiResearch. Garrett AiResearch designed and produced a wide range of military and industrial products for aerospace and general industry. It focused on fluid controls and hydraulics, avionics, foil bearings, turbochargers, aircraft engines, environmental control systems for aircraft and spacecraft, and other products. In 1968, after a merger with Signal Oil, Garrett became part of Signal Companies. In the mid-1980s, Signal merged with Allied Chemical & Dye, and became AlliedSignal, becoming an automotive, aerospace and engineering company. The Garrett Aviation division was sold to General Electric in 1997 and is now part of Landmark Aviation. AlliedSignal merged with Honeywell in 1999, where the turbocharger business resides today.
[edit] External links
- Honeywell Turbo Technologies
- Garrett Aviation, now Landmark Aviation after a 2004 merger
- Garrett Turbochargers
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