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National Electrical Machine Shops, Inc.

1937 - 1951

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This company name was chosen in 1937 when the National Electric Supply Company incorporated. This company was originally founded in 1899 and manufactured radio parts.

Around 1951, the NEMS-Clarke firm was incorporated, when National Electrical Machine Shops (or NEMS) and Clarke Instruments merged. The name change officially took place in 1955.
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  • Silver Spring
For more information, see "Nems-Clarke and Clarke Instruments," Watkins-Johnson (accessed via Internet Archive Wayback Machine) http://web.archive.org/web/20121129230908/http://watkins-johnson.terryo.org/History/Nems-Clarke.htm (accessed 04/14/2015)

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