The Great Clinton Engine Company and the people that made them...

In 1945, self-made Art Depue of Maquoketa, IA, President of Central Steel Tube Co. in Comanche, Iowa (abutting Clinton) began making Saw More metal cutting machines and other industrial products. He set welding supervisor, Adolph Wildfang, to work. He built a new factory complex for his Art's Maquoketa Company near the location of the old Jacob Becker Brick Co. at the corner of South Clark and East Maple Streets in eastern Maquoketa. In 1950, Depue consolidated his companies at Comanche making the Maquoketa plant available. Meanwhile in Clinton, MI dynamic machinist, entrepreneur, and self-made Don Thomas turned from making tank parts for WW II to small gasoline engines. By the end of 1946, his payroll had exploded to over  1000 employees and by 1949 he was buried in orders and needed a new home. In 1950, Mr. Thomas moved his Clinton Machine company from Clinton, MI to Maquoketa while Art Depue moved his Maquoketa Company to the Clinton, IA area in Comanche, retaining its original name. Clinton Machine Company later became Clinton Engines Corporation with plants in Maquoketa and, for a time, Clinton, Michigan.

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[piespokladowy]

Very interesting!

[Hallaran]

@piespokladowy Thanks for stopping by! 

[jasongiddensviper478]

Wow that is so neat I love your videos please keep them comeing.

[Hallaran]

@jasongiddensviper478 Thanks for stopping by!

[mbyr31]

facinating engines!

[Hallaran]

@mbyr31 Thanks for stopping by!

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@phill903 Thanks for stopping by!

[phill903]

Interesting video, in the day Clinton was a well known small engine company...

[Hallaran]

@rudedogii You know it is simple but I have "rope starters" that are 80 years old and have not broken once yet so until the complex starters can do this I will not throw out my rope... Thanks for stopping by

[Hallaran]

@joluqa Thanks fro your comment. The old engine hobby is very enjoyable for me. Thanks