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AMP - Aircraft Marine Products Inc., Harrisburg, PA

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Aircraft / Aircraft Marine Products (AMP), PO Box 3608, Harrisburg, PA (2100 Paxton St., Harrisburg, PA) / est. 1941 / acquired by Tyco International 1999 name changed to TE Connectivity 2011 / patent 3157075 Nov 17 1964 George J. Filia / electrical tools crimpers / http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/amp-incorporated-history/ / https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/amp-inc / https://www.ydr.com/story/news/hist...igar-factory-into-electronics-plant/31772247/ / https://www.coursehero.com/file/p4t...t-1-The-History-of-AMPA-Timeline-of-Progress/ / (see also TE Connectivity) /

AMP / (see Aircraft and Marine Products) /

Rather interesting history on this company, described in great detail on a number of sites.

What piqued my curiosity about this company was seeing a plethora of electrical terminal crimpers with nothing more than "AMP" stamped on them, which begged the question "Who made this thing?"

I am not sure whether Aircraft Marine Products Inc. was the sole manufacturer, but the same patent number (3157075)appears on a number of similar crimpers made by various companies, among them Klein, ITT-Cannon, Packard Electrical Division (General Motors Corp.), Hollingsworth, and others.

Here are a couple examples of "AMP" product:

AMP Crimping Tool patent 698241 3153075 01.jpg AMP Crimping Tool patent 698241 3153075 02.jpg

and here are examples of a similar design, all using the same patent numbers as the AMP models above:

Hollingsworth H4A crimpers (patent 3157075)(Ebay 254924724549 01).jpgITT Cannon crimpers (patent 3157075)(Ebay 224054540390 01).jpgKlein Vaco T1710 crimpers (patent 3153075) (Amazon.com 01).jpg
Packard (GM 12085271) crimpers (patent 3157075)(Ebay 124667675964 02).jpg Packard (GM 12085271) crimpers (patent 3157075)(Ebay 124667675964 03).jpg
 
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I started with IBM in 67, they used AMP when ever possible in their cables. I still have a couple of the ring tongue crimpers. By the way, if anyone use them be sure to only use AMP terminals. I have seen them come apart when a wrong terminal was used.
 
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Ok this is the part where you can make some fun jokes, either I have an AMP or it reads AMF I am just not sure ??? :dunno::dunno::dunno:

Anyhow if it is AMP now I know more about the history of the company so a big thank you is in order...
 

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Woody there wire gauge sizes on the jaws. A WAG would be a field repair crimp tool to crimp a **** splice and/or terminal. From a manufacturing point it would never pass a pull test.
 
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Years ago in a different life I got hired to paint the displays for the AMP corporate museum. Lots of fun, cool project.
 
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A 1954 Aircraft-Marine Products brochure has been uploaded to Archive.org. It shows this custom truck, the AMP-Mobile, outfitted for product demonstrations. It doesn't show the front of the vehicle so I have no idea as to make and model.

I downloaded the pdf, reformatted it, and uploaded to the ITCL. The brochure is unusual too, one long sheet printed both sides, folded twice, with the AMP-Mobile printed on a separate smaller sheet, glued in, and folded up.

Amp_Mobile_1954 (1).jpgAmp_Mobile_1954 (2).jpg
 
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woody 73 said:
Ok this is the part where you can make some fun jokes, either I have an AMP or it reads AMF I am just not sure ??? :dunno::dunno::dunno:

Anyhow if it is AMP now I know more about the history of the company so a big thank you is in order...
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Them's bowling pliers.
 
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Interesting find, Mark.
That's a real truck - photographed long before there was "Photoshop" - but I have no clue as to year make and model.
 
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I stumbled across this thread searching for info on AMP. I worked in one of their tool rooms in Florida from 1980 to 1996. We built plastic injection molds; another small facility nearby built dies. They closed our shop in '96, part of a consolidation program. We worked to extremely tight tolerances, and if a part was screwed up, it had to be made over. No welding, shimming, or plating allowed. AMP once controlled 85% of the world connector market, but began a slow decline leading up to them being bought out by Tyco in 1999.
 
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I found this model 49111 stripper/crimper by Aircraft Marine Products last week. It is larger (9.8 inches long) than a typical stripper/cutter like this and the stripping holes are marked in AWG and Naval Shipboard standards.
It's stamped as Patent Pending. This is patent US2668464A, applied for on 1949-08-02 and granted on 1954-02-09 (see thumbnail).

AMP 4911 strip-crimp - Side a.jpg


AMP 4911 strip-crimp - Side b.jpg
 

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