Talk:American Machine and Foundry

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How does Wikipedia change the title of a topic? The name of this company is AMERICAN MACHINE AND FOUNDRY NOT  AMERICAN MACHINERY AND FOUNDRY!!!

Most popular competitive sport?
It is a notorious advertising trick to bury promotional claims in clauses subordinate to factual statements. Wikipedia authors need to be more careful. Perhaps guidelines are necissary?

Nobody questions that AMF was successful in promiting bowling, but the claim that bowling is the most popular competitive sport in America should have been spotted as pure advertising.

71.175.142.228 (talk) 13:12, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Harley Davidson ?
Why is there no mention of the absolute disaster relationship with Harley Davidson ?

--220.244.42.146 (talk) 13:25, 6 February 2011 (UTC)


 * You mean, the way that AMF saved Harley from bankruptcy ? It's true, HD didn't want to change its ways but the alternative was going broke. They were within about two weeks of that when AMF took them over. AMF dumped millions of dollars into new, efficient production equipment and methods.


 * Agreed, many people at HD didn't appreciate that they had to change their ways or die but the facts are, without AMF there would be no Harley today.


 * Funny that the two motorcycle photos in this article are -


 * 1) Mislabeled. They are post-1976 at least. Before that date the Aermacchis had drum brakes.


 * 2) Mostly unknown to HD fans, since they are Italian (Aermacchi) and two-strokes and not v-twins and they only made 25 each of the 250 and 350 models. They aren't exactly what people think of when you say "Harley-Davidson."


 * Plus they don't have tassels :P 210.22.142.82 (talk) 11:11, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I can't speak to the rest of this, but the display plaque in the photo identifies the 350 as being from 1975. - Sum mer PhD v2.0 01:46, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Automated fast food.
AMF built the AMFare ORBIS system to automatically prepare a wide range of fast food items circa 1960. The car in the opening shot is a 1960 Buick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmXLqImT1wE Bizzybody (talk) 02:10, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Defense Sector
Perhaps the article could be improved, in its introductory paragraph(s). The parts about "the military-industrial complex" and a former US Secretary of State, seem to be way too far removed, or too detailed, for an introduction. The linked article on "the military-industrial complex" does not even mention AMF - "a major part"(?); I recommend elimination of the sentence and weakest link.

Another area of improvement might be separation of the discussions on A) Sporting goods, versus B) Defense/government contracts. Maybe a word or something about the last nuclear reactor built and when; what was its defense-contract subsidiary or division, and what happened to that product line (and when/why). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.183.224.2 (talk) 20:27, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

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