FMC Corporation is an American manufacturer that began in 1883 as the Bean Spray Pump Company, making insecticide sprayers for California orchards, and was renamed FMC from its Food Machinery Corporation days. Its ordnance work started in 1941 with a contract to design and build amphibious tracked landing vehicles for the United States Department of War, and the company later built the M113 armored personnel carrier, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle and the XR311 at its Santa Clara facility. It also built fire engines and, for a few years from 1972, motorcoaches. Its defense business was later spun into United Defense. Today the company is a chemical maker headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and this entry covers its record as a builder of vehicles.
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FMC Corporation is an American chemical manufacturing company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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FMC Corporation is an American chemical manufacturing company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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FMC later built the M113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC), the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and the XR311
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FMC later built the M113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC), the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and the XR311 at its former facility in Santa Clara, California.
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developed and produced by the FMC Corporation
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the FMC Corporation produced two prototype vehicles designated as XM765
LVTP-5 (Wikipedia)
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built by FMC (Food Machinery Corporation) along with a few other companies
M8 armored gun system (Wikipedia)
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began as a private venture of FMC Corporation
Assault Amphibious Vehicle (Wikipedia)
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The request was met by proposals from Chrysler and FMC, with the latter being awarded the contract in February 1966.
M59 armored personnel carrier (Wikipedia)
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FMC was awarded the production contract.
Lynx reconnaissance vehicle (Wikipedia)
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was developed in 1963 as a private venture by FMC Corp., the manufacturer of the M113
M548 (Wikipedia)
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was built by FMC Corp. at its San Jose, California, and Charleston, West Virginia facilities
Landing Vehicle, Tracked (Wikipedia)
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The contract to build the first 200 LVTs was awarded to the Food Machinery Corporation (FMC)
M75 armored personnel carrier (Wikipedia)
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An order for 1,000 was placed with IHC and another, for 730, with the Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation
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