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Litton Industries
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Named after inventor Charles Litton Sr., Litton Industries was a large defense contractor in the United States, bought by the Northrop Grumman Corporation in 2001.
Litton started in 1953 as an electronics company building navigation, communications and electronic warfare equipment. They diversified and became a much bigger business, with major shipyards, etc, and even manufacturing microwave ovens.
In the early 1990s, Litton Industries split into separate military and commercial companies. The $2 billion commercial business, which included Litton's oilfield services, business and automated assembly line operations, was named Western Atlas Inc.
An old logo was a stylized 1980s-style "Li", followed by the division's name in more traditional block text. For much of the 1990s, "LiSWEDA" was a common sight on cash registers, and "LiCOLE" can still be found on many filing cabinets.
- Litton Guidance and Control Systems
- Litton Aero Products
- Litton Data Systems
- Litton Space Systems
- Litton Integrated Systems
- Litton Ship Systems
- Avondale Shipyards
- Ingalls Shipyards
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Litton Marine Systems
Litton Marine Systems logo
- Sperry Marine
- C.Plath
- Decca Radar (formerly a division of Racal)
- Decca Navigator, a historical VLF navigation system
- Litton Systems Canada
- Litton Italia
- LITEF
- TELDIX
- Litton Kester
Consumer products:
- Litton Cole (filing cabinets and office furniture)
- Litton Moffat (major appliances)
- Litton Sweda (cash registers)
- Robert Sobel The Money Manias: The Eras of Great Speculation in America, 1770-1970 (1973) reprinted (2000).
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