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title	:	TRW : Pioneering Technology and Innovation Since 1900
author	:	Dyer, Davis.
publisher	:	Harvard Business School Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0875846068
print isbn13	:	9780875846064
ebook isbn13	:	9780585224527
language	:	English
subject	TRW, Inc.--History, Industrial equipment industry--United States--History, Automobile supplies industry--United States--History, Electronic industries--United States--History, Aerospace industries--United States--History.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	HD9680.U54T73 1998eb
ddc	:	338.7/621/0973
subject	:	TRW, Inc.--History, Industrial equipment industry--United States--History, Automobile supplies industry--United States--History, Electronic industries--United States--History, Aerospace industries--United States--History.

Page iii TRW Pioneering Technology and Innovation since 1900 Davis Dyer

Page iv Disclaimer: Some images in the original hardcopy book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook. Copyright 1998 TRW Inc. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dyer, Davis. TRW : pioneering technology and innovation since 1900 / Davis Dyer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87584-606-8 (alk. paper) 1. TRW, Inc.History. 2. Industrial equipment industryUnited StatesHistory. 3. Automobile supplies industryUnited States History. 4. Electronic industriesUnited StatesHistory. 5. Aerospace industriesUnited StatesHistory. 1. Title. HD9680.U54T73 1998 97-30659 338.7'621 '0973--DC21 CIP The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.49-1984.

Page v To the memory of Frederick Coolidge Crawford, 1891-1994

Page vii CONTENTS Preface ix Chapter 1 House of Technology 1 Part One Supplier, 1900-1938 11 Chapter 2 Cap Screws, Poppet Valves, and a Cast of Characters, 1900-1916 17 Chapter 3 Peaks and Valleys, 1916-1933 35 Chapter 4 Fred Crawford's Company, 1933-1938 65 Part Two Supplier And Contractor, 1939-1965 91 Chapter 5 Transformation, 1939-1945 99 Chapter 6 Taking the Next Step, 1945-1953 135 Chapter 7 Rocket Science, 1953-1957 167 Chapter 8 The Making of a Merger, 1953-1958 195 Chapter 9 From Two Companies to One, 1958-1965 225

Page viii Part Three Diversified Corporation, 1965-1996 251 Chapter 10 A New Kind of Corporation, 1965-1969 259 Chapter 11 Testing Time, 1970-1974 295 Chapter 12 New Directions, 1975-1979 321 Chapter 13 From Policy to Strategy, 1980-1985 341 Chapter 14 Refocus and Renewal, 1986-1996 359 Chapter 15 Epilogue: The Next Era 379 Appendix TRW Inc.Principal Acquisitions and Mergers, Joint Ventures, and Divestitures, 1959-1996 387 Note on Sources 401 Notes 407 Index 479 About the Author 503

Page ix PREFACE TRW Inc. commissioned this book. The company had long sought to capture its story and had even launched history projects in the 1960s and 1980s. In the earlier effort, William Crowell, a member of TRW's Public Relations Department, gathered many files and records based primarily on the voluminous papers of Frederick C. Crawford, who led the company (then Thompson Products) between 1929 and 1958. Crowell apparently made little headway in writing, however, and the company eventually donated the papers to the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, where they are now housed.1 The history project of the 1980s, also carried out by TRW's Public Relations Department, was more modest in scope. It consisted of extended oral history interviews with leaders of the company, starting with Crawford and continuing with J. David Wright (chairman and CEO, 1958-1969), Horace Shepard (president, 1962-1969; chairman and CEO, 1969-1977), Dean E. Wooldridge (president, 1958-1962), Simon Ramo (executive vice president, 1958-1961; vice chairman, 1961-1978), and Ruben F. Mettler (president, 1969-1977; chairman and CEO, 1977-1988). The intention was to create a history of the company based on the edited recollections of these leaders. That project slowly metamorphosed into the present one, when TRW's top management agreed on the need to expand the oral history program to a much wider range of past and present employees and to set the company's story in a broader context. Accordingly, the company engaged The Winthrop Group, Inc. to produce this work.2

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