page_title: Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company
section_title: Final years
hierarchical_section_title: Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company / Final years
caption_attribution_description: English: The last visible sign of the Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company on a wall of the manufacturing building on Reed St, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.
context_page_description: The Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was a railroad-equipment manufacturer and, later, a materials-handling company that was founded in 1883 and closed in the 1990s. It made four passenger vehicles for use at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair.
context_section_description: Despite a number of strikes by the union workforce, the Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company continued building its personnel and materials carriers, reaching the company centennial in 1983. The firm continued its existence until the 1990s, when all the assets were sold to Taylor-Dunn, a large manufacturer of in-plant materials handling vehicles. The Kalamazoo factory closed so quietly it was not reported in the local newspaper. 
  The factory in Reed Street, Kalamazoo was used for storage until 2015 by a local warehousing company called LC Howard, after which it was demolished. No traces of the Kalamazoo  Manufacturing Company remain in Kalamazoo. Fortunately a number of Kalamazoo railroad motor cars and Speed Trucks around the world have been restored for personal enjoyment.
caption: The faded name on the Reed St. manufacturing building in 2009
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