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A Brief History
Operated by the Chrysler Corporation in Evansville, IN from 1942 to 1943
A Brief History
ECS = Evansville Chrysler, Sunbeam Ordnance Plant, Evansville, IN
Chrysler’s Evansville, Indiana, factory literally produced “bullets by the billions,” including some 485 million cartridges for .30-caliber carbines and nearly 2.8 billion cartridges for .45-caliber carbines. Just as Chrysler prepared for production at its Evansville plant in July
1942, the Ordnance Department ordered the automaker to substitute steel for brass for the cartridge cases. Although this last minute change required Chrysler to retool much of the plant, full-scale production began in October.
.pfd from Walter P. Chrysler Museum
A Brief History
Eldorado Cartridge Corporation
P.O. Box 62508
Boulder City, NV 89006-2508
(800) 456-9182 (Voice), (702) 294-0121 (Fax)
Sales Department
sales@pmcammo.com
For questions about the location of your nearest PMC dealer, becoming a PMC dealer or distributor, or Law Enforcement or Government Agency sales.
Marketing Department
marketing@pmcammo.com
For questions about PMC advertising or public relations, or general information about PMC products.
Customer Service
customerservice@pmcammo.com
Ballistics
ballistics@pmcammo.com
For questions about the ballistic properties of PMC Ammunition.
From Website:
The original parent company, a U.S. corporation registered in Delaware, was founded in the late 1970's in New York as Patton Morgan Corporation. It began operations by importing military style small arms ammunition and .22 rimfire ammunition manufactured in South Korea. The ammunition was sold then, as it still is, under the registered brand name "PMC Ammunition", and the original slogan, "Precision Made Cartridges" has never changed.
Several years later, the company moved to Los Angeles, California, and its name was changed to Pan Metal Corporation. In addition to its ammunition business, the company also dealt in other facets of the metals business. Early in the 1980's, the increasingly successful ammunition line was expanded to include hunting (soft point) cartridges in the rifle calibers, and hollow points in the handgun ammunition.
In 1988, factory facilities were purchased near Boulder City, Nevada, for the production of ammunition to supplement the Korean imports, and for the purpose of producing two new lines of high performance cartridges. These were the Starfire handgun ammunition for law enforcement and home and personal defense, and X-Bullet rifle ammunition for big game hunting, which were introduced to the market in late 1991. In 1996, shotgun shells were added to the line.
The factory is operated under the name Eldorado Cartridge Corporation, and is a subsidiary of Pan Metal Corporation.
Today, the company's continuously expanding small arms ammunition product selection includes a full line of centerfire rifle and pistol ammunition, rimfire ammunition, shotgun shells, and reloading components. Recently, a new company known as B.C. Outdoors was incorporated and became a part of the "Eldorado Cartridge Corporation Group of Companies." B.C. Outdoors imports the Verona line of quality superposed shotguns from Italy. The company's stated purpose, like that of Eldorado Cartridge Corporation, is "to provide high quality outdoor products to its customers at a reasonable price."
During its more than two decades of ammunition production and sales, PMC Ammunition has become very well known in the United States and other countries of the world as a source of high quality small arms cartridges. The firm is now considered the fourth largest ammunition company in the United States.
A Brief History
Brand name Olympic Ammunition
Olympic Industries S.A.
Axioupoli-Kilkis-61400
Greece
A Brief History
Based in Mesa, Arizona, Eagle Eye Precision ammunition provides ammunition and brass in a variety of rifle calibers.
A Brief History
Extreme Shock Munitions USA
Route 2
Clintwood, Virginia 24228
A Brief History
A Virginia-based ammunition company that primarily produces special frangible bullets as well as various caliber cartridges.
http://www.extremeshockusa.com/