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Litton started in 1953 as an Electronics company building Navigation , Communication s and Electronic Warfare equipment. They diversified and became a much bigger business, with major Shipyards , etc, and even manufacturing Microwave Oven s.

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.


DIVISIONS

  • Litton Guidance and Control Systems

  • Litton Aero Products

  • Litton Data Systems

  • Litton Space Systems

  • Litton Integrated Systems

  • Litton Ship Systems

  • ---Avondale Shipyards

  • ---Ingalls Shipyards

  • Litton Marine Systems

  • ---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

  • Litton Advanced Systems (formerly Litton Amecom)

  • Litton Western (Formerly Western Electric , audio providers for the film industry. Credits notable, for example, on Yellow Submarine .)


Consumer products:
  • Litton Cole (filing cabinets and office furniture)

  • Litton Moffat (major appliances)

  • Litton Sweda (cash registers)



REFERENCES

  • Robert Sobel ''The Money Manias: The Eras of Great Speculation in America, 1770-1970'' (1973) reprinted (2000).



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