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- ↑ "Sundstrand Selling Trans Com Systems To Sony". Associated Press . 1991-07-10. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
- ↑ "Rockwell Collins Acquires Sony Trans Com". 2000-06-01. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
- History of Sundstrand Machine Tool Co. 1910-1966, by Fred R. Swanson, 1987. (private website).
- Hamilton Sundstrand History
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