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