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[[Stamp Left Margin]] FROM THE FLYING PIONEERS BIOGRAPHIES OF HAROLD E. MOREHOUSE [[Stamp]]
brakes for automobiles.  While he had become a good pilot his love of aviation was never as deep as Allan's, so in 1919 he withdrew from the aircraft business, and at that time the brothers decided to change the spelling of their name from Lougheed to Lockheed.  Malcolm then formed the Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Company and moved to Detroit, where he perfected and developed his ideas and then succeeded in getting Walter Chrysler to introduce them on his 1924 automobiles.  The business grew, numerous other contracts were secured, then Malcolm sold his business to Bendix in 1932 where his ideas grew into a permanent brakes business.  
Meanwhile at Santa Barbara the Lockheed aircraft project went out of business in 1921.  Following this Allan went to the real estate business and became the West Coast Representative for Malcolm's auto brake business.  However, the aviation bug would not leave him, so in 1926 he interested F.S. Keeler, a title company executive, to finance him in starting another Lockheed Aircraft Company in Los Angeles.  Stadlman and Northrup returned and operations were started in a shed in Hollywood.  Their first plane was the historical VEGA, which went over big at once.  Many were sold and the company moved to Burbank.  Other models followed, the AIR EXPRESS, SIRIUS, ALTAIR and ORION and these planes became world renowned.  In 1928 sales were over one million dollars.
In 1929 Detroit financial interests formed the Detroit Aircraft Corporation and bought Lockheed and several other firms.  Allan was not in accord and sold his stock and left the organization. 
In 1930 the brothers joined again to form the Lockheed Bros. Aircraft Company at Los Angeles and brought out a very unusual twin-engine feeder line airplane.  Designed by Allan, it was a 4-seat enclosed cabin, full cantilever, high wing monoplane powered by two 120 H.P. 4-cylinder Menasco air-cooled engines places horizontally with cylinder head to cylinder head, and the crankshafts spaced just far enough apart to give propeller tip clearance.  Known as the OLYMPIC-DUO-4, it was successfully flown for some time in Alhambra, California airport.  This venture was carried on until 1934.
In 1937 Allan formed and became President of Alcor Aircraft Corporation at Oakland, California, which was terminated in 1940.  In 1941 he became Vice-Presi-
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