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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 Malcom[[circled]] sold his business to Bendix in 1932 [[strikethrough]]where his ideas grew into [[/strikethrough]] establishing a permanent brake business.

Meanwhile at Santa Barbara the Lockheed aircraft project went out of business in 1921. Following this Allan went into the real estate business and also became the West Coast representative for Malcolm's auto brake business. However, the aviation bug would not leave him, so in 1926 he [[strikethrough]] interested [[/strikethrough]] convinced F. S. Keeler, a tile 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 [[strikethrough]] went over Big at once. [[/strikethrough]] soon became famous. Many were sold and the company moved to Burbank. Other models followed, the [[strikethrough]] AIR EXPRESS, SIRRUS, ALTAIR, and ORION and these planes [[/strikethrough]] "Air Express," "Sirius," "Altair," and "Orion," all of which 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 [[strikethrough]] was not in accord and [[/strikethrough]] sold his stock and left the organization.

In 1930 the brothers joined again to form the Lockheed[[strikethrough]] Bros. [[/strikethrough]] Brothers 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 [[strikethrough]] H.P. [[/strikethrough]] hp. 4-cylinder Menasco air-cooled engines placed horizontally with cylinder head to cylinder head, and the crackshafts spaced just far enough apart to give propeller tip clearance. Known as the "Olympic-Duo-4," it was successfully flown for some time at the 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-[[dent]]

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