Chamberlain Manufacturing Corporation history

Across the tracks from the National Gas Engine Co. was the John T. Handt Tractor Company which was formed about 1912 with C. C. Butler vice-president.

By 1915, Chamberlain no longer needed the 321 Lafayette Bldg. address, so the Sheldon Gas Engine Co. was using it with Mr.

It is unknown how long engines were produced by Chamberlain in Waterloo, but some of the Miss Simplicity engines still sat on the factory floor in 1920.

The Sheldon Gas Engine Company ceased all operations by 1928.

The banner year for wringers at Chamberlain was in 1929.

1930 edition of Official Directory of Corporations of Milwaukee, Wisconsin lists "Chamberlain Mnfg.

It was after the Second World War, in 1952 to be exact that A.J. Thrall and Dick Duchossois joined forces to form a corporation with Dick becoming the president and A.J. Thrall successfully growing the company into manufacturing new rail cars.

In 1954, the company marketed a garage door opener named Genie, the first mass-produced, radio-controlled residential garage door opener.

The new acquisition was assimilated into the group in 1984 as the consumer products division of the TDG and was named the Chamberlain Group, Inc.

It was in 1980’s that the company acquired the Chamberlain Group and became its sole owner in 1983. It was in 1989 that the company made its first mark in the market with the introduction of the industry’s first ever wireless, keyless entry system.

Overhead Door Corporation purchased Genie in 1994.

Immediately after that, in 1998, the group acquired The Clicker Corporation a manufacturer of universal remote transmitters based in Carlsbad, California and Moore-O-Matic of Wisconsin, another manufacturer of garage door openers and gate operators.