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33-612: Construction on the Stride Bank Center began in May 2011. The building was designed by Convergence Design and constructed by Key Construction as part of the Enid Renaissance project, a $ 24 million project which included the renovation of Convention Hall and the addition of 1,100 additional parking spaces in the downtown area. The former Geronimo Motor Company building was torn down for parking accommodations. It opened on June 15, 2013 with

66-812: A 340 hp (254 kW) version. Textron purchased the company in 1985. In 1994, Textron sold the Lycoming Turbine Engine Division, located in Stratford, Connecticut , to AlliedSignal , who merged it with the Garrett Engine Division of AlliedSignal as part of AlliedSignal Aerospace, later becoming part of Honeywell Aerospace in 1999. Textron retained piston engine production in Williamsport. Lycomings continue to power new light aircraft by fellow Textron division, Cessna Aircraft , and by Piper , Cirrus , Diamond , and others. Lycomings remain

99-601: A 122-inch wheelbase. One model was a roadster , the other a five-passenger tourer . Geronimo also produced cars under the marque Wing for export to France. The cars were distributed by agencies across the Midwest, in Kansas, Nebraska, West Texas, and Oklahoma. The 4A-40 was priced at $ 895, the 6A-45 at $ 1,295. By contrast, the Cole 30 and Colt Runabout were $ 1,500, the Model S $ 700, and

132-507: A bond issue for the construction of a building to memorialize the efforts of Garfield County soldiers in World War I. Sealed bids were accepted until September 1, 1919 on bonds of $ 250,000 for the construction of the convention hall. The building was constructed at a cost of $ 500,000 with an original capacity of 5,000. It was designed by the architectural firm Layton, Smith and Forsyth and constructed by Bass and Frankenfield Builders. It served as

165-648: A field near LaCross, Kansas, in 1972. It is now owned by the Enid Region of the Antique Automobile Club of America , and is still regularly used in parades and community historical events. Lycoming Engines#Engine manufacture Lycoming Engines is a major American manufacturer of aircraft engines . With a factory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania , Lycoming produces a line of horizontally opposed , air-cooled, four, six and eight-cylinder engines including

198-464: A meeting place for the Enid Chamber of Commerce. The hall served as a venue for stage productions including plays such as Hitchy-Koo and Al G. Field minstrel shows and for musicians such as John Philip Sousa , Ernestine Schumann-Heink , Bob Wills , and Fred Waring . President George Bush spoke at the venue while campaigning in 1992. The original hall was four stories tall, and had two balconies:

231-524: A sports venue in Oklahoma is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Geronimo Motor Company Geronimo was a pioneer vintage era American automobile , built at 409 South Grand in Enid, Oklahoma , between 1917 and 1920. It was what would today be called an "assembled car", relying on proprietary parts from outside suppliers. In addition, the company made tractors. The Geronimo Motor Company

264-442: A year, with a 2,000-strong workforce. To handle the capacity, a new foundry complex was built in Williamsport that year. Eventually Lycoming became Auburn's principal supplier, and in 1927 Errett Lobban Cord bought the company, placing it under his Auburn Manufacturing umbrella group. Among the engines Lycoming produced for Cord was an L-head straight-eight engine of 298.5 cu. in. displacement that produced 125 horsepower. This

297-422: Is an operating division of Avco Corporation, itself a subsidiary of Textron . Lycoming dates its founding to 1845 by " Madame Ellen Curtis Demorest ". However, the early history of the company (especially prior to 1860) is unclear; biographer Ishbel Ross notes that the marriage of Ellen Louise Curtis to William Jennings Demorest took place in 1858, somewhat later than the purported date of establishment of

330-483: The 100–360 hp (75–270 kW) range. Engines in this series also include the O-235 four-, O-580 six- and O-720 eight-cylinder engines, and the advanced turbocharged and fuel-injected 450 hp (340 kW) TIGO-541 variant of the venerable (carbureted) O-540. In the early 1980s, the general aviation market suddenly diminished and Lycoming's piston engine business was significantly impacted. Attempts were made to move some of

363-641: The Cleveland Cavaliers . In addition to hosting concerts and high school sports, the arena was home to the Oklahoma Storm , a basketball team in the USBL . The Skeltur Conference Tournament was held at the arena from 1964 to 2012. In May 2011, city officials attended a groundbreaking to begin the Enid Renaissance Project which would renovate Convention Hall. W. L. McNatt and Company, of Oklahoma City

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396-586: The vulcanization of rubber. Around 1883, Gerrit S. Scofield & Frank M. Scofield (advertising agents from New York) bought the Demorest brand and the sewing machine business (the Demorests retained the magazine business), and constructed a factory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania (in Lycoming County ). At the urging of the newly established Williamsport Board of Trade, citizens invested US$ 100, 000 in

429-518: The AVCO group, at which point the engine manufacturing company became "AVCO Lycoming". It also leased the government-owned Stratford Army Engine Plant in Stratford, Connecticut , and produced Wright radials under license. After the war, this plant was converted to produce the T53 turboshaft engine, one of its more successful designs. From this point on the piston and turbine engine lines remained separate, with

462-546: The Greater Enid Chamber of Commerce Business Expo. Stride Bank Center was previously named the Enid Event Center & Convention Hall (June 15, 2013—June 13, 2016), and Central National Bank Center (June 14, 2016—March 21, 2019). It was renamed the Stride Bank Center on March 22, 2019. In 1919, Milton C. Garber , then mayor of Enid, and his commissioner aides, G. W. Pancoast and Jason W. Butts, proposed

495-527: The H-2470, but the engine's poor performance led to the adoption of an alternative radial engine on the prototype. (The XF14C did not enter production.) Undeterred by the O-1230/H-2470's failure, Lycoming turned to an even larger design, the 36-cylinder XR-7755 , the largest aviation piston engine ever built. This design also experienced problems, and was only ready for use at the very end of World War II , when

528-560: The O-1230's entry into service, it had been surpassed by other designs and the US$ 500 ;000 investment was not recouped. Another attempt was made to rescue the design by stacking two O-1230s to make the 2 300 hp (1 700 kW) H engine H-2470 but the only design to use it, the Vultee XP-54 , never entered production. The Curtiss XF14C was originally intended to be powered by

561-579: The aviation world was turning to turbojets and turboprop engines to power future large aircraft. There was apparently some interest in using it on the Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber , but the 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major four-bank radial was used instead. Through the 1920s and -30s, Lycoming had still been supplying automotive manufacturers with engines. However, these clients each slowly went out of business or switched to Continental engines for their vehicles. By 1931,

594-522: The company was sold and restructured as the Lycoming Foundry and Machine Company , shifting its focus toward automobile engine manufacture. In 1910, the company supplied its first automobile engine to Velie , and during the early post- World-War-I era, the company was a major supplier to Auburn (which produced the Auburn , Cord , and Duesenberg lines). By 1920, Lycoming was producing 60,000 engines

627-578: The company was supplying automotive engines to only three companies: Auburn , Cord and Duesenburg , still all under the control of Cord . These companies closed their doors in 1937, after which Lycoming switched to exclusively designing and producing engines for aviation. In the meantime, the Smith Engineering Corporation, an early manufacturer of controllable pitch propellers had been purchased by Cord and moved to Williamsport. In 1939 Cord re-organized all of his aviation holdings into

660-720: The company. A few years later in New York , between c. 1860 and 1887, the Demorests published fashion magazines and operated the Demorest Fashion and Sewing-Machine Company (sometimes known as the Demorest Manufacturing Company ). They produced "Madame Demorest" and "Bartlett & Demorest" sewing machines and sold Ellen Demorest's innovative paper patterns for dressmaking. During this period, Ellen Demorest patented several fashion accessories, while her husband patented improvements to sewing machines and an apparatus for

693-549: The first of which holds 995 people and the second 667 people. The floor measures at 109 feet (33 m) long by 67 feet (20 m) wide, and can hold 600 people. The ceiling is 40 feet (12 m) high, and the stage measures at 37 feet (11 m) wide and nearly 30 feet (9.1 m) long. The Mark Price Arena was a 2,500-seat multi-purpose arena in Enid, Oklahoma located in Convention Hall , named in 1993 after basketball player Mark Price who played for Georgia Tech and

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726-522: The high-volume Oldsmobile Runabout was $ 650. Despite its price, the Geronimo proved popular enough that the company built a new 30,000 sq ft (2,800 m ) factory on the outskirts of Enid, completed in the fall of 1917. As a result, both production and capitalization expanded, and in January 1919, the company sold another $ 500,000 in stock. By 1919, unit price had climbed as high as $ 1995, into

759-481: The most popular line of engines for U.S. Experimental / Amateur-Built (E/A-B) aircraft, surpassing the 5 next-most-popular brands, combined. The aircraft piston engine prefixes are: Lycoming was one of the principal pioneers of turbine engines -- turboshaft to be precise—for medium- and heavy-lift helicopters, some of which have found other applications as well. Its 1,400 horsepower (1,000 kW) T53 hybrid free turbine / shaft turbine engine initially powered

792-469: The new manufacturing facility, which employed 250 people. The factory produced 50 to 60 sewing machines per day. With the development of the "New York Bicycle" in 1891 (designed by employee S. H. Ellis), the company diversified its product offerings. Until the early 1900s, the factory produced sewing machines , bicycles , typewriters , opera chairs and other products. By 1907, the manufacture of sewing machines had become unprofitable for Demorest, and

825-420: The only FAA -certified aerobatic and helicopter piston engines on the market. The company has built more than 325,000 piston aircraft engines and powers more than half the world's general aviation fleet, both rotary and fixed wing . Lycoming has been a principal pioneer of turbine engines for medium and large helicopters, and has also produced engines for small jetliners and business jets. Lycoming

858-618: The piston lines being built in the original Williamsport factories, and turbines in Stratford. By 1961, Lycoming produced 600 to 700 engines per month. Its most successful post-war products were a series of air-cooled flat-4 and flat-6 general aviation engines. Most famous among these are the O-320 and O-360 four-cylinder engines, and the O-540 six-cylinder engine. Many light aircraft are powered by versions of these engines, with power ratings in

891-529: The project to Deere, which brought in Lycoming to sell the developed engine into the aviation markets. It was guaranteed a startup run by Cessna , also owned by Textron. Just as production was ready to start, Cessna announced it was halting its small-aircraft business for an indefinite period, and SCORE was cancelled. The remains of the Deere licenses were later purchased by Rotary Power International, which briefly produced

924-410: The range of the $ 1750 FAL or $ 2,000 Enger 40. On 14 August 1920, the plant suffered a severe fire which did $ 250,000 in damage. Insurance only covered $ 65,000, and the company was forced to close. At its peak, between 40 and a peak of 125 workers were employed, producing and selling a total of 600 cars, though production levels may have reached 1000. Only one survives, a restored example found in

957-421: The turbine production to Williamsport, but this led to a series of quality control problems and eventually it was abandoned. Another attempt to rescue Williamsport was made in introducing the "radical" SCORE engine, a Wankel engine originally developed through a joint venture between Curtiss-Wright and John Deere . Curtiss-Wright lost interest in the design just as it was maturing and sold its interests in

990-538: Was a fairly successful design, and was used widely in light aircraft , including Cord's Travel Air . In the 1930s, Lycoming made a number of attempts to develop successful high-power aircraft engines. The 1 200 hp (895 kW) O-1230 was Lycoming's attempt to produce an engine based on the United States Army Air Corps hyper engine concept, and used a variety of features to produce nearly 1 hp/ in (46 kW/L) of engine displacement . However, by

1023-560: Was awarded a $ 7,082,000 renovation contract to update the building. The project added a 11,000 sq ft ballroom, a 3,000 sq ft ballroom and 5,500 sq ft of meeting areas. The renovated location is the home of the Stride Bank Center, previously named the Enid Event Center and Central National Bank Center. Convention Hall underwent renovations and reopened on November 18, 2012 as part of Veteran's Day festivities. 36°23′40″N 97°52′44″W  /  36.39444°N 97.87889°W  / 36.39444; -97.87889 This article about

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1056-437: Was founded in 1917 by William C. Allen and incorporated with a $ 500,000 stock sale. The company offered two models: the 4A-40 , with a 166 cu in (2.7 L) four-cylinder Lycoming of 37 hp (28 kW; 38 PS), and the 6A-45 , powered by a 230 cu in (3.8 L) Rutenberg six producing a claimed 45 hp (34 kW; 46 PS), with an optional 55 hp (41 kW; 56 PS) six and

1089-528: Was used in the Cord L-29. Lycoming also produced a double overhead cam straight 8 used in the legendary Duesenberg J series. This powerplant produced 265 horsepower, six times the power of a contemporary Model A Ford. A supercharged version, generating 325 horsepower, was installed in the Duesenberg SJ and SSJ models. In 1929, Lycoming produced its first aviation engine, the nine-cylinder R-680 radial . This

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