Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation was a short-lived aircraft manufacturing business venture between the Wright Company (after Orville Wright sold the Wright Company and divested himself from it) and Glenn L. Martin.
History
Company officials merged their respective organizations, the Wright Company and the first Glenn L. Martin Company, in September 1916.
The company continued and escalated the Wright brothers patent war with other aircraft manufacturers, until its resolution—under duress from the government, in 1917, at the start of U.S. involvement in World War I—by the cross-licensing agreement developed and managed through the Manufacturers Aircraft Association.[3] Martin resigned in 1917, dissolving the Wright-Martin joint enterprise within a year.
The company manufactured a license-built version of the Hispano-Suiza 8 under the engineering leadership of Henry M. Crane. It was used by Vought VE-7, Vought VE-8, Boeing NB-2, and Loening M-8.
By 1918, the company had a factory in Long Island City, New York.[4]