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11/11/2014 12:13:10 PM EDT
This is a compiled list of the staff workers at ArmaLite,based on lose information.

George Sullivan - president

Charles Dorchester - plant manager

Eugene M. Stoner - chief engineer

Tom Tellefson - plastics engineer consultant

L. James Sullivan - draftsman/designer

Robert Fremont - chief assistant

Robert Enewold - draftsman/designer

Doc Wilson - draftsman/designer

John Peck - draftsman/designer

Warren Runnals - gunsmith

In this 1957 Guns Magazine Issue,one can see a image of Warren Runnals that worked as a gunsmith at ArmaLite,also an unidentified someone operating a  swaging machine.
11/11/2014 3:26:40 PM EDT
[#1]
A name associated with ArmaLite in Costa Mesa CA that I didn't see on the list was the production manager John McGerty who towards the end was in charge of TimberlineHawk which provided parts and service for the AR18/180 rifles following the end of production of the Sterling AR180 in 1983. I believe John McGerty ran TimberlineHawk till it closed in the late 1980s and then he retired.
11/11/2014 4:13:29 PM EDT
[#2]
The refered list is of the original staff,working at 6567 Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood,California,known as the "George's backyard garage"

The post AR-10 ArmaLite at 118 East 16th Street in Costa Mesa, California,would need its own list as some stayed but some left to work somewhere else,people like John McGerty and Art Miller (have no idea when  Miller started working for ArmaLite).
11/11/2014 4:23:18 PM EDT
[#3]
Armeiro I kind of figured that John McGerty and a few others like Art Miller weren't part of the Hollywood staff in the 1950s and joined ArmaLite later on when it moved to the Costa Mesa facility.
11/11/2014 7:32:36 PM EDT
[#4]
Hi,sorry,i should have specified this as the staff list of the 6567 Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood,this wasn't to undermine the importance of the 118 East 16th Street in Costa Mesa staff and/or work,some of this info is still new to me,i'm still organising info on this.

Thank you.
11/11/2014 7:44:32 PM EDT
[#5]
There was also Colonel Burton T. Miller,ArmaLite Vice-President.
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