Atchison Machine

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Atchison Machine was founded in 1964 by President Bob Atchison to fill the void of a quality performance machine shop in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. From it's humble beginnings behind Race Car Accessories (London's only Speed Equipment dealer in the sixties) on York Street the business continued to grow and expand and moved to the current location of 132 Clarke Road in 1967. Originally Bob built turnkey drag race cars as well as machining customers performance engines while he raced his own Top Fuel Dragster throughout Ontario and the Northern United States. Bob continued to expand the business to include stock replacement engines,components and parts. With local drag strips canceling the top fuel class and the ever increasing demands of his business Bob quit racing to concentrate totally on his business. Several additions to the original building and the purchase of adjacent buildings has seen Atchison Machine grow to over 12,000 square feet. Bob missed the track and with the encouragement of his brother and a friend Bob owned and raced stock cars driven by various drivers in the 1970's before he quit racing altogether and concentrated on his ever expanding business and raising a family with his wife Maxine. Bob used his talents to invent and manufacture tooling that is used by other automotive machine shops throughout the world and distributed by such famous companies as Sunnen Products. In the later 1990's Bob was joined in the business by his son Rob and they decided...

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