As two-wheeled bicycles increased in popularity a new plant was built in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1951. As demand for bicycles continued to expand, the company found the need for a new manufacturing facility to keep up with demand. Taking advantage of the increase in its target markets in the aftermath of the baby boom, AMF was able to diversify its product line, adding exercise equipment under the brand name Vitamaster in 1950. The new plant was heavily automated and featured more than a mile of part conveyor belts in six separate systems, including an electrostatic spray painting operation. In 1953, after a labor strike, AMF moved bicycle manufacturing from the UAW-organized plant in Cleveland, Ohio to a new facility in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1950, after purchasing the Roadmaster line of children's and youth bicycles from the Cleveland Welding Company, AMF entered the bicycle manufacturing business with its newly formed AMF Wheeled Goods Division. As demand for bicycles continued to expand, the company found the need for a new manufacturing facility to keep up with demand.Roadmaster Bicycles were first introduced by the Cleveland Welding Company in 1936. Taking advantage of the increase in its target markets in the aftermath of the baby boom, AMF was able to diversify its product line, adding exercise equipment under the brand name Vitamaster in 1. The new Little Rock plant was purpose built for bicycle and wheel goods production and was heavily automated and featured more than a mile of part conveyor belts in six separate systems, including an electrostatic induction painting operation.
Cleveland factory and operation on the production of larger industrial products such as jet engine components. THE JUNIOR VERSION OF THIS GIRLS ROADMASTERIn an effort to avoid the cost of doing business with the labor unions in Cleveland, AMF moved all of their wheel goods production to Little Rock Arkansas in 1. 3 AMF added the remains of the Shelby Cycle Company to their holding through a hostile takeover after that firm had already been sold to one of its largest customers, the Gambles Department store chain. The Junior Toy Company, of Hammond, Indiana, another AMF acquisition, became connected with Cleveland Welding at this time when both companies were forcibly joined by AMF.
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