Aermacchi, H-D or AMF?

The story goes like this. In 1900, American Rufus L. Patterson, inventor of the first automated cigarette-manufacturing machine, set up his company American Machine and Foundry, or AMF for short.

AMF became a huge multi-faceted manufacturing corporation that specialised in buying up brands and manufacturers, and in the 1950s, it made vast amounts of money manufacturing and running automated bowling