Yep - an old Eclispe Series 11. Eclipse was a division of Bendix - states it was made in Bendix, New Jersey (a part time name for Teterboro ).
As usual John has interesting insight! And there was the Eclipse plant in Elmira Heights that made fuel pumps and I don't know what else. That is closer than Sidney to me, only 18 miles or so. So I looked it up and cut and pasted the below - see below
During World War II, the Eclipse plant in Elmira Heights was part of the United States’ “arsenal for democracy.” Eclipse started making bicycles and coaster brakes at the plant in 1895. In 1938, the company became a division of the Bendix Aviation Corp. and began the switch from producing bicycle parts and engine starters to ordnance for the war effort. Over the course of the war, Eclipse Machine Division produced anti-aircraft shells, automatic time fuzes for the anti-aircraft shells, and 20mm aircraft cannons. It also continued to make Bendix starter drives for military vehicles, as well as, aircraft magnetos and fuel injection pumps for the B-29 Super-Fortress.
The wartime production boom created thousands of jobs in the area. In January 1940, the Eclipse Machine Division employed 715 people. Just three years later, in January 1943, it hit its peak payroll of 8,594 workers. Most areas of the country were suffering from a labor shortage with so many people serving in the military. At Eclipse, 1,249 men and 152 women had gone off to fight. 36 of them died in service. Because of the labor shortage, many of the plant’s new employees were women. In fact, there were more women working as hourly-rated employees at the plant at one time than there were men.
The total war contracts for the Eclipse Machine Division during World War II amounted to $176,800,000, or over $2 billion today. The Elmira Heights plant produced millions of 1.1 projectiles, 23,100,000 automatic time fuses for anti-aircraft shells, 22,500 20mm aircraft cannon, 10,775,000 anti-aircraft shells, 52,000 magnetos for aircraft, and over 22,000 fuel injection pumps.
When I was in high school and college (62-70) the plant made the Bendix electric fuel pumps that got real popular. Still a little manufacturing left there but a lot of the old plant has been torn down. Sign out front now reads Motor Components Facet Purolator - I think they have been sold and reorganized more times than I change my socks. Still making electric fuel pumps.
I should see if they made the fuel pump that failed and caused my Dad to have a dead stick landing in a gully while doing touch and goes at what is now Duchess County Airport - then a satellite strip for Stewart Air Base in 1944 while in flight training. He and the IP totaled the AT-6. Known failure mode - I have a copy of the accident report that was exactly as he always told the story. Except he never told me he did not have part of his harness hooked and got written up for it. For totaling he also was awarded - in formation - the Royal Japanese Piss Pot - a beat up pot on a string. He got to wear it until someone else had an accident and then got to pass it along.
Dale