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Vertol Shareholders
Approve Boeing Pact
V ertol Aircraft Corp. sharcholdcrs
have approvcd a plan for acquisition
of V crtol by Boeing Airplane C o.
On M ar. 31 Vertol is sch eduled to
become th e V ertol Di,ision of Boeing,
continuing opcrations at its Morton.
Pa ., location uncler cxisti ng management (AW o,. 23, p. 29). Allied Research Associates, Inc., of Boston. a
wholly-owned V crtol subsicl ia ry, will report to Boeing h eadquarters after th c
acquisition. Canaclian Vertol Aircraft,
Ltd., of Arnprior, Canacla, anoth er
wh ollv-ownecl subsidian , will continuc
to report to the Vcrtoi' D iYision.
Out of 547,5 12 sha rcs of stock included in thc ,oting, 5-f 3, 121 , or
99.2% , wcrc in fa rnr of th c acquisition
a ncl 4, 391 shares, equal to 0.8 % , werc
aga inst the plan . V oting stock rcpresented 8 1. 5% of 67 3,093 sharcs outstandi ng and cntitled to rntc.
Tbc voting sha reholders authorizecl
sale of V crtol's assets and business to
Boeing in exchangc fo r the assumption
by Boeing of Vcrtol's liabilitics, and thc
issue to V crtol of Bocing's capital stock
at the rate of two shares for each th rec
sh ares of Vcrtol's common stock th en
outstanding.
Last weck Piasccki Aircrnft Corp. announccd that o,cr thc past ~-ear it had
AVIATION WEEK, February 22, 1960