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shares sold under new ticker symbol svc . in 2006 the vehicle division was sold to armor holdings ; the other divisions were acquired by hushang ansary . 1 anthony james davis was named ceo in november 2015 . this appointment in addition to his appointment to the board is effective february 2016 . 2 product offering edit a rail king rail car mover the company manufactures oilfield equipment that includes truck trailer and skid mounted fracturing blenders and pumpers and units for chemical additive cementing coiled tubing nitrogen pumping controls and power generation equipment ; land based drilling workover and well servicing rigs ; and rail king railcar movers . 3 stewart & stevenson is a distributor of diesel and natural gas engines transmissions and materials handling equipment . stewart & stevenson partners with original equipment manufacturers such as ; mtu detroit diesel electro motive diesel deutz allison transmission and hyster . the company also provides aftermarket parts and service and offer rental equipment to a broad range of customers . headquartered in houston texas since 1902 stewart & stevenson provides equipment and service to the global market from a network of sales and service centers in domestic and international locations . 1 the markets served by the company include oil & gas power generation material handling on highway transportation rail marine mining construction industrial agriculture and military government . see also edit list of oilfield service companies references edit stewart & stevenson services sold diesel progress february 2006 . retrieved 2016 10 04 . stewart & stevenson names ceo anthony j. davis houston business journal . houston business journal . retrieved 2015 11 10 . stewart & stevenson llc private company information businessweek . businessweek.com . retrieved 2015 11 10 . external links edit stewart & stevenson stewart & stevenson canada rail king manufactured by stewart & stevenson stewart & stevenson material handling atlantic power systems a division of stewart & stevenson atlantic detroit diesel allison a division of stewart & stevenson florida detroit diesel allison a division of stewart & stevenson palm beach power a division of stewart & stevenson facebook twitter linkedin google retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title stewart % 26 stevenson & oldid 743466363 categories manufacturing companies based in houstonhidden categories articles with a promotional tone from october 2013all articles with a promotional tonearticles lacking sources from november 2012all articles lacking sourcesarticles needing cleanup from december 2013all articles needing cleanupcleanup tagged articles with a reason field from december 2013wikipedia pages needing cleanup from december 2013pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 19 58 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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