1968 1968 founder ronnie and margaret thomson headquarters macon georgia products aircraft and bicycle parts website http www.lhthomson.com a selection of thomson bicycle stems . thomson stem on a 2013 santa cruz tallboy . l.h. thomson is a manufacturer of aerospace components and bicycle parts . it has a 60 000 square feet 5 600 m2 machine shop in macon georgia . 1 2 contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 bicycle 2.2 aircraft 3 references history edit the company was originally founded by loronzo harold thomson ronnie and his wife margaret in 1968 as a small machine shop called nemco numerical engineering machine company just outside macon ga. in 1980 they were one of a number of companies to be acquired by boeing resulting in ronnie becoming the president of boeing georgia . 3 in 1981 they purchased the nemco building back from boeing and founded l.h. thomson focusing on modern computerized cnc machining instead of the more common method at the time manual machining . 3 4 in 1992 they moved into a new facility almost four times as large as the previous building and between 1994 and 1996 started producing bicycle parts as well . 3 when ronnie died in 2008 marge thomson took over as ceo with her son brian thomson as president . 5 products edit bicycle edit in 1994 carnegie mellon graduates chris mcgee and mark mcjunkin joined lh thomson to launch the bicycle division of the company . after a year of testing and development the thomson elite seatpost was introduced at the 1995 interbike show in las vegas . the response was extraordinary and within a year the elite had become the standard for durability value and performance . lh thomson holds multiple mechanical and design patents for cycling products and is viewed as an industry leader in the production of high end bicycle components . the company has traditionally made seatposts and stems but has diversified into handlebars and dropper seatposts 6 as well as adding titanium and carbon fibre to the materials they use . 5 aircraft edit around 70 % of their business is making parts for aviation companies like boeing cessna and gulfstream . 4 references edit contact us lh thomson manufacturing lh thomson a b c history lh thomson a b factory tour lh thomson s massive stem seatpost & aerospace machine shop bike rumor a b bibb county company increases sales employees despite rocky economy latest news macon.com thomson s new dropper seatpost interbike 2012 bikeradar v t e american bicycle manufacturers current american star bike friday bilenky cycle works bohemian brooklyn bicycle co. bontrager calfee design cannondale catrike centurion chumba racing co motion columbia cortina cruzbike cycle force group dahon diamondback dynacraft bsc electra ellsworth handcrafted fantasy toys lowrider bicycle & hobby felt fuji fyxation gendron inc. gt haro huffy ibis independent fabrication international surrey company iron horse italvega jamis k2 sports kent international kestrel litespeed magna marin masi melon milwaukee mongoose moots next nishiki novara pacific pope priority pure cycles quality quintana roo r e rans designs razorusa redline rhoades car ritchey design rivendell roadmaster richard sachs santa cruz santana schwinn seven shelby shinola soma fabrications specialized surly terracycle terrible one tommaso torker transition trek turner suspension univega valdora van dessel sports villy custom volagi waterford precision wilderness trail worksman yamaguchi yeti zigo defunct american american machine and foundry chicago clark kent e. c. stearns eagle fat city fleetwing gary fisher gormully & jeffery jmc klein kogswell lemond lotus merlin murray overman pocket rambler ross serotta sol stelber sterling wright components bell sports bicycle technologies international coker tire fox racing shox fyxation giro hayes brake burley design rockshox slidepad speedplay sram l.h. thomson zipp rolf prima retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title l.h. thomson & oldid 697626756 categories cycle parts manufacturerscompanies based in macon georgiacompanies established in 1981machiningaerospace companies of the united states 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 31 december 2015 at 19 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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