Home›Companies and Brands›Dissolved›By Decade›1940sBrowse By1940sThis dimension marks the year a company was actually dissolved, for those no longer operating. Wikipedia notes that "when a company closes, it may undergo liquidation to settle its affairs and terminate its legal obligations." Browsing this way collects every company dissolved in the same year.1940sConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)1940sFilter Results75 entriesIndustryAllAerospace Industry (5)Alcoholic Beverage Industry (2)Automotive Industry (4)Beer Industry (2)Conglomerate Industry (1)Dairy Industry (1)Defense Industry (1)Film Industry (2)Financial Services Industry (1)Glass Industry (1)News Media Industry (4)Railroad Industry (38)Shipbuilding Industry (5)Weapons Industry (2)Company TypeAllAbandoned railway (1)Brewery (1)Car Company (1)Cooperative (2)Film distributor (1)Film production company (1)Financial conglomerate (1)German aircraft manufacturer of the 1930s and 1940s (1)German vehicle manufacturer in the early 20th century (1)German weapon manufacturer located in Suhl, Germany (1)German weapons manufacturing company (1)Japanese naval shipyard (1)Naamloze vennootschap (1)News agency (3)Private (1)Public KK (1)Railway company (15)Railway line (1)Train operating company (1)Zaibatsu (1)Zaibatsu conglomerate (1)FoundedAll1819 (1)1832 (1)1833 (1)1837 (1)1840 (1)1844 (1)1845 (1)1846 (2)1847 (1)1851 (1)1853 (1)1856 (1)1857 (2)1858 (1)1861 (1)1862 (1)1863 (1)1871 (3)1872 (1)1876 (2)1880 (1)1882 (4)1883 (1)1884 (1)1885 (1)1888 (1)1890 (1)1896 (1)1897 (1)1899 (1)1900 (1)1903 (5)1904 (2)1906 (1)1911 (1)1914 (1)1918 (1)1920 (3)1921 (1)1922 (1)1923 (4)1926 (2)1928 (1)1929 (2)1930 (1)1931 (2)1933 (1)1935 (3)1937 (1)1938 (1)1943 (1)Sector (GICS)AllAerospace and Defense (11)Africa and Middle East Railroads (2)Asia-Pacific Railroads (7)Australian Brewers (1)Austrian Railroads (1)Automobiles and Components (2)Automobiles and Components Companies in Europe (2)Brewers (4)Commercial Printing and Typography (1)Construction Materials (1)Containers and Packaging (1)East North Central Railroads (3)East South Central Railroads (1)English Railroads (4)European Publishing and News Agencies: Germany, Austria and Switzerland (1)European Publishing and News Agencies: Rest of Europe (1)European Railroads (8)German Railroads (2)Greater London Railroads (3)Industrial Conglomerates (2)Irish Railroads (3)Machinery (4)Middle Atlantic Brewers (1)Middle Atlantic Railroads (3)Movies and Entertainment (2)Movies and Entertainment Companies in Europe (1)Movies and Entertainment Companies in the United States (1)Multi-Sector Financial Holdings (1)New England Railroads (1)Other European Railroads (3)Packaged Foods and Meats (1)Polish Brewers (1)Professional and Commercial Services (1)Publishing and News Agencies (5)Publishing and News Agencies in Asia-Pacific (2)Publishing and News Agencies in Europe (2)Publishing and News Agencies in the United States (1)Railroads (39)Railroads of the Americas (4)Railroads of the United Kingdom and Ireland (7)South Atlantic Railroads (2)South West England Railroads (1)Swedish Railroads (1)Swiss Railroads (1)United States Brewers (2)United States Movies and Entertainment Companies Founded Before 1950 (1)United States Railroads (11)West North Central Brewers (1)West South Central Railroads (1)Headquartered InAllAtlanta (1)Berlin (2)Brandenburg an der Havel (1)Bremen (1)Chicago (2)Cleveland (1)Columbus (1)Dalian (1)Detroit (1)Dublin (1)Erfurt (1)Florida (1)Fort Worth (1)France (1)Germany (6)India (4)Ireland (3)Japan (7)Kalgoorlie (1)Leipzig (1)London (4)Luxembourg (1)Madrid (2)Minnesota (1)New Hampshire (1)New Jersey (1)New York (1)New York City (1)Ontario (1)Plymouth (1)Prague (1)San Diego (1)Semarang (1)Sunderland (1)Sweden (1)Switzerland (1)Tallinn (1)The Hague (1)Tokyo (1)Turkey (2)Ukraine (1)United Kingdom (2)United States (3)Warsaw (1)Wrocław (1)Yokosuka (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 75AG Vulcan Stettin1940sAgence Radio1940sAlton Railroad1940sAn Túr Gloine1940sAsano zaibatsu1940sAtlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad1940sBelfast and County Down Railway1940sBengal and North Western Railway1940sBergslagernas Järnvägar1940sBrennabor1940sC. 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Haenel1940sCentral Northern Railway1940sCentral Uruguay Railway1940sChemin de Fer Moudania Brousse1940sChemins de fer électriques de la Gruyère1940sClogher Valley Railway1940sCollins and Glennville Railroad1940sColumbus and Xenia Railroad1940sCompañía de los Caminos de Hierro del Norte de España1940sConsolidated Aircraft1940sDelaunay-Belleville1940sDeutsche Reichsbahn1940sDeutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau1940sDōmei Tsushin1940sEastern News Agency, Singapore1940sEmperor Ferdinand Northern Railway1940sEstonian Culture Film1940sFAMO1940sFieseler1940sFleischer Studios1940sFort Worth and Rio Grande Railway1940sGreat Western Railway1940sHaberbusch i Schiele1940sJamnagar and Dwarka Railway1940sJohn Crown & Sons1940sJordan Brewery1940sKalgoorlie Brewing and Ice Company1940sKawanishi Aircraft Company1940sLion Brewery (New York City)1940sLondon and North Eastern Railway1940sLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway1940sLuneburg-Soltau Light Railway Company1940sMadrid, Zaragoza and Alicante railway1940sManchurian Industrial Development Company1940sMaslosojuz1940sMittelwerk1940sMorvi Railway1940sNagoya Arsenal1940sNakajima Aircraft Company1940sNederlandsch-Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij1940sNissan Group1940sNorth Western of Uruguay Railway1940sNorthern Counties Committee1940sNV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw1940sPere Marquette Railway1940sPittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad1940sPorbandar State Railway1940sPort Whitby and Port Perry Railway1940sPortsmouth and Concord Railroad1940sRensselaer and Saratoga Railroad1940sRohilkund and Kumaon Railway1940sRoyal Prussian Rifle Factory Erfurt1940sSchelter and Giesecke Type Foundry1940sSchostal Photo Agency1940sSociete royale grand-ducale des chemins de fer Guillaume-Luxembourg1940sSouth Manchuria Railway1940sSouthern Railway (Turkey)1940sSouthern Railway (UK)1940sSpreewerk1940sStinson Aircraft Company1940sSussex Railroad1940sTransocean News Service1940sYasuda zaibatsu1940sYazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad1940sYokosuka Naval Arsenal1940sConnectionsShowing the first 400 of 6,503 connections.SourcesWikipedia, Microsofttier 2WikipediaContains: MicrosoftView the SourceWikipedia, Ericssontier 2WikipediaContains: EricssonView the SourceWikipedia, Apple Inc.tier 2WikipediaContains: Apple Inc.View the SourceWikipedia, JetBrainstier 2WikipediaContains: JetBrainsView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. 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