It sold most of its heavy-truck business to Volvo and tried to arrange a deal with John Deere for the engine division.

G.E.'s engine division already pioneered the packaging of engines with services and financing to increase sales and profits.

Pratt & Whitney hired a Boeing executive, James T. Johnson, to run its large commercial engine division.

In 2004, the two teams announced a program to combine their engine divisions, a move which greatly improved the power of both organizations' engines.

Her father retired as a project leader in the technical writing group for General Electric's jet engine manufacturing division in Lynn, Mass.

In 1938 he joined the De Havilland Aircraft company as general manager of their engine division but the following year chose to become a patent consultant.

The engine division has shown that it can turn the difficulties of an industry downturn into an opportunity.

In December 2008, the company closed its engine manufacturing division.

Sales at the truck division fell 5 percent in 1992, 2 percent at the marine engine division and 10 percent at the aviation division.

But the costs of integrating these companies and the engine division were higher than expected.