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      The Wright Company or Wright & Co. was the initial aviation 
      business of the Wright Brothers, who had previously run a bicycle shop.
       
       
      They established the company in 1909 to sell aircraft to the US Army 
      Signal Corps.  
       
      The Wright Brothers concentrated their efforts on protecting their patent 
      rights rather than on improving their aircraft. In 1916, trying to catch 
      up their competitors, they merged their company with Martin to form 
      Wright-Martin.  
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