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{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Manufacturer
| primary_town = San Jose
| primary_dates=1883-1929
| successors = [[Food Machinery Corporation]].
}}
The '''Bean Spray Pump Company''' was an agricultural tools manufacturer founded in San Jose by John Bean. The company specialized in spray and pump equipment, but also manufactured firefighting apparatus, motors, and even a tractor. The company joined with the [[Anderson-Barngrover]] Manufacturing Company, [[Stebler-Parker Company]], and [[Sprague-Sells]] Corporation into the [[Food Machinery Corporation]] in 1929<ref>Vincent Moses, [http://archive.org/stream/californiahistor61cali/californiahistor61cali_djvu.txt "Machines in the Garden: A Citrus Monopoly in Riverside, 1900-1936"]California History, Volume 61, 1982-1983, California Historical Society.</ref>. Spray pump equipment was still sold under the Bean brand for quite some time; a 1946 instruction manual for the Bean Royal Spray listed the manufacturer as t he Bean-Cutler Division of the Food Machinery Corporation.

John Bean, the founder, had been an inventor and pump maker in Michigan. In 1880, Bean moved to California to recover from tuberculosis in the better climate, and settled in Los Gatos. He soon found his ten acres of apricots were overrun by scale. Frustrated with the quality of insecticide pumps, he built a high-pressure sprayer, and began selling it to other orchardists<ref>Ken Robison, [https://www.gasenginemagazine.com/gas-engines/100-years-of-john-bean-spray-pump-company 100 Years of John Bean Spray Pump Company]. August/September 1985 Gas Engine Magazine.</ref>.

The company moved to San Jose in 1884. John Bean turned over the company to his son-in-law, David Crummey, in 1888.

In 1910, the company expanded easy, building a factory in Berea, Ohio; the factory was relocated to Lansing Michigan in 1914.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
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! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
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| Lansing, MI || 1936-1970 || 1305 South Cedar || "John Bean Building", closed in 1974<ref>[https://www.rofo.com/building/MI/Lansing/1305-South-Cedar-Street-178692.html 1305 South Cedar]. roof.com real estate lease information.</ref>. Produced fire trucks and military vehicles<ref>[https://wmmq.com/a-rare-look-at-lansings-john-bean-building/ A Rare Look at Lansing's John Bean Building]. WMMQ Classic Rock.</ref>.
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| San Jose, CA || 1900-1986 || 213 West Julian St. || FMC ceased manufacturing in 1986, and tore down the buildings in 1997<ref>California State Water Quality Control Board, [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&ved=2ahUKEwiAnd3v4vzkAhW2JzQIHTkjB3QQFjAKegQIAxAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterboards.ca.gov%2Frwqcb2%2F%2Fboard_info%2Fagendas%2F2001%2Fmarch%2F01-031.doc&usg=AOvVaw0K6yQYwpmregzAi_33xyEh FMC Julian Final Site Cleanup Requirements]. Order 01-031, March 21, 2001. Manufacturing at the site left hydrocarbons, volatile organic compounds, and metals in the soil.</ref>
|-
|}

==References==
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