Wow, McGraw Edison is a blast-from-the-past name.
They used to make really good smaller AC motors.
But once you got to the bigger size range, Allis-Chalmers used to make some really good motors. Yep, the people that made farm tractors. You can still find Allis-Chalmers motors attached to fire pumps and other critical duty machinery.
And International Harvester, another tractor company, used to make turbine engine (jet engine) generators for Western Electric (AT&T's manufacturing arm) and for the military to power our critical infrastructure in case we got nuked in the 1960s...
Check out the link to hear an I-H Solar gas turbine generator in action...anyone that digs machinery will probably like this...