In the 1930s and during World War II, Elliott supplied the United States Navy with some of the electric motors and generators used in fleet submarines under the name Elliott Motor Company. Elliott's entry in the "Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships" shows its name abbreviated as Ell, and may be the source of a common misspelling of the company's name as "Elliot". The Elliott company's broader war contribution included turbines, generators, blowers, ejectors, heaters, and other warship and engine parts.