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To: Chad C. Mulligan
Well, GE was never in the machine tool business

Tools that were used in the GE tool shops in Schenectady in the first half of the 20th century, whoever manufactured them.

41 posted on 04/05/2024 10:20:19 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

I was in and out of Schenectady a few times. You would have seen Bullards, Giddings & Lewis, Lucas, Kearney & Trecker, Monarch, American, Sundstrand, Lodge & Shipley, deVlieg, and not a single foreign-made machine of any kind until the late ‘80s. By then the American industry was all but dead, and GE was buying German. My rep there made a fortune on one order for about a dozen big German machining centers at nearly half a million apiece.


43 posted on 04/05/2024 10:41:36 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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