firedome
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Westinghouse
was big in Baltimore, they had Defense Electronics, Electric Motor, and Aerospace Fabrication (Sykesville) divisions, a total of 3 or 4 facilities there. My wife's step-Dad was a lawyer for Defense Electronics doing contracts with the Navy, her uncle was an EE at the same D E Division (and he's still alive at 93). The next door neighbor was an EE at the Motor Division on Taylor Ave. and everything in their house was Westinghouse.
My impression matches John's: laundry, ranges, fridges, fans, &c peaked in the mid-'50s but by early '60s quality was going downhill fast, sadly. By 1974 our neighbor at my own first house worked at the AF division doing satellite and defense fabrication. He always called it Wasteinghouse due to the numerous times they'd make something, blueprints would be changed, the structure thrown away and re-started from scratch, sometimes many times. No wonder they went broke.
was big in Baltimore, they had Defense Electronics, Electric Motor, and Aerospace Fabrication (Sykesville) divisions, a total of 3 or 4 facilities there. My wife's step-Dad was a lawyer for Defense Electronics doing contracts with the Navy, her uncle was an EE at the same D E Division (and he's still alive at 93). The next door neighbor was an EE at the Motor Division on Taylor Ave. and everything in their house was Westinghouse.
My impression matches John's: laundry, ranges, fridges, fans, &c peaked in the mid-'50s but by early '60s quality was going downhill fast, sadly. By 1974 our neighbor at my own first house worked at the AF division doing satellite and defense fabrication. He always called it Wasteinghouse due to the numerous times they'd make something, blueprints would be changed, the structure thrown away and re-started from scratch, sometimes many times. No wonder they went broke.