Looks like SQ had other facilities once upon a time

[washman]

http://books.google.com/books?id=Xm...q=speed queen factory ripon wisconsin&f=false

Hope the link is clickable. When you click it it takes you the Feb 1972 issue of Ebony Magazine page 61.

Notice the Speed Queen ad. Factories in Searcy Ark, Ripon, Omro, and Wautoma Wisconsin!

I thought the Searcy facility was a Norge/Maytag/Whirlpool facility? Did SQ once upon a time contract out the manufacturing of their dryers perhaps?

I'd sure like to know!

 

[hydralique]

Nice SQ ad, but I'll admit I really like the ad for shoes a few pages away, it's so 1972!

 

[washman]

Another article

Speed Queen to modernize plant. (clothes dryer plant, Searcy, Arkansas) (Brief Article)

Article from: American Metal Market | May 18, 1992 | Copyright

DETROIT -- Speed Queen Co., a subsidiary of Raytheon Co., in modernizing its clothes dryer manufacturing plant in Searcy, Ark., with equipment that's both more productive and flexible. Cold-rolled sheet and Galva-lume are used extensively is Speed Queen's appliances, but company sources said the increase in capacity won't necessarily mean the plant's steel consumption will be going up. …