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What a great story!

Alliance Laundry Systems, who makes Speed Queen is privately owned. The major investor in Alliance is a Canadian teachers' pension fund. Not a big corporation that is just trying to maximize quarterly financial results to appease analysts and stockholders. (Not that there's anything fundamentally wrong with being a stockholder, but I hope you get the point.)

This may have been posted previously here, but see link for a recent story about Alliance expanding their production facilities:

"Alliance Laundry Systems of Ripon announced an expansion Friday that is expected to create between 250 and 270 jobs. The designer and manufacturer of washers and dryers for commercial laundries said its $23 million expansion will increase production capacity for small chassis washers and dryers in Ripon by 40%."

I think the "small chassis washers and dryers" include the machines that are sold for the consumer retail market.

 
I like the fact that they are creating new jobs.

That is quite something, 60 years on the job. I sure he has seen many an employee come and go. That is quite some dedication.

I wonder why all his parts have to have the "red dot" on them?
 
I think the red dot is a QA function to demonstrate that the pressure tube and pressure switch are working correctly...after all, if they don't, the new machine could flood the customer's laundry room

But it would be cool to buy a new SQ that had everyone sign the back of the machine.

Back when I worked in the commercial real estate/construction biz, it was tradition to have everyone sign the last steel beam with grease pens before it got erected at the top of the structure.
 
Wow, you just don't see this kind of dedication anymore.

I think that it isn't just amazing that he stuck with the company for that long, but the company actually had him as an employee for that long as well!

I'm very happy to hear this company is expanding and that they're hiring.

I can only hope that this company stays privately owned, rather than shareholders getting in the MBA's so they can cut costs at the expense of the customer to bring up the stock price.

I will do anything I can to recommend this company. I wish more Canadian companies were like this.
 
An apartment complex I lived in -was in the Wash DC area-in the early 70's had the McGraw Edison Solid tub washers in their coin laundramat-they were favorites!Esp the deep rinse!The blades of the agitator were covered with water!
 
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...

 
McGraw Edison technical books were the best-have MANY of them.
Allis Chalmers motors are used on the cooling water pumps for the older (60yrs)Continental electronics 500Kw SW transmitters here.each transmitter has 3 20hp pumps.When I visited the Continental Electronics factory in Dallas,Texas-their site is fed by three very large Allis Chalmers transformers.the bulk of that power needed for transmitter testing-they build transmitters to 2MW!
the Solar genset group is now owned by Caterpillar.Wished our site had those gensets instead of the deisel.If our site had 2 4.5 MW Solar-Cat gensets we could run anything here without "Babying" the generator-the Army Corps of Engineers is another Cat-Solar user.
Yes enjoyed the start-run of the IH Solar genset.The Navy ships built today are powered by similar turbine engines.
 
My uncle used to design really high-power RF antenna stuff for Turner and Collins back in the 1960s and 1970s. It was for (obviously) military applications. He has pictures of the transmitter tests using gigantic EIMAC tubes that are about the size of an adult person. I think they were getting better that 1-Megawatt ERPs back then - in any case enough power that if the waveguides were misaligned, the transmitters would burn holes in them...
 
lowegian:
At our site we use the "Person" sized tubes-some from Eimac-others from Thales out of Germany or Switzerland.These can cost over $150,000 each!And yes,we have had plenty of "molten Metal" incidents here.some of the transmitters have the built in cranes to pull or lift the tubes into their sockets.The sockets can cost as much or more than the tubes.The filament connections esp burn them.One tube needs 12V DC filament voltage at 2000A!
 

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