First for Speed Queen, then for Hydralique...
It's a long story that people in the Pittsburgh area know quite well. To make it short, Westinghouse was a diverse company that had a broadcasting division - Westinghouse Broadcasting. They owned KDKA here in Pgh and KDKA radio was the first radio station ever. Toward the end, they maybe owned about 20 stations throughout the country. Later, WH bought the CBS Corporation in the 80s but eventually what happened is that, with their industrial divisions not making much money, one of the CEOs switched the name of the company to CBS to concentrate on the most profitable business. Westinghouse as an independent corporation "died" as of 1997, when the flag was taken down at the Pittsburgh headquarters (I was told by someone at the Westinghouse museum that people actually cried when that happened). Later, under the CBS name, more divisions were sold off and the only part left of the original Westinghouse in this area is the nuclear power division which is actually part of Toshiba. In fact, there are more abandoned facilities that have the circle W logo than there are active places. The company, probably CBS, licenses the Westinghouse name and logo to other companies for lamps and digital TVs - actually manufactured by another company.
Hydralique, I still think that no matter what color, the AP1000 still stands out over the landscape like a dunce cap. I wonder how many utilities are turned off by the look and may end up buying the Areva reactor because it is better looking and hard to not see. I know I would!
