WT Grant/Bradford appliance sourcing

[jamiel]

Saw an interesting advertisement on a FB group that popped up in my feed on WT Grant.

In 1966, it looks like WT Grant acknowledged that:
Refrigerators/Freezers sourced from St. Cloud, MN (Studebaker-Franklin)
Washers/Dryers from Webster City, IA (ditto)
Other appliances from Minneapolis (??) , Belleville, IL (doubtless Peerless/Premier ranges), Cleveland, TN (Magic Chef-ranges) and Mansfield, OH (probably Westinghouse for dishwashers)

Any idea what appliance manufacturer was in Minneapolis? Did Zenith move south from Duluth at some point?

 

[jamiel]

and with a little work looks like Minneapolis was a Seeger/WP refrigerator plant.

 

[combo52]

Whirlpool had a huge plant in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where they assembled and built the Segger designed whirlpool Rotary refrigeration compressors.

I believe they also made vacuum cleaners there and they may have made their early dishwashers there before they opened the Findlay Ohio plant for dishwashers.