10-16-2007, 10:00 PM
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Location: Beautiful Cumberland Valley, in PA
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Colt Firearms - NoArk disconnect.
Saw this disconnect on an old coal fired boiler in an apartment building a couple weeks ago. I didn't have my regular camera on me, so I took a cell phone pic. Hard to believe that the Colt Firearms company once made electrical materials.
From the net:
The business of arms manufacture fluctuates greatly, affected by external political forces. When the firearms business slowed at Colt’s, usually between wars, the company manufactured non-firearm products under its own brand name. It also manufactured products contracted for by other companies and rented space to other manufacturers. Often these businesses drew upon the skilled workforce and technological The business of arms manufacture fluctuates greatly, affected by external political forces. When the firearms business slowed at Colt’s, usually between wars, the company manufactured non-firearm products under its own brand name. It also manufactured products contracted for by other companies and rented space to other manufacturers. Often these businesses drew upon the skilled workforce and technological innovations of the Colt Fire Arms plant. Most touted their manufacturing address as “Colt’s Armory” in their advertisements, trading on the company’s reputation for reliability and precision manufacture. The prototype for the 18,000-part Paige typesetter, which Mark Twain lost a fortune investing in, was made at the Colt factory. Successful Colt-made products included Baxter Portable steam engines; Noark electrical equipment, such as switchboxes; Morrison and Charter Oak sewing machines; Universal printing presses; Thorne’s typesetting machines; Federal adding machines; Charter Oak and Archimedean lawn mowers; Autosan commercial dishwashers; and Railway Alarm ticket punches for trains and streetcars. The Colt Plastics division, which operated between 1920 and 1955, manufactured firearm grips, electric plugs and outlets under the name “ColtRock,” buttons, costume jewelry, and other consumer productsinnovations of the Colt Fire Arms plant. Most touted their manufacturing address as “Colt’s Armory” in their advertisements, trading on the company’s reputation for reliability and precision manufacture. The prototype for the 18,000-part Paige typesetter, which Mark Twain lost a fortune investing in, was made at the Colt factory. Successful Colt-made products included Baxter Portable steam engines; Noark electrical equipment, such as switchboxes; Morrison and Charter Oak sewing machines; Universal printing presses; Thorne’s typesetting machines; Federal adding machines; Charter Oak and Archimedean lawn mowers; Autosan commercial dishwashers; and Railway Alarm ticket punches for trains and streetcars. The Colt Plastics division, which operated between 1920 and 1955, manufactured firearm grips, electric plugs and outlets under the name “ColtRock,” buttons, costume jewelry, and other consumer products
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