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Old 08-23-2022, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Hawkwind View Post
Here's a gallery of images inside an RCA factory in 1944. What they are building is, I guess, radios for the war effort...

https://www.uer.ca/locations/viewgal...74&galid=28969
RCA's main plant was in Camden, New Jersey, a suburb of New York City. I do not ever remember seeing RCA anywhere in Canada. I read somewhere, however (don't recall where at the moment) that there was an RCA plant in Canada many years ago. Was this the same RCA plant as the one in the United States of America, or am I thinking of some other radio manufacturer?

BTW, I don't think RCA in New Jersey even existed during World War II, since most radio manufacturing was shut down tighter than a drum for the duration of the war. As I understand it (I am 66 years old and had not been born yet when WWII began), radio repair shops were doing makeshift repairs on radios just to get them working (in some cases just enough to get local stations) at that time, due to lack of proper repair parts.
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