Admiral Chicago Plant Photos?

[Findm-Keepm]

Continental Radio and Television was Admiral's original name.....search on that and see if you can find anything. Kinda oblique, but:

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/...-Page-0080.pdf

[JacobK]

Good call - thanks!

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Findm-Keepm

Continental Radio and Television was Admiral's original name.....search on that and see if you can find anything. Kinda oblique, but:

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/...-Page-0080.pdf

As soon as Admiral Corp was sold to Rockwell International, all bets were off.
Living in Milwaukee, I saw what Rockwell did to Allen-Bradley. They had 7,000 employees, working 3 shifts. Now they have under 200. All their manufacturing was moved to China, Mexico and one European country.
I don't think they'll mess with Collins Radio, as most of their production is Government contracts.

[Steve D.]

That great Continental Radio/Admiral ad was from Radio Retailing Magazine March, 1943.
I took the liberty of isolating the factory photo. Also, I wonder if the Continental Radio/Admiral archives were just tossed or went to a university or other place?

-Steve D.

[JacobK]

That's what I've been trying to figure out. So far I'm guessing they were tossed - I've reached out to the foundation of the founder (Siragusa), the company currently using the Admiral name and others and nobody seems to know what happened to them. I'll keep searching though!

Originally Posted by Steve D.

That great Continental Radio/Admiral ad was from Radio Retailing Magazine March, 1943.
I took the liberty of isolating the factory photo. Also, I wonder if the Continental Radio/Admiral archives were just tossed or went to a university or other place?

-Steve D.

[Findm-Keepm]

Same thing with the Portsmouth GE plant. I've never seen a photo - just a line drawing on some projection TV promo literature...

I ain't lookin - just commenting.

[EdKozk2]

Originally Posted by JacobK

That's what I've been trying to figure out. So far I'm guessing they were tossed - I've reached out to the foundation of the founder (Siragusa), the company currently using the Admiral name and others and nobody seems to know what happened to them. I'll keep searching though!

JacobK,
I grew up in Chicago, and I can remember they used to fly a Blimp/ airship over the city for mapping purposes. There maybe aerial photos in existence, they would have been taken in the 70's or early 80's. One of my relatives worked at the plant on Courtland in the 40's thru the 60's. Sorry I don't have any pictures.
Ed