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Hevi-Duty
Electric Co
1953
11 19 1953
Announcement was made by Mrs.
Muriel Thauer, president of Perfection Table Slide, that negotiations
have been completed for the sale of its equipment and inventor to the Watertown
Table Slide Corporation and for the sale of the Perfection factory building and
real estate to Hevi Duty Electric Company of
Milwaukee. It is expected that the Hevi Duty Company will take possession before the end of
this summer and thus bring to Watertown a substantial new industry.
1957
02 16 1957
Plans for a $75,000 addition to
the plant of the Hevi-Duty Electric Co. at
The addition will extend west 66
by 316.5 feet, and north 68 by 231 feet, from the present plant.
The application for a building
permit was signed by Al Krause, local building contractor, acting as agent.
07 21 1957
The Hevi-Duty
Electric Co., operating plants in Milwaukee and Watertown, is playing an
important part in bettering lighting controls at the nation's airports and has
just been awarded a $757,000 contract for 47 new lighting substations by the
Civil Aeronautics Administration. The
newest type of regulators will permit operators in control towers to vary the
brightness of lighting with ease, at the same time knowing from a control board
whether the lights are operating at the proper level. As a result, safe
landings can be assured despite inclement weather.
07 27 1957
The Froedtert
Corp. of Milwaukee today announced the purchase of about 25,000 shares of
common stock of the Hevi-Duty Electric Co. of
Milwaukee and Watertown. Froedtert Board Chairman Anthony von Wening
said the purchase was the first step in the corporation's program of
diversification through investments. He
said the purchase was less than 10 per cent of Hevi-Duty's
outstanding common stock, but it was understood it made Froedtert
the large single stockholder of Hevi-Duty. Hevi-Duty, which was incorporated in Wisconsin in 1924, had
net sales of nearly 11 million dollars in 1956.
It produces electric furnaces, current regulators and transformers.
1958
10 15 New
furnace for determination of compression strength of coke and ore pellets
at high temps WDT
1961
02
26 The Hevi-Duty
Electric Co., a division of Basic Products Corporation, Milwaukee, has
broadened its export market with its first shipment of a large gas-fired
conveyor furnace to the Orient. The
32-ton furnace is being transported by rail from Watertown to the port of
Baltimore, and shipped from there to the Philippines. It will be used by Inter-Island Gas Service
Company, Manila, for heat treatment of metals under a licensing agreement with
Pressed Steel Tank Company, Milwaukee. WDT
04
07 A record-sized “Clean-Line”
heat-treating furnace, constructed with double chambers, has been built and
shipped as a unit by the Hevi-Duty Electric Company,
Watertown, for use in the processing of airplane parts. The fully automatic “Clean-Line” unit, so big
it required a special rail car for shipment, is the largest in size ever
constructed in one piece in the Hevi-Duty plant,
although bigger furnaces have been field-erected in customers’ works. Hevi-Duty, a
division of Basic Products Corporation, Milwaukee, used a 60-foot-long rail car
to ship the equipment to its destination in Ohio. WDT
