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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
