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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 304-308 Hart Street were announced today.

 

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

 

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