Joe Garrett wrote:
>
> Xerox wasn't born yet, I don't think.
But the company now known as IBM made punch card readers and tabulators for the
German Government (if the recent news stories and book are to be believed...) Not
exactly a MV, but inventory control of supplies, vehicles, personnel and
concentration camp prisoners were vital to their war effort.
Dave Richoux
>
> Acme Electric, a transformer/power supply manufacturer
> near here, still had the windows painted over in the
> 1970's.
>
> Clark Industries, no telling what all they made, but
> there is the Clark airborne dozer.
>
> Worthington, compressors and ship fittings I would
> guess.
>
> Crosley, in Cleveland, made radios, proximity fuzes,
> and a jeep prototype among many other things.
>
> My father worked in the Buffalo shipyards welding up
> new landing craft 12 hours/day 7 days/ week for almost
> a year in 1941, then signed up.
>
> He drove an M-26 from Pacific Car and Foundry.
>
> Joe
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