Re: Overseas Hammond Factories

[Marco Montaruli <genpla@flashnet.it>]

At 21:06 04/01/96 -0500, b3nut@madison.tdsnet.com (Todd A. Phipps) wrote:
>I was curious as to how many factories Hammond had overseas, where they
>were and what they made.  I noticed an earlier post referring to a plant in
>Antwerp.  This is quite fascinating!

I am the author of that post.

Apart from Chicago, where more than one plant operated, Hammond organs were
built on licence in the following locations:

Antwerp, BELGIUM        (Hammond Organ Europe)
Montreal, CANADA        (Northern Hammond / northern electric compani Ltd.)
Toronto, CANADA         (Hammond Intl.)
Sondeborg, DENMARK      (Brodr. Jorgensen A/S)
London, ENGLAND         (Boosey & Hawkes, J.R.Lafleur & Son, Hammond Org.U.K.)
Hamburg, GERMANY        (Deutsche Hammond Instrument)
Torino, ITALY           (Microtecnica)
JAPAN                   (several divisions, no tonewhel organs)
Mexico City, MEXICO     (Organos Hammond de Mexico)
SOUTH AFRICA            (Boosey & Hawkes)
Lausanne, SWITZERLAND   (Hammond S.A.)


Really not bad!

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