Re: Overseas Hammond Factories

["louis (l.) couture" <coutur@bnr.ca>]

In message "Re: Overseas Hammond Factories",  Marco writes:

>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.)
>

I would like to add to that the Northern Electric plant in Belleville Ontario 
CANADA 
which together with the Montreal plant produced the "Northern Hammond" organs
way back at the time of the model BC & BV.

Northern Electric has now become Northern Telecom (NORTEL) which manufactures
telephone and data communication equipment. The plant in Belleville is still 
going
strong manufacturing PBXs and data network switches.

I gather that the Belleville plant had leftover parts from its organ 
manufacturing
years up to 4 years ago when it junked everything. I became aware after the 
fact.

Business takes me to that plant every now and then since I work for NORTELs R&D 
subsidiary (BNR) designing products that are manufactured there. Every visit 
to the plant is punctuated by a spinning of the old faithfull model D that 
still sits in the cafeteria.



Louis Couture                coutur@bnr.ca            Ottawa Ontario CANADA