Electro-Motive Company Relocates to Willimantic

Electro-Motive Company Relocates to Willimantic

The Willimantic Chamber of Commerce grants New York radio component firm Electro-Motive $5,000 to relocate to Willimantic in an attempt to diversify manufacturing and move away from textile production. Electro-Motive agrees, and moves its operations to the abandoned Rossie Velvet Company mill on South Street, and would later occupy buildings on Bridge Street.

Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile & History Community, 1993), 85.

1939

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