by Ron Rich »
Wed Oct 07, 2015 11:10 pm
Hi Ken,
"Taken over", I don't think is the correct way to state this--
As I understand it, the govt issued specs for needed products, and anyone who felt their factory could build it, could bid on it. In some cases, some specs made no sense at all, as they were just "parts" of a much larger project. Seeburg built one such--the sight for the Nordon bomb delivery system. As it was tolt to me by an "old timer" at Seeburg at that time, they did not know what was being done with that sight, nor, most of the other "stuff" they built. They were not able to purchase any material used in the making of jukeboxes at that time--just what the War Dept. allowed for whichever contracts were in force. Ron Rich