| 词条 | New England Westinghouse Company |
| 释义 |
The New England Westinghouse Company is a former division of Westinghouse Electric. It was founded in 1915 in East Springfield, Massachusetts.[1] Its primary purpose was to fulfill a contract to produce 1.8 million Mosin–Nagant rifles for Czar Nicholas II of Russia during World War I.[2] In order to produce the rifles, they purchased the J Stevens Arms & Tool Company in Chicopee Falls, MA on 1 July 1916 and acquired all its holdings which included firearms and tool manufacturing facilities, and the Stevens-Duryea automobile factory.[1] They sold the tool manufacturing portion of Stevens and shut down production of Stevens-Duryea automobiles and civilian firearms. The remaining Stevens firearms facility was renamed the J Stevens Arms Company and its machinery was retooled to meet the Mosin–Nagant contract. After some 770,000 rifles had been produced, the Czar was deposed, the Russian government defaulted on the contract, and New England Westinghouse did not receive payment. The company entered hard times and started producing M1918 Browning Automatic Rifles at the former Stevens-Duryea factory that was originally constructed for car manufacturing in 1912.[3][4] In 1920 they sold the J Stevens Arms Company to Savage Arms[5] but kept the automobile factory for use producing commercial products for Westinghouse Electric.[1] In 1921, the Stevens-Duryea factory was the location of the first broadcasts of WBZ (AM), the first commercial radio station in the United States.[6] New England Westinghouse was dissolved on 8 October 1926 by the Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County, MA.[1] Westinghouse continued to operate the facility until its closure, with a foundry and knitting company operating at the factory location. The buildings were demolished (with the exception of the Westinghouse office building along Page Blvd.) and the land cleared in 2010, with the eventual goal of placing a mixed development on the site.[7][8][9] FutureIn 2009–2011, Ameristar Casinos (now under Pinnacle Entertainment) acquired use of this property for a $910 million resort casino, paying $16 million for the property. However, the proposal was eventually dropped in the face of competition from MGM and Penn National Gaming, who also wanted to build casinos in Springfield.[10] MGM would eventually win the rights to build in Springfield. Changchun Railway Vehicles later purchased the property for a new $65 million railcar assembly facility. This facility is planned to be responsible for the manufacturing and delivery of 132 new Red Line and 152 new Orange line subway cars for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. On October 21, 2014, the MBTA submitted their recommendation of CNR Changchung Rail to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.[11] Construction of the new facility was expected to begin in the fall of 2015.[12]References1. ^1 2 3 {{Cite book|title = A Short Illustrated History of the J. Stevens Arms & Tool Company|last = Vorisek|first = Joseph|publisher = Cornell Publications|year = 1992|isbn = |location = |pages = 4–7}} {{Westinghouse}}{{Coord|42|8|24.01|N|72|33|21.05|W|display=title}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/Mosinprimer.htm|title=A Brief Overview of the Mosin Nagant Rifle|publisher=7.62x54r.net|accessdate=16 January 2014}} 3. ^Wise, David Burgess. "Stevens-Duryea: A Very Limited Company", in Ward, Ian, executive editor. World of Automobiles (London: Orbis Publishing), Volume 19, p.2188. 4. ^{{cite book|title=Electrical World (New York, N.Y. : 1906), Volume 74, Issues 1-13|publisher=Electrical World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zx8VAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA620&lpg=PA620&dq=east+springfield+westinghouse+factory&source=bl&ots=4wBehQ7tKy&sig=wbZmHGRVEdJCxQkRNntdEFPWqeA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fWjXUo3hB4issAT4wYGwBw&ved=0CFkQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=east%20springfield%20westinghouse%20factory&f=false}} 5. ^{{Cite book|title = A Short Illustrated History of the Savage Arms Company 1895 to 1945|last = Vorisek|first = Joseph|publisher = Cornell Publications|year = 1994|isbn = |location = |pages = 4}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=A Chronology of AM Radio Broadcasting 1900-1960|url=http://jeff560.tripod.com/chrono1.html|work=History of American Broadcasting|accessdate=16 January 2014}} 7. ^{{cite news|last1=Saulmon|first1=Greg|title=Your stories: Remembering Westinghouse Electric|url=http://www.masslive.com/history/index.ssf/2011/08/your_stories_remembering_westinghouse_electric.html|accessdate=26 January 2016|work=masslive.com|date=10 May 2011}} 8. ^{{cite news|last1=Danton|first1=Eric|title=Man Burned In Foundry Explosion Dies|url=http://articles.courant.com/1999-02-27/news/9902270216_1_foundry-critical-condition-explosion|accessdate=26 January 2016|work=Hartford Courant|date=27 February 1999}} 9. ^{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://www.alamacusa.com/about/about.html|website=www.alamacusa.com|accessdate=26 January 2016}} 10. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/real_estate/2012/10/ameristar-places-bet-on-springfield.html | title=Ameristar places bet on Springfield casino (slide show) | publisher=Boston Business Journal | date=Oct 23, 2012 | accessdate=July 29, 2015 | author=Grillo, Thomas}} 11. ^{{cite web | url=http://www3.springfield-ma.gov/cos/1696.0.html | title=Governor Patrick Announces MBTA’s Recommended Company to Build New Subway Cars in Massachusetts | date=October 21, 2014 | accessdate=July 29, 2015}} 12. ^{{cite news|title=CNR MA rail car factory groundbreaking set for Sept. 3|url=http://www.masslive.com/business-news/index.ssf/2015/08/cnr_ma_rail_car_factory_groundbreaking_s.html|accessdate=26 January 2016|work=masslive.com}} 7 : Firearm manufacturers of the United States|Manufacturing companies based in Massachusetts|Companies based in Springfield, Massachusetts|Westinghouse Electric Company|Manufacturing companies established in 1915|1915 establishments in Massachusetts|Stevens Arms |
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