[Milsurplus] Re: surplus ships fleet

[Ben Dover]

>The professor who told me about the new Hallicrafters receivers being
>crushed and jackets being burned eluded to this. While he didn't site
>a specific contract or agreement, when I asked him why he replied that
>they weren't allowed to bring it back and offer it on the open market
>as it would flood the market with cheap stuff and hose the economy.
>Big no-no.


Here's one that'll make ya cry. It's been going around the Chicago area 
since the end of WW2.

The old Hallicrafters plant on Kostner Avenue was turning out SCR-299 sets
(BC-610 transmitters and BC-312 receivers) like crazy at the end of the
war. They KEPT turning them out at VJ Day, completing the contracts already
issued.

The finaihed sets were supposedly loaded onto trucks, and taken across the
Indiana state line, to the Sate Line Power Plant (a big coal fired outfit
on Lake Michigan).

Once there, the crates were unloaded...  right into the bay next to the
plant!

A variation of that tale... the same thing supposedly happened to hundreds
of Pratt & Whitney engines for B-29s that came from the old Ford City plant
on the south side of town.


Mr. T., W9LBB