New England Westinghouse Company
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new-england-westinghouse-company-232-1416048
title:
New England Westinghouse Company
text:
The New England Westinghouse Company is a former division of Westinghouse Electric. It was founded in 1915 in East Springfield, Massachusetts. 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. In order to produce the rifles, they purchased the J Stevens Arms & Tool Company in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts on 1 July 1916 and acquired all its holdings which included firearms and tool manufacturing facilities,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Westinghouse_Company
date created:
2014-01-16T05:50:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T21:54:05Z
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