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The General Electric corporation had a presence in the town of Waynesboro, Virginia since 1953. GE sold its holding to the Genicom Corporation in 1981, and Genicom merged to become Tally-Genicom in 2003. == Background == In the early 1950s the General Electric Company was a highly centralized operation with six major manufacturing "works", as they were called. They were located in Schenectady, NY; Pittsfield, MA; Lynn, MA; Philadelphia, PA, Erie, PA; and Ft. Wayne, IN. At that time, under Ralph Cordiner's presidency, a major decentralization occurred whereby larger business groups were divided into individual operating departments, with new plants built in many different locations across the country. The previous Industrial Control Division, located in Schenectady, NY, was subdivided into four such departments, each of the first three with a common product line sufficient for efficient and viable operation as separate entities. The Industry Control Department, building control systems for large industry such as cranes, steel, paper, marine and submarine panels, and similar segments of industry, was located in Salem, VA. The General Purpose Control Department, building smaller control components such as relays and contractors for general industrial applications, was located in Bloomington, IL. The Appliance Control Department, building control systems for the company's consumer products; i.e., refrigerators, oil burners, and small switching devices, was located in Morrison, IL. The Specialty Control Department came to Waynesboro, VA, bringing the remaining heterogeneous components of the original Control Division, no one of which could survive as a separate entity as could the first three. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of General Electric in Waynesboro, Virginia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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