The Western Electric Co, manfuacturing arm of the Bell System, had three large factory complexes ("works") in Chicago (Hawthorne), Kearny NJ, and Baltimore (Breezy Pt). I get the impression all three are long closed up, if the buildings even exist?
W/E also built some newer facilities to make computer components for modern gear, such as in Allentown PA. I take it today Lucent (successor to W/E) uses those places, though I presume Lucent is far, far smaller than W/E. I also recall W/E having a modern office building in Newark NJ (near the train station) in the mid 1980s, and I wonder if that is in use by Lucent today.
FWIW, in W/E's early days, they made relays for Hollerith's tabulating machines. Hollerith's outfit became IBM.
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