Re: ... and a fine time was had by all. Fsck, fsck, fsck!
- From: wollman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Garrett Wollman)
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:53:56 +0000 (UTC)
In article <hdli6i$s5o$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Lionel <imagenoir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Erwan David wrote:
Lionel <imagenoir@xxxxxxxxx> disait le 11/13/09 que :
Hmm. Jrfgvatubhfr?
This make me things more of nuclear power plants or train braking
systems...
Fridges under that same brand name were very popular in Oz for many years.
In the home country as well -- although it's worth noting that the
train brakes were Westinghouse Air Brake Company whereas the kitchen
appliances and nuke plants (and broadcasting) were Westinghouse
Electric Company. There are actually five railway-related businesses
under (some version of) the Westinghouse name, none of which have any
current connection to the others; it's one of the more fragmented
brand names in the industrial world. Westinghouse Electric was
originally a railway-related business as well, making electric
traction motors, although its primary business, of course, was
Alternating Current -- Tesla was one of the first employees.
Ironically, WEC's British business ended up in the same hands as GE's
British business, and that company, British Thomson-Houston,
eventually ended up in the hands of GEC (no relation). (And that
company, of course, eventually ended up in the hands of GE's former
French business, Thomson, which -- entirely independently -- also
ended up with GE's and RCA's former consumer-electronics businesses
after GE reswallowed RCA in 1986.)
Westinghouse Electric merged with CBS in 1995-6 and spun off all of
its non-broadcasting assets, renaming the parent company CBS Corp.,
then merging with Viacom a couple of years later (acquiring, among
sundary other assets, the few remaining natural resources assets of
the former Gulf+Western Industries, one of Viacom's ancestors by a
previous merger). A few years ago, Viacom split up, but with a
different asset mix. (GE, meanwhile, ended up with NBC as a result of
its purchase of RCA as mentioned above, and is now trying to get rid
of it while it still has value to someone.)
The Westinghouse nuclear business changed hands a few times and is now
owned by Toshiba.
-GAWollman
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