Then and Now: Pratt & Whitney manufacturing plant in East Hartford Connecticut

 

Then:  Advertisement in the April 1940 edition of The Architectural Forum.

 

Now (as seen via Google Maps)

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Today in Connecticut History, 1/25/2021

Today in 1940, nearly 3000 people came to East Hartford to go on a three-quarter mile walking tour of a brand new two-million-dollar factory expansion at the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft company. The 280,000 square foot expansion, for which planning had begun the previous February and ground had been broken and construction started only four months before, represented a sudden and dramatic turnaround in the fortunes of the innovative aviation pioneer. 

At the end of 1938, the situation at Pratt and Whitney could best have been described as bleak. Despite the company’s leadership in air-cooled aircraft engine technology, years of cutbacks in defense spending by the US government had drastically affected the entire aviation industry, whose total assets were then barely equal to one of the country’s big national breweries. By the end of the year, Pratt and Whitney had reduced its payroll to fewer than 3000 workers, and only had enough orders booked to keep the East Hartford plant running until May 1st.

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