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Nike Manufacturing Facility
in
Burlington, NC
Table of Contents
- Text and images - from Bill Harmon
- Nike Missile Manufacturing - from Charles Everett
- Douglas Tailors Plant for Nike Hercules - from Greg Brown
- Burlington nominates former Western Electric plant ... (successfully) - from Thomas Page
- Nike Ajax assembly line - image on wikimedia - link from Chuck Zellers
Text and images - from Bill Harmon
Nike Missile Manufacturing
from Charles Everett
Nike Ajax Missile Manufacturing - 110 K Bytes November 12th, 1959 – the Douglas Aircraft Manufacturing complex in Charlotte, North Carolina – Nike Hercules missile in their shipping containers stand ready to be shipped out for deployment.
Douglas Tailors Plant for Nike Hercules
from Greg Brown
Douglas Tailors Plant for Nike Hercules - .pdf 1.2 MBytes
Burlington nominates former Western Electric plant to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Successfully)
from Thomas Page
"... It was transformed into an aircraft factory during World War II and was best known for its production and testing of the Nike Missile Guidance System during the Cold War. ...."
The images to the left were stolen from the Triad Businness Journal article mentioned above -
- Dec 10, 2016, Thomas Page notes the New York Times article: Burlington sites have been added to U.S. historic register. The image to the left was stolen from the NY Times article mentioned above -
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