[BC] WE Field Engineering

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In a message dated 10/14/2005 12:04:30 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
stanleybadams at yahoo.com writes:

Did WE  use their field techs much the same way as the old RCA field  service
guys?  You lived where you wanted and just traveled in a  general territory
unless they needed you somewhere else.  Or did they  all come out of NYC or
Chicago and LA or what was the  scoop.



Stan:
 
My Dad, Russel O. O'Toole was a "service engineer," for RCA in the late  40's 
early 50's. His job was to service motion picture projectors and the audio  
systems for movie theaters all over northwestern Indiana and up into the south  
Chicago area. This included many drive-in theaters.
 
We lived in Logansport, Indiana at that time. 
 
They had a contract with the Coca-Cola bottling companies in Ft. Wayne and  
other locations to service the electric eye scanners that would check each  
filled and sealed coke bottle for impurities or debris floating on top of the  
cola! The system would kick out of the production line any bottle that showed a  
problem! 
 
I thought it was a neat idea but at 9-10 years old didn't have the  interest 
to learn more!
 
My rememberances.
 
 
 
 
Russel L.  O'Toole, P.C.
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