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He ini Radio News Service
4/24/46
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RCA BUYS $4,362,500 NAVY ELECTRON AND TV TUBE PLANT
What is said to be the most modern electron and televi¬ sion tube manufacturing plant in the world, located at Lancaster, Pa., has been purchased from the U. S. Navy Department by the RCA Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of America, it was announced yesterday (Tuesday, April 23) by Frank M. Folsom, RCA Executive Vice President in charge of the Division, which built and operated the plant for the Navy during the war. The purchase price was $4,362,500.
The availability of television for the public will be advanced considerably by RCA Victor’s acquisition of the plant,
Mr. Folsom stated. The plant is the largest in existence for the manufacture of cathode-ray picture tubes used in television receiv¬ ers and television camera pick-up tubes. These tubes, he declared, will be made available not only to his own company, but to other television home instrument and broadcast equipment manufacturers.
An additional investment of $2,000,000 is to be made by RCA, Victor, Mr. Folsom said, to expand and further modernize the plant’s high-speed production equipment for the manufacture of cathode-ray tubes.
The plant contains 396,000 square feet of floor space and stands on a tract of 99 acres. The present personnel is about 1000, of which 90 percent are permanent residents of Lancaster and vicin¬ ity. As peacetime production expands, according to Mr. Folsom, employment is expected to rise until it equals or exceeds the plant's peak wartime level.
During the years from its completion at the end of 1942 until the end of the war, the Lancaster plant was the largest single supplier of cathode-ray and pcwer tubes for war critical radar, shoran, loran, radio altimeter, and airborne television (’’block" and "ring") equipments used by the various armed services. Other vital wartime products included high-sensitivity multiplier photo-tubes used for jamming enemy radar and high-frequency magne¬ trons used in fine-detail radar mapping. Peak production, reached in June, 1944, was equal to a rate of $30,000,000 a year.
In disclosing future plans, L. W. Tee garden, Vice-Presi¬ dent in charge of the Tube Department, stated that the plant will be devoted to the manufacture of the same general types of tubes for use in radio broadcasting and other forms of communications, in electronic power and control applications in commerce and industry, as well as in television.
"We expect the market for kinescope picture tubes will eventually exceed our wartime production of all types of cathoderay tubes", Mr. Teegarden said. "We anticipate a demand for large power tubes, both for high-frequency heating in industry and for use in the communications field, including television, which will likewise exceed the wartime peak.
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