Chapter Two: 1970-1972 Production...
At the end of 1973 the Elec-trak operation had almost 300 employees. The plant had grown from 40,000 square feet to close to 200,000 square feet of production office and warehouse in three different buildings in the Scotia industrial park. With few exceptions such as the mower deck, and the tractor deck, all fabrication work was done in house. Those exceptions were due to the fact they did not have large enough presses to make those items. The drive motors were made by the G.E. plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Even the circuit boards and wiring harnesses were built in-house.
Building the first E15 (Original photo)
Building the first E15 (Original photo)
Start-up team that designed and built the Elec-Traks in early 1970 (Original photo)
OPEO Manufacturing Manager Pat Palmisano (Original photo)
Setting up the Elec-Trak plant (Original photo)
Elec-Trak Plant Documents:
- 06/30/1971 O.P.E.O. MATERIAL HANDLING WORK BOOK 23.62MB
- E15 PERFORMANCE CURVES- G.E. ENGINEERING 2.70MB
Elec-Trak Product Patents:
- 11/16/1971 MOWER APPARATUS 196KB
- 03/14/1972 CONTROL CIRCUITS FOR AN ELECTRIC TRACTOR 5.55MB
- 03/14/1972 CONSTRUCTION FOR A TRACTOR 3.34MB
- 02/13/1973 CONTROL ARR. FOR ELEC. PROPELLED TRACTION VEHICLE 344KB
- 03/06/1973 CAM ACTUATED SWITCHING ASSEMBLY 4.51MB
- 01/29/1974 IMPACT ABSORBER FOR ROTARY MOWER BLADE 3.01MB
- 06/25/1974 ROTARY LAWN MOWER DISCHARGE CHUTE SAFETY DEFLECTOR 2.55MB
- 08/13/1974 TRACTOR DESIGN 48kB
Elec-Trak Garden Tractor News:
This was an internal newsletter produced at the G.E. Elec-Trak plant in Schenectady, N.Y. As you can see, many of the issues of "Elec-Trak Garden Tractor News" are missing from this list. If you have any of the issues missing here please me.
- 70-07 October 02, 1970 (Original) 920KB
- 70-09 October 16, 1970 (Original) 1.02MB
- 70-12 November 13, 1970 (Original) 920KB
- 70-16 December 16, 1970 (Original) 1.05MB
- 71-03 January 22, 1971 (Original) 964KB
- 71-04 January 29, 1971 (Original) 1.35MB
- 71-06 February 05, 1971 (Original) 780KB
- 71-08 February 19, 1971 (Original) 1.01MB
- 71-09 February 26, 1971 (Original) 952KB
- 71-12 March 26, 1971 (Original) 864KB
- 71-13 April 02, 1971 (Original) 904KB
- 71-14 April 09, 1971 (Original) 1.37MB
- 71-15 April 23, 1971 (Original) 999KB
- 71-30 September 17, 1971 (Original) 892KB
- 71-36 October 29, 1971 (Original) 992KB
- 72-01 January 10, 1972 (Original) 960KB
- 72-02 January 14, 1972 (Original) 848KB
- 72-08 March 24, 1972 (Original) 776KB
- 72-10 April 07, 1972 (Original) 932KB
- 72-11 April 14, 1972 (Original) 904KB
- 72-14 May 11, 1972 (Original) 2.60MB
- 72-16 May 22, 1972 (Original) 984KB
- 72-17 June 02, 1972 (Original) 1.09MB
- 72-32 October 13, 1972 (Original) 2.53MB
- 72-35 November 10, 1972 (Original) 1.10MB
- 72-36 December 01, 1972 (Original) 1.01MB
- 73-01 January 5, 1973 (Scanned only) 1.20MB
- 73-02 January 19, 1973 (Original) 904KB
- 73-06 March 23, 1973 (Original) 868KB
- 73-09 April 20, 1973 (Original) 999KB
- 73-20 August 17, 1973 (Original) 948KB
- 73-23 September 21, 1973 (Original) 1.05MB
- 73-25 October 12, 1973 (Original) 999KB
- 73-26 October 19, 1973 (Original) 1.02MB
- 73-30 November 30, 1973 (Original) 884KB
- 74-01 January 04, 1974 (Original) 872KB
- 74-02 January 18, 1974 (Original) 1.05MB
- 74-04 February 01, 1974 (Original) 968KB
- 74-05 February 08, 1974 (Original) 1.04MB
- 74-05 February 22, 1974 (Original) 1.03MB
- 74-06 March 01, 1974 (Original) 998KB
- 74-08 March 15, 1974 (Original) 1.02MB
- 74-16 June 21, 1974 (Scanned only) 561KB
