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History: H & S Electric
Shop (History of Abbotsford) Poster: Marla Zwakman Email:
dzwakman@msn.com Surnames: Wing, Heindl,
Speck, Goessl ----Source: Abbotsford
Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 10/14/1954 History of Abbotsford – H
& S Electric Shop By F. B. Wing Urban Heindl and Howard
Speck, two young men who were born and raised in this community, are the owners
and operators of the H & S Electric Shop. Both worked for the Hutt Electric
Company, prior to going into business for themselves six years ago. Their shop is well
equipped with modern machinery, including a lathe, brushes, motor starting
switches, condensers, ball bearings, sleeve bearings, acetelyn and electric
welders, drill press, core winding machine and shaper and a furnace. All this
equipment is housed in what was once known as the cheese storage warehouse, a
building about 30 x 60 feet situated on Main Street just north of the
Marathon-Clark Cooperative Dairy Association. Besides doing repair work
and rewinding all makes of electric motors, they carry in stock a large line of
new and used motors and are in a position to handle jobs both large and small. When the work on the
motors is finished, they are dipped in varnish and baked. Ted Goessl, their repair man, is 28 years old and the son of Irving Goessl, who lives on his farm west of Dorchester. Ted has chosen this line of work as he is very much interested *** Note: The rest of the article was cut off and was not available at the time of transcription. |
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