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EPALLIS 
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Posted: 22 May 2014 at 9:25pm |
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Found a pin at an estate sale the other day that said, "Allis-Chalmers York Works. I know that it refers to York PA. Anybody know what kind of Allis-Chalmers activity that took place there?
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DaveNWWI_OAN
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Posted: 22 May 2014 at 9:42pm |
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Hydraulic turbines and related components.
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 22 May 2014 at 9:42pm |
Allis-Chalmers York Works Heavy machinery. Turbines, head gates, hoists, axial flow pumps, etc.
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Fred in Pa
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Posted: 23 May 2014 at 6:31am |
Here is a sign that was hanging in the plant . NO IT IS NOT FORSALE I am 12 miles west of the plant . 
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Jim Lindemood
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Posted: 23 May 2014 at 6:35am |
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Interesting -- pretty cool sign ya got there Fred.
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Fred in Pa
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Posted: 23 May 2014 at 6:36am |
Also got this sign ( the big blue one )out of the plant only 3 years ago .It was in a old storage room covered up . Did sale it could not stand it up right in my showroom . If anyone would be wanting this sign it is being sold in Ia. at the big AC auction that Polk is having .I sold the sign for $5000.oo and made good money on it ,can't wait to see want it brings out at auction . 
Edited by Fred in Pa - 23 May 2014 at 6:36am
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Chuckd
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Posted: 01 Aug 2017 at 7:25pm |
There were two plant in York. The one that was downtown made large Valves and some components for Nuclear Submarines. The one that was on the west edge of town made hydro turbines. Some of the ones that were made there are located at several large hydroplants in the western USA. The Grand Coulee Dam has some, there are three plants on the Snake River in Washington and Oregon, and so on. I worked there for a few years till the Hydro Turbine Division closed.
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LeonR2013
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Posted: 01 Aug 2017 at 7:45pm |
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It's a shame those things can't be built here.
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