I see a reference on the Web to a building at 1050 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo built by Curtiss and later occupied by Considated, that may be the building Bell started in after Consolidated went to San Diego. The Wheatfield plant opened in 1940. > [Original Message] > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 3/29/2007 11:20:20 PM > Subject: [NYNIAGAR] HART and Bell Aircraft > > From: "Sherry" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:52 AM > Subject: [NYNIAGAR] HART in Lockport/Buffalo, Ny area? > >I am literally searching for a needle in a haystack. I am looking for a > >man with the last name of HART who would have worked at the Bell Aircraft > >Plant in Buffalo, NY in the 1942-1943 time frame. First name may have been > >WIlliam, but this is not confirmed. I believe he MIGHThave been born in > >the 1900-1916 time frame, but I have so little to go on I can't be sure. > > > > Are there any Hart families on the 1930 census from this area? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > My best, > > Sherry Jesberger > > > Sherry, > I just happened to do a little research on Bell Aircraft. > Lawrence Bell took over a factory in Buffalo where planes were made, called > Consolidated, and named it Bell Aircraft, in 1935. Unfortunately I can't > remember where it was in Buffalo, I was concentrating on the Wheatfield plant, > built starting in 1940. > Don't know when the Buffalo plant discontinued, but the company was heavily > into defense contracts during WWII, then had to scramble for contracts after > the war. I remember a statement regarding the Niagara Frontier Division > (Buffalo and Wheatfield), to the effect that 59% of the workforce during the war > were women, so it must have still been open through the war. > ET > > > > ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message