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Re: 2006 - 45 Years Of Lego in the USA
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:40:23 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
> Maybe I ought to rephrase that..... the Samsonite fiasco caused TLG to start
> from scratch in building new Lego operations and production in Enfield
> Connecticut.
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> It is also interesting to note that when the Samsonite of Canada license expired
> in 1986, there was none of this turmoil (except perhaps for those Canadian
> Samsonite Lego workers who were out of a job when Lego operations moved to
> Enfield). Ditto in 1993 when Courtauld's Lego license expired in Britain,
> Australia, and the rest of the British Commonwealth.
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> Since 1993, Lego operations worldwide have been under TLG control.
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> Gary Istok
I had a tour of the plant in Stratford in '85-86ish...
I don't think too many people were displaced--right beside the machine that
pumped out LEGO was the machine that pumped out luggage. They showed me the
LEGO molds and those were stored with the luggage molds.
Probably just produced luggage after '86.
I think the plant is still there (though I could be wrong about that)...
Dave K
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| (...) Dave, Gary: About the Samsonite Plants: Samsonite's first plant was built around 1910 in Denver CO. There they produced trunks, and later, Samsonite Luggage. When the railroad companies effectively doubled their freight charges in the 1920's (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-06, to lugnet.general)
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| Maybe I ought to rephrase that..... the Samsonite fiasco caused TLG to start from scratch in building new Lego operations and production in Enfield Connecticut. It is also interesting to note that when the Samsonite of Canada license expired in (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.general)
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