After being diagnosed with inoperable cancer in 1960, Samuel Baskin sold his company to 3M for $17 million. Foreign competition, technology changes, and shifts in public tastes impacted Revere's bottom line. It branched into tool manufacturing in the mid-1950s. Revere started manufacturing tape recorders in the early 1950s. Unlike the GoldE Manufacturing company (which was also in Chicago) there is a bit more information available online about on this company (although I think all the different sites. History This projector was manufactured by the Revere Camera Company, which was founded in 1939 in Chicago. The Revere brand became synonymous with budget film cameras and projectors. This is the Revere Model 80 Standard 8mm Film Projector. It was the second-largest manufacturer of small movie cameras. When the subsidiary merged into Excel Auto Radiator, the new company became the Revere Copper Company.īy the early 1950s, Revere employed over 1,500 workers at its two Chicago plants (320 E. Production of the cameras and movie projects was run through a subsidiary managed by Briskin’s son. Alschuler, was located at 320 East 21st Street.Įxcel Auto Radiator Company began making budget 8mm move cameras and the Revere 85 8mm projector in 1939.
The manufacturing facility, designed by Alfred S. Headquartered in Chicago, it made car radiators and some inexpensive household products. Samuel Briskin, a Ukrainian immigrant, found the Excel Auto Radiator Company in 1920.
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