Back In January 2023 I wrote a post about the War Production Board’s November 1944 Mailing List that I’d found on Google Books.
https://northbaylines.blogspot.com/2023/01/follow-money-war-production-board.html
With a little help from the OCR function in Acrobat, I
converted the list into text, then imported it into Excel. 9830 entries later, it’s usable and
sortable/filterable with the original information. I’ve started an enhancement to Geo-locate the
industries and show the railroad(s) serving them, but have not gotten very
far. But, given the interest on the
STMFC about the OPSIG industry list database, I thought I’d share what I had so
far. You can download the XLSX file at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17r1GfgvR6bmxbGfcitUcCfCtWqaK-DTn/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108993762274583742730&rtpof=true&sd=true
Cross references are in red, consolidated mailing addresses
in green. The number in the Industry
1939 column corresponds to the Industry Classifications from the 1939 Census of
Manufacturers. I have also digitized
that document and included tabs sorted both numerically and alphabetically for
the convenience of the user.
This is a manufacturing list, so it doesn’t include
refineries, chemical plants, logging or mining.
But it does cover a vast gamut of stuff that was fabricated from small
arms to airplanes to ships to lanterns.
If you want refinery info, my post https://northbaylines.blogspot.com/2022/08/us-refineries-in-40s.html
has a link to a spreadsheet with all of the US domestic refineries in 1941 and
1947.
I hope you find this information useful in your modelling
efforts.
John Barry
Lovettsville, VA
14 November 2024
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