We used to make things in this country. #74: Audio Tool & Engineering Ltd., Toronto Ontario
Two fans made by Audio Tool and Engineering Limited of Toronto, Ontario. Can't figure out what "audio" had to do with manufacturing fans. Nothing about them on the web--they just up and vanished.
They used to manufacture OEM turntables in the 1950s, included in devices of many Canadian manufacturers: - Westinghouse (as said above) - Canadian General Electric (e.g. C411) - Decca (e.g. DP63) - Electrohome
According to the Artefacts Canada database, Audio Tool and Eng. make a model of fan labeled as the "Seabreeze" which leads me to deduce that Audio tool later reincorporated as Seabreeze Manufacturing Ltd, then yet again to Seabreeze Electric Corp.
According to Company listing website Seabreeze made the following products:
. fractional horsepower A/C motors, both two and four pole; . portable electric fans and fan heaters; . record players, hi-fi equipment, including reel-to-reel and cassette tape recorders, automatic record changers and manufacturing for OEM accounts such as RCA, GE and Westinghouse .The complete Motorola consumer product line (from television to automobile radios) under Canadian distribution and manufacturing license, until they sold the division to Panasonic. Remember this was the during the era of branch plants and high import tariffs, not counting tarrifs in 2025
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The turntable in our 1950 Westinghouse radio/phonograph was made by Audio Tool & Eng Ltd.
They used to manufacture OEM turntables in the 1950s, included in devices of many Canadian manufacturers:
- Westinghouse (as said above)
- Canadian General Electric (e.g. C411)
- Decca (e.g. DP63)
- Electrohome
etc.
Thank you for the additional information!
I have one of these fans does anybody buy them
Stinky
According to the Artefacts Canada database, Audio Tool and Eng. make a model of fan labeled as the "Seabreeze" which leads me to deduce that Audio tool later reincorporated as Seabreeze Manufacturing Ltd, then yet again to Seabreeze Electric Corp.
According to Company listing website Seabreeze made the following products:
. fractional horsepower A/C motors, both two and four pole;
. portable electric fans and fan heaters;
. record players, hi-fi equipment, including reel-to-reel and
cassette tape recorders, automatic record changers and
manufacturing for OEM accounts such as RCA, GE and
Westinghouse .The complete Motorola consumer product line (from television to automobile radios) under Canadian distribution and manufacturing license, until they sold the division to Panasonic. Remember this was the during the era of branch plants and high import tariffs, not counting tarrifs in 2025
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