Things manufactured in Dallas

Most of us know that various products from hats, beer, and automobiles were once manufactured in Dallas. Dallas is still on the map for semiconductors. What else was (is) manufactured here that the average Dallasite is unaware of?

Dixiecups ( OC ) , Tupperwear ( on Westmorland in OC ), Oil Well Equipment (Security Engineering in OC ) , Roofing (GAF and operated under other names, Singleton Blvd in West Dallas ) , Procter & Gamble (Crisco, Tide, Ivory Soap, you name it - on Lamar Street ) , Studebaker Wagons ( Pacific Ave - downtown Dallas ) , Gardner Denver ( Air Compressors ) , Otis Engineering ( oil field equipment ) , several brick plants



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/26/2011 07:01AM by Wayne Pritchett.

I you're willing to talk the Greater Dallas/Mid-cities area, one should not forget ------- airplanes.

Yep, has been a lot of Aircraft built in the DFW area down thru the years including the T-6 Texan, P-51 Mustang, F-7U Cutlass, A-7 Corsair II, F-8 Crusader, XF-42, B-24 Liberator, B-32 Dominator, B-36, F-111, F-16 and F-35 and I am sure I left a few out, I know Vought builds parts of several different aircraft still........Bill Strouse

I have to admit that you left out my favorite--B-58 Hustler. Drove from Abilene to Convair plant one Saturday in the late 50s/early 60s to see the plane up-close at an open house. It had a LOT of short-comings, but going fast and looking cool were not among them.

Apparently Vought Aircraft Industries has been sold again.

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I knew that moms survivors benefit (dad worked there nearly 30 years) had change names, but didn't know why.
Never heard of Triumph until now. The wife and I were driving back from Grand Prairie on Jefferson yesterday and there is a "for sale by GAO" sign on the side of the westernmost building. I guess they mean just the building and not the whole site.
Also, Vought no longer appears on the side of the building despite what the link above says.
Paul

Yep, I did forget the B-58, an aircraft way, way ahead of its time....think it may still hold some speed records, a very good preserved example is at the AF Museum at Wright Patterson AFB at Dayton.....one of the record holders. Any other I left out???????? Bill Strouse

Dennis H Wrote:
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> Most of us know that various products from hats,
> beer, and automobiles were once manufactured in
> Dallas. Dallas is still on the map for
> semiconductors. What else was (is) manufactured
> here that the average Dallasite is unaware of?


Van Camps (canned goods - like Pork and Beans ), FritoLay ( salty snacks etc.), carpet tackboard (OC-1970s), Military Uniforms (Burks Mfg - downtown Dallas), Tents and Canopys (EH Teasley on Corinth)

The old Ford Plant on Grand Ave. produced many Ford Vehicles, Pollock Paper and other paper companys use to produce various paper products, the old Oak Cliff Box Co. made boxes, P&G produced Soap Products for many years, Mrs Bairds made lots of Bread for a long time and Haggar made many a pair of pants out there by Love Field, am sure there are many more but that is what I can think of right now.....Bill Strouse........

Come on Guys. This is Dallas and you have forgotten Dr. Pepper?

Bette Nesmith (Michael from the Monkee's Mom) Graham
invented and made correction fluid (Liquid Paper) in her kitchen

purex bleach was made in north dallas out on storey road, before, going out of business shutting down in the seventies i think

Bedding (matresses and box springs) as well as some furniture by Simmons. The had a factory just off Hines Blvd in the early 50's. I worked there a few months when I was discharged from Uncle Sam's custody (Army) in 1952. Also, during WWII there was a facility in Dallas, near Fair Park, that made and repaired parachutes. Don't remember the name but my mom worked a night shift there in 1943/44.

My father owned Machine Product Company located on Harry Hines across from Parkland hospital. He manufactured gears and heavy machinery.
He made all the gears for the machines, contracted by Chance Vought, that produce the bombs for the Vietnam war. Vought's A-7 Corsair II, a carrier-borne close air support and attack plane in 1965, an aircraft which would become heavily engaged in a variety of close support and strike missions during the Vietnam War,

Bill Strouse pretty well covered the aircraft built in the area but I think it worth mentioning that major sub asemblies of the f-102 and F-106 fighter planes were built at Convair - Fort Worth located at Carswell although final assembly was accomplished in San Diego IIRC.

And there was a company located a I believe in North Dallas - north of NW Hiway - that manufactured a concentrate for an non-carbonated orange flavored bevarage . It was sold in gallon jugs. They may have had a similar grape flavored product also, no longer sure. I don't recall the name of the drink but the family involved was named Dial and they may have lived in Park Cities at one time.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/05/2012 01:06AM by vft_refectory.

To the list of aircraft made in the Dallas area can be added the late versions of Vought's 'bent wing bird' (F4U and AU) and the Luscombe Silvaire.

Chance Vought moved to Dallas in 1949 (took over the old North American plant that built the P-51C's and D's during the War), pretty sure the first aircraft they built here was the F7U Cutlass, a beautiful airplane but not worth a flip.....way underpowered.........Bill Strouse

Actually production of the F4U family continued after the firm's move to the Dallas area, winding up in, it seems, 1952.

The last Corsair rolled off the production line in Jan. 1953....went to the French.....Bill Strouse

It came to me that no one has mentioned the Temco Model 51 or TT-1 or Pinto jet trainer. Only a few were built and eventually the company was absorbed by L-T-V.

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