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A current running through Peterborough: Looking back at GE's ...

Photo Credit: Trent Valley Archives, Fonds 327  Source: The Peterborough Examiner

By: Elwood Jones

“We bring good things to life” was the slogan of General Electric for some 25 years beginning in 1979. From its earliest days, CGE was in the business of producing electricity but its Peterborough plant was a manufacturing place, known locally as the Electric Works. All Peterborough factories were works: the lock works, cereal works, porcelain works, bridge works. In Peterborough, the slogan for CGE could have been “We bring life to good things.”

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