Norge-Heat Division oil furnace burner unit, testing, Norge-Heat Division, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Black-and-white photograph of an oil furnace at Norge-Heat Division of Borg-Warner Corporation in Kalamazoo, Michigan. View shows a man (mostly out of view) kneeling beside a oil furnace and holding a cone-shaped glass under what appears to be an oil line. The man is looking down at his wrist watch. The photograph was taken for Norge-Heat, a division of Borg-Warner Coporation. According to two Kalamazoo Gazette articles, dated March 7, 1946 and August 5, 1952, the Norge-Heat division of Borg-Warner Corporation was established at Ingersoll Steel and Disc Plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan in March 1946. The new engineering department was an experimental program and produced domestic heating units and, later, expanded to produce plumbing and air conditioning activities.