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Ken-Rad Tube Decedent Shuts Down Operations

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The GE Motor Plant of Owensboro, Kentucky shut down yesterday. The plant, known as Building 10, traces its roots to Ken-Rad, short for Kentucky Radio Tube Manufacturing Company when Roy Burlew purchased Kentucky Electric, a motor manufacturing plant. Ken-Rad was purchased by GE in 1945. The plant produced receiver tubes until 1977 when the focus returned to motors. The original Ken-Rad plant migrated technology to microwave and vidicon tubes. I have read that Ken-Rad produced the tube used in the WLW 500kw amplifier. A neat feature of the plant was a giant replica of a tube. When the plant returned to motors, the tube aspect of the replica was made more generic.

The last vestige of former Ken-Rad operates at the original plant as M.P.D, focusing on microwave technology.
 
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