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Originally Posted by Kaye-Halbert TV
'Fraid that was Mexican labour... Wish it was American. The last 100% American Zenith was 1972, with a total transition to the Mexican assembly plants by the late 70s.
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Sorry, but while you're right that there was a long transition period to Mexican (and other foreign) assembly plants, as well as for parts sourced overseas, Zenith still made/assembled TVs in the USA until (I think) March or so of 1992 when they closed their Springfield, MO plant. At that point, I think they were only making consoles and larger high-end table models in that factory; the smaller sets had all been long transitioned to Mexico (and elsewhere) over the years.
I've got a "made in USA" Zenith 27" Advanced System 3 in my living room right now as a matter of fact; it's a 1992 model labeled as being made in October 1991 in Springfield Missouri. Of course, the vast majority of the parts
inside the set were imported, but it technically was made by American labor, I suppose you could say.
By the way, does anyone know
exactly when Zenith closed the Springfield factory (or, more specifically, when they stopped producing TV sets in it)? I suppose the fact that it was located just off another now-extinct American fixture (US highway 66) should have seemed oddly foreboding...
