Record #:

10925

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

Abstract:

Superior Continental Corporation opened in Hickory in 1954 as the manufacturing and supply arm of Continental Telephone Corporation, the country's third largest independent phone company. Other plants have been built at Catawba and Rocky Mount, as well as in Iowa and Texas. The company is a major producer of telecommunication equipment and supplies.

Source:

We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 27 Issue 11, Nov 1969, p117-118, 219, il

Subject(s):

Telecommunication equipment industry--Hickory; Superior Continental Corp. (Hickory)