Metric & Multistandard Marks 50th Anniversary
FEATURE
Rosemary Hacaj and Ivo Peske
As three emigrants from Czechoslovakia sailed toward the Statute of Liberty in New York Harbor in 1961, they didn’t know what they’d do in their new country. But they shook hands on a pledge of “Let’s do it together.”
The result is Metric & Multistandard Components Corp.
In the late 1940s, Alois Hacaj, Milan Peske and Joseph Voves met in Ethiopia. Hacaj and Peske were sent by the Czechoslovakian government to develop a showcase metal factory.
Voves had escaped Czechoslovakia and was operating the restaurant in the hotel where he met Hacaj and Peske.
Though “Ammunition” was in the factory name, the new plant produced everything from basketball hoops to bridges.
Foreign dignitaries from ambassadors to the Queen of Greece visited the factory.
In those “Iron Curtain” days Hacaj and Peskes began plotting how to avoid being returned to Czechoslovakia.
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