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I'm a former furniture retailer now an HO modeler.I spent every April and October in the south at factories in Greensboro, High Point, Morganton, Hickory, Lenoir, Statesville areas of NO CAROLINA. All of these places have Chambers of Commerce and you can get info from them. Also try a publication called "Home Furnishings Daily" by Fairchild Publishing Co. (NYC, I believe). You may get help from major mfgrs., particularly Broyhill, Bassett,Thomasville, Drexel/Heritage, etc. which are probably listed on the internet. Most wood furniture plants were long low brick buildings with saw tooth roofs and plenty of industrial sash windows. Furniture is made on production lines just as autos are. Use plenty of cyclone separators for sawdust collection, vents for solvent exhaust from the spray booths, dry kilns for preparing the wood and a big incinerator for burning the scrap and bark. Inventories are big so provide plenty of warehouse (high ceilings - can be corrugated metal bldgs.) PLUS indoor and outdoor railspurs. <br />You are doing the right era for southern furniture mfg'ing. because now it is rapidly being moved to China for "economical" reasons and containerized back to the USA.The Walthers furniture factory kit is atypical of the south because it is MULTI-STORY, something not found when land is cheap in the Piedmont sections of NC/VA area. There was also a magazine called "Furniture World" published in NYC(?) that may have some great archival photos to give you. Hope I have helped you and I think you are modelling an interesting section.
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