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I worked at Bose on "The Mountain" facility in Framingham MA from 1978 to 1979. I started as an assembler on the 901 driver line. Jobs included assembly of the driver (speaker) components etc. I enjoyed gluing the dust cap on the voice coil over the speaker cone. Looks like a set of bunny ears in black.
They were very employee focused and training was very good.
Bose had several 53 foot trailers on site that were used for testing long term durability of the speakers. I never saw the inside of the trailers but a co-worker told me they had stacks of 901's plugged directly into 120V for days.
Dr. Bose was a very nice man and would have breakfast with us low level employees most every day.
I was there when they just started developing the automotive applications. They had a lottery to have a Bose system installed in employee's vehicles. I won! Unfortunately I owned a 1967 VW bug convertible and that didn't meet the criteria.
Bose were the speakers to have in the day. I bought several pairs of 901's for family and friends. My opinion of them is if you really want it loud, 901's got it done. Maybe not for everyone but still a great speaker.
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