Company sends generators to NJ

ESSEX, Conn. (WTNH) -- Bell Power Systems makes customized diesel generators and has decided to send generators to its New Jersey distributors at cost.

"Trying to place the generation at the right height," Doug Ewing, in production, said.

"Forego any profit and look what we could do to supply for those poor souls down in New Jersey and New York. They just took a terrible beating,"Mike McNeil, or Bell Power Systems, said.

McNeil said they want to do their part to help out those who have already lost so much. They'll also eat the cost of constructing the custom-made machines.

Some customers wants the exhaust low mounted, some of them want them with enclosures the whole unit covered up.

Each one is made to order and is designed and built at the Essex plant.

"This is just the base. That's the assembled unit that has to go out to paint," Ewing said.

"This is a time when normally businesses are going to exploit the shortages. Things like food and fuel and power supply, and Bell Power is doing exactly the opposite," Democrat Rep. Joe Courtney said.

Once these generators are complete, they're shipped out to their distributors and McNeil can only hope the distributors do the same forego any profits so the people who need these can get a break.

"We're all US citizens and so we want to do what we can do to help out and so that's our contribution," McNeil said.

News 8's Tina Detelj said, "hopefully they'll do the same."

"We hope we do. We can't...again they're all independent businessmen. Some of them will some of them won't," McNeil said.

Already 20 have been sent to the Garden State to help folks power through this disaster and twenty will be on their way here.