Word: delco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happened by, stopped to help, and was cranking furiously away when the motor kicked. The backlashing crank broke his jaw; he later died of complications from the injury. Kettering, an engineering graduate from Ohio State University ('04), by then set up in his own Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. (DELCO), heard of the accident, decided that he could do something to prevent others like...
Portable Car Radio. Oldsmobile announced a new Delco all-transistor radio for its 1958 cars, which can be removed from the dashboard and played on dry cells. The 3-lb. "TransPortable" is powered by the car's electrical system when set in the dashboard...
...While most of his time is spent with the auto divisions, Curtice also runs Frigidaire, the diesel divisions (G.M. is the biggest U.S. maker of diesel locomotives) and the rest of G.M.'s 4O-odd divisions. Among them: Delco radios, motors, etc.; Allison engines; AC Spark Plug...
...manager of the G.M.C. Truck & Coach Division, went back to a new and bigger vice president's job, and as a director to boot. In addition to bossing G.M.C. Truck & Coach, Kyes will head up G.M.'s Dayton operations (engines, accessories, etc.) and household appliances (Frigidaire and Delco...
...week stenographer, and they married in September 1912. At 28, he was hired away from Westinghouse by Remy Electric Co., a General Motors subsidiary, to become chief engineer and sales manager of its auto division. Wilson got major credit for an engineering-design program which put Remy (later Delco-Remy) back on its financial feet. In 1928 he was brought to Detroit as G.M.'s youngest (38) vice president. In 1941, after the late William Knudsen went to Washington as the nation's defense-production expediter, Wilson became, at 50, president of General Motors...