Here are your auto factoids for the week of Aug 26.
Aug 27, 1902 the Cadillac company was founded and on the same day in 1877 Charles Rolls was born in London, England.
1902 Caddy The Runabout
Rolls Royce 1904
On the 29th in 1898 Goodyear was incorporated and on the same day Charles Kettering was born in Dayton, Ohio…who? Well so you don’t have to GOOGLE it ….. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research at General Motors from 1920 to 1947. Among his most widely used automotive inventions were the electrical starting motor and leaded gasoline.
English: Charles F. Kettering, pictured with his first electric starter. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
And that finishes up the month of August.
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I was in Warren, Ohio at Delphi Packard Electric and Kokomo, Indiana at Delphi’s Design Center back in June this year on business. They have beautiful displays of Delco’s radios and other auto electronics in bot facilities from the early 1920s to date.
It was interesting to read that Buick had one of the first 8 Track integrated AM FM radios and Oldsmobile had the first ‘reverb’ systems.
There is actually a Dayton, Ohio Suburn called Kettering.
Most Delphi (formerlly DELCO) employees did not know that DELCO stood for:
Dayton
Engineering
Laboratory
Company
The last Dayton DELCO plant was a Fridigaire plant just outside Kettering. My neighbor in Cincinnati worked there in the 1980s. He had a good deal going with GM. He got a free 2 year lease on a Cadaillic with a predetermined buy out. If the buy out was below Blue Book wholesale (and it was always $3,000 to $4,000 below), he bought the car and re-sold it. He did this so mucho ver the years that neighbors in the area started to call him and ask when the next lightly used Caddy would be available. Most of the time he got loaded, triple white, Fleetwoood Broughams that re-sold at a nice profit.
Delphi is strong today. The company did not get a Bail Out, but re-organized. Delphi primarily designed for GM, but also has Honda, and even Hyundai as customers for some of its ABS and AirBag systems, etc.