Delco Electronics Corp
- Also Known As: Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company
American
Includes
Notable Position | Person | From | To |
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Founder | Charles F Kettering | 1909 | |
Founder | Col Edward A Deeds | 1909 |
Notable Position | Person | From | To |
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Founder | Charles F Kettering | 1909 | |
Founder | Col Edward A Deeds | 1909 |
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
1909/07/00 | Through a series of meetings, Edward Deeds and Charles Kettering prove the value of their automobile ignition system to Henry Leland, the head of Cadillac. | Genesis | Deeds' Barn | Kettering | |||
1909/07/22 | After frantic negotiations, Edward Deeds arranges a loan of $150,000 to capitalize the venture, evenly splitting the liability between himself and Charles Kettering, and formally incorporates Delco. | Begun | |||||
1910/00/00 | Delco, electrical engineers, is first listed in the Dayton City Directory, located in room 706 of the United Brethren Building, northeast corner 4th and Main Streets. | Work | United Brethren Publishing House | Dayton, OH | |||
1910/10/00 | Still working out of Deeds' barn at 319 Central Avenue, in the fall of 1910, Charles Kettering recruits seven former NCR employees to work with him. Known as the 'Barn Gang', the group forms the beginning of the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company. | History | Deeds' Barn | Kettering | Invention of the Starter Motor | ||
1911/11/00 | Again impressed, Henry Leland of Cadillac orders 12,000 self-starters from Delco Electronics Corp. | History | Deeds' Barn | Kettering | Invention of the Starter Motor | ||
1912/00/00 | After receiving an order from Cadillac, Delco rents a floor of the Beaver Power Building at 4th and St Clair and hires a dozen workers to build self-starters. Built in 1910, the structure will be later known as the St Clair lofts apartments. | Office | Fire Blocks Historic District | Dayton, OH | |||
1913/00/00 | By early 1913, Delco has sold a total of 35,000 starting, lighting and ignition systems. The company's employ 1,500 workers operate out of the basement and two floors of a rented factory building on East First Street. | Office | Delco Building | Dayton, OH | |||
1915/00/00 | Delco erects their second plant 340 E 1st Street in Dayton, later known as the Mendelson Building. | Office | Fire Blocks Historic District | Dayton, OH | |||
1916/05/11 | Deeds and Kettering sell Delco to the United Motors Company. Both Deeds and Kettering will stay at their respective positions with Delco after the sale. | End | Delco Building | Dayton, OH | |||
1927/00/00 | Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company has ceased to exist. | End | Delco Building | Dayton, OH |
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