The American Automobile Industry in World War Two
An American Auto Industry Heritage Tribute by David D Jackson

Overview      Lansing Michigan in World War Two   The U.S. Auto Industry at the Normandy Invasion, June 6, 1944    The U.S. Auto Industry and the B-29 Bomber   U.S. Auto Industry Army-Navy "E" Award Winners   The Complete listing of All Army-Navy "E" Award Winners   Sherman Tanks of the American Auto Industry   Tank Destroyers of the American Auto Industry    M26 Pershing Tanks of the American Auto Industry   M36 Tank Destroyers of the American Auto Industry   Serial Numbers for WWII Tanks built by the American Auto Industry   Surviving LCVP Landing Craft    WWII Landing Craft Hull Numbers   Airborne Extra-Light Jeep Photos  The American Auto Industry vs. the German V-1 in WWII   American Auto Industry-Built Anti-Aircraft Guns in WWII   VT Proximity Manufacturers of WWII   World War One Era Motor Vehicles   National Museum of Military Vehicles  
Revisions   Links

 Automobile and Body Manufacturers:  American Bantam Car Company   Briggs Manufacturing Company   Checker Car Company   Chrysler Corporation   Crosley Corporation   Ford Motor Car Company   General Motors Corporation   Graham-Paige Motors Corporation   Hudson
Motor Car Company   Murray Corporation of America   Nash-Kelvinator   Packard Motor Car Company      Studebaker    Willys-Overland Motors

General Motors Divisions:  AC Spark Plug   Aeroproducts   Allison   Brown-Lipe-Chapin   Buick   Cadillac   Chevrolet   Cleveland Diesel   Delco Appliance   Delco Products   Delco Radio   Delco-Remy   Detroit Diesel   Detroit Transmission   Electro-Motive   Fisher Body   Frigidaire   GM Proving Grounds   GM of Canada   GMC   GMI   Guide Lamp   Harrison Radiator   Hyatt Bearings   Inland   Moraine Products   New Departure   Oldsmobile   Packard Electric   Pontiac   Saginaw Malleable Iron   Saginaw Steering Gear   Southern California Division   Rochester Products   Ternstedt Manufacturing Division   United Motors Service   Vauxhall Motors

 Indiana Companies:  Bailey Products Corporation   Chrysler Kokomo Plant   Continental Steel Corporation  Converto Manufacturing    Cummins Engine Company   Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Company   Delta Electric Company   Durham Manufacturing Company   Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation   Haynes Stellite Company   Hercules Body Company   Horton Manufacturing Company   Howe Fire Apparatus   J.D. Adams Company   Kokomo Spring Company   Magnavox  
Muncie Gear Works   Pierce Governor Company   Portland Forge and Foundry   Reliance Manufacturing Company   Republic Aviation Corporation - Indiana Division   Ross Gear and Tool Company   S.F. Bowser & Co.   Sherrill Research Corporation   Tokheim Oil Tank and Pump Company   Warner Gear   Wayne Pump Company   Wayne Works

Commercial Truck and Fire Apparatus Manufacturers:  American LaFrance   Autocar  
Biederman Motors Corporation   Brockway Motor Company   Detroit General   Diamond T   Duplex Truck Company   Federal Motor Truck   Four Wheel Drive Auto Company(FWD)   International Harvester   John Bean   Mack Truck   Marmon-Herrington Company   Michigan Power Shovel Company   Oshkosh Motor Truck Corporation   Pacific Car and Foundry   "Quick-Way" Truck Shovel Company   Reo Motor Car Company  Seagrave Fire Apparatus   Sterling Motor Truck Company    Ward LaFrance Truck Corporation   White Motor Company

Aviation Companies:  Abrams Instrument Corporation   Hughes Aircraft Company   Kellett Aviation Corporation   Laister-Kauffman Aircraft Corporation   Naval Aircraft Factory   P-V Engineering Forum, Inc.    Rudolf Wurlitzer Company-DeKalb Division  Schweizer Aircraft Corporation   Sikorsky Division of United Aircraft Corporation   St. Louis Aircraft Corporation   Timm Aircraft Corporation

Other World War Two Manufacturers: 
Air King Products   Allis-Chalmers   American Car and Foundry   American Locomotive   American Stove Company   Annapolis Yacht Yard  
Andover Motors Company   B.F. Goodrich   Baker War Industries   Baldwin Locomotive Works   Blood Brothers Machine Company   Boyertown Auto Body Works   Briggs & Stratton   Caterpillar   Cheney Bigelow Wire Works   Centrifugal Fusing   Chris-Craft   Clark Equipment Company   Cleaver-Brooks Company   Cleveland Tractor Company   Continental Motors   Cushman Motor Works   Crocker-Wheeler   Dail Steel Products   Detroit Wax Paper Company   Detrola   Engineering & Research Corporation   Farrand Optical Company   Federal Telephone and Radio Corp.   Firestone Tire and Rubber Company   Fruehauf Trailer Company   Fuller Manufacturing   Galvin Manufacturing   Gemmer Manufacturing Company   General Railway Signal Company   Gibson Guitar   Gibson Refrigerator Company   Goodyear   Hall-Scott   Hanson Clutch and Machinery Company   Harley-Davidson   Harris-Seybold-Potter   Herreshoff Manufacturing Company   Higgins Industries    Highway Trailer   Hill Diesel Company   Holland Hitch Company   Homelite Company   Horace E. Dodge Boat and Plane Corporation   Huffman Manufacturing   Indian Motorcycle   Ingersoll Steel and Disk   John Deere   Johnson Automatics Manufacturing Company   Kimberly-Clark   Kohler Company   Kold-Hold Company   Landers, Frary & Clark  Lima Locomotive Works   Lundberg Screw Products   MacKenzie Muffler Company   Massey-Harris   Matthews Company   McCord Radiator & Mfg. Company   Metal Mouldings Corporation   Miller Printing Machinery Company   Morse Instrument Company   Motor Products Corporation   Motor Wheel Corporation   National Cash Resgister Company   Novo Engine Company   O'Keefe & Merritt Company   Olofsson Tool and Die Company   Oneida Ltd   Otis Elevator   Owens Yacht   Pressed Steel Car Company   Queen City Manufacturing Company   R.G. LeTourneau   R.L. Drake Company   St. Clair Rubber Company   Samson United Corporation   Shakespeare Company   Sight Feed Generator Company   Simplex Manufacturing Company   Steel Products Engineering Company   St. Louis Car Company   Twin Disc Company   Victor Adding Machine Company   Vilter Manufacturing Company   Wells-Gardner   W.L. Maxson Corporation   W.W. Boes Company   Westfield Manufacturing Company   York-Hoover Body Company   Youngstown Steel Door Company  
   

VT Proximity Fuze Manufacturers of World War Two

This page added 5-6-2021.


An American Auto Industry in World War Two Special Edition

The VT proximity fuze program was one of three top secret programs the United States had during World War Two.  It was the only one that remained secret throughout the war and was never discovered by the enemy in action nor through spies. The Manhattan Project was penetrated by spies.  The American radar program was only secret in that it had the magnetron tube.  The Germans and  other combatants had radar.  The VT program was so secret that VT fuzes were taken to nearby airports in unmarked trucks to be flown to their final destination.  The aircraft flew directly to military bases, where the fuzes were then attached to shells.  If the fuzes were shipped by train in a boxcar, a U.S. Marine guard would be in the boxcar at all times until the load arrived at its final destination.

The VT fuze consisted of a small radio transmitter and receiver of several miniature electronic tubes, electronic components, and safety devices that were mounted in the nose of anti-aircraft shells.  When fired at an attacking aircraft, the VT shell would detect a change in the received frequency when near an enemy aircraft, and the VT fuze would detonate the shell.  This was far superior to the other method of pre-setting the time-to-detonation of a fuze of an anti-aircraft shell before the shell was loaded in the anti-aircraft gun.  This was problematic at its best in attempting to predict, in the heat of an aerial attack, how long it would take a shell to reach the area of fast moving enemy aircraft.

For the U.S. Navy, the VT fuze is considered to be one of the main reasons it was able to progress so quickly back across the Pacific during World War Two.  It was shown at Pearl Harbor and the sinking of HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales three days later that aircraft were the biggest threat to the American fleet in the Pacific.  With the aid of the VT fuze built by Crosley, Eastman Kodak, McQuay-Norris, RCA, and Sylvania, it is estimated that the U.S. Navy's Pacific campaign advanced months faster than it would have without it.  Many lives were saved, and fewer ships were sunk than if the VT fuze had not been produced by these companies.

The U.S. and British Navies were the first users and the driving force behind the vast scientific, engineering, and manufacturing project.  When first used in combat, they were only used on ships, so any duds would fall into the ocean.  In doing so, duds could not be recovered by enemy troops, reverse engineered, and used against the Navy.  Later, they were used over land in defending Antwerp, Belgium from V-1 attacks.  Another version of the VT fuze was designed for artillery shells for air bursts against enemy ground forces.  This was first used very effectively during the Battle of the Bulge.

Engineering and development of the VT proximity fuzes was carried out at the Applied Physics Laboratories (APL) of John Hopkins University.


This cut-away diagram shows the major components of the VT fuze.


The VT fuze was made from components purchased from U.S. Navy authorized suppliers.  The original cost of a VT fuze in 1942 was $732.  By 1945 it had been reduced to $18.  This is $11,514 and $256 in 2020 dollars, respectively. 


This cut-away of a VT fuze is on display at the National Electronics Museum in Linthicum, MD.   Author's photo.


This cut-away shows how the VT fuze fit in a shell. 

There are several excellent websites that explain the technical issues and the end use of the proximity fuze during World War Two.  However, this is the only one that recognizes the many different companies that contributed to the making of the fuze that was so important to an expedited U.S. Navy's winning of the war in the central Pacific.  Most of the companies listed in the several tables on this page no longer exist.  Over eighty years after the U.S. Navy began working on the concept of a proximity fuze and over 75 years after the end of the war, time, technology advancement, and attrition have reduced the number of companies to just a handful that contributed to this important product.  For a person who grew up after World War Two, many of the names of the companies on this page are recognizable.  Someone considerably younger will have a difficult time recognizing any of the names on this page.

Final Assembly Plants:  Five different companies built the VT fuze.  Crosley was the first into production.  RCA had two plants dedicated to the production of the VT fuze.  The Sylvania plant in Ipswich, MA produced the most VT fuzes of the six locations.  Eastman-Kodak was the only company that continued to build the VT fuzes after World War Two.

Crosley Corporation was the first of the VT fuze producers to cease to exist.  On August 8, 1945, even while the war in the Pacific was still in progress, the owners sold the company to AVCO and Crosley became a division of AVCO.  By 1956 it was gone.  Eastman Kodak still exists, although it had to file for bankruptcy in 2012.  It is a former shadow of itself.  RCA only remains as a brand name, which is owned by a foreign company.  Sylvania is also now a brand name owned by a foreign company.  McQuay-Norris was an auto parts manufacturer that merged with Eaton Yale & Towne in 1969.

McQuay-Norris of St. Louis, MO has the distinction of being the only automobile industry company that contributed significantly to the VT fuze program.  St. Louis was also as far west as any of the suppliers were located.  Most were in NJ, NY, and PA.

Table 1 - VT Fuze Final Assembly Companies and Locations

Company Number Built Number Shipped for Combat Use Number Tested
Crosley - Cincinnati, OH 5,205,913 5,096,552 109,361
Eastman Kodak - Rochester, NY 2,443,914 2,352,304 91,610
McQuay-Norris - St. Louis, MO 2,862,368 2,843,249 19,119
RCA - Bloomington, IN 3,525,843 3,446,829 79,014
RCA - Camden, NJ 2,352,411 2,323,548 28,863
Sylvania - Ipswich, MA 5,683,032 5,622,675 60,357
Total 22,073,481 21,685,157 388,324

Major Suppliers:  Over the course of the VT fuze program in World War Two, many companies from a variety of industries supplied components for the fuze.  Some were used in the initial phase or for a short period of time.  The companies listed in Table 2 below contributed large amounts of critical components for use in the VT fuze.  The complete list of suppliers in Table 10.  Early suppliers are listed in Table 9.

Jefferson Electric and the Hoover Company together supplied 100,000 mercury safety switches per day at peak production.  These were the most difficult of the products made for the fuze.  The Hoover Company is a classic example of a company that produced highly technical products during World War Two that were totally foreign to its normal non-war products.  For Hoover this was vacuum cleaners.  It was one of many American companies that ended up making products during World War Two that were totally different from their peacetime products.

Table 2 - Major VT Fuze Component Companies and Locations

Company Product Comments
Sylvania - Mill Hall, PA Miniature Tubes 10,000 workers were employed at Mill Hall, PA and the other Sylvania plants making the tubes and their components.  At peak production, Sylvania employees were producing a 400,000 per day.  Prior to World War Two, the entire American tube industry was producing 600,000 per day.
Hoover Company, North Canton, OH Safety Devices and Batteries The safety devices were mercury switches.  As of VJ Day, Hoover was producing 5,000 batteries per day.
Jefferson Electric, Bellwood, IL Safety Devices The safety devices were mercury switches.
National Carbon, Winston-Salem, NC Batteries As of VJ Day, National Carbon was producing 73,000 batteries per day.
Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY Batteries As of VJ Day, Hoover was producing 23,000 batteries per day.
International Resister Company, Philadelphia, PA Resistors This was the main supplier of resistors for the VT fuze.

RCA:  RCA had two plants committed to the production of the VT fuze during World War Two.  The Bloomington, IN plant made radios prior to World War Two.  Then it became RCA's main television assembly plant after the war.  The Bloomington plant received the Navy "E" Award after the end of hostilities in recognition of it producing its VT fuzes in a timely manner.  It could not receive the award during the war because of the top secret nature of the VT fuze.  


Photo courtesy of the Monroe County Historical Center added 8-23-2020.


The RCA plant in Bloomington, IN.

Table 3 - Number of VT Proximity Fuzes built by RCA Bloomington, IN during World War Two
Primary Source:  Bureau of Ordnance, U.S. Navy, History of the Bureau of Ordnance, World War II, vol.2, pt. 2.
T designations are U.S. Army, unless otherwise noted for British Army.
Mk designations are U.S. Navy, unless otherwise noted for British Navy.

Fuze Type Number Built Number Shipped for Combat Use Number Tested
T76 - Large Howitzer 472,603 457,870 14,733
T76 - Large Howitzer RB6 123,301 119,862

 

3,439
T80 - Small Howitzer 888,719 874,520 14,199
T80 - Small Howitzer RB6 1,115,890 1,105,001 10,889
T80 - Small Howitzer RB12 118,575 116,712 1,863
T97 - British Small Howitzer RB6 331,303 328,224 3,079
T100 - British  Large Howitzer 39,895 39,000 895
Mk 33 - British Navy 223,515 205,940 17,575
Mk 41 - British Navy 212,042 199,700 12,342
Totals 3,525,843 3,446,829 79,014

 

Table 4 - Number of VT Proximity Fuzes built by RCA Camden, NJ during World War Two
Primary Source:  Bureau of Ordnance, U.S. Navy, History of the Bureau of Ordnance, World War II, vol.2, pt. 2.
T designations are U.S. Army, unless otherwise noted for British Army.
Mk designations are U.S. Navy, unless otherwise noted for British Navy.
Fuze Type Number Built Number Shipped for Combat Use Number Tested
Mk 173 - Five Inch Rocket 11,076 10,000 1,076
T31 - Mark 170 4.5 Inch Rocket 3,071 2,648 423
T76 - Large Howitzer 367,912 363,000 4,912
T76 - Large Howitzer RB6 829,293 821,088 8,205
T76 - Large Howitzer RB12 532 0 532
T80 - Small Howitzer 375,139 370,404 4,735
T80 - Small Howitzer RB6 655,644 648,948 6,696
T100 - British  Large Howitzer 42,663 41,460 1,203
T100 - British  Large Howitzer RB6 67,081 66,000 1,081
Totals 2,352,411 2,323,548 28,863

Sylvania:  Sylvania was a key company to the VT fuze program with twenty-three plants.  Fifteen were dedicated to the production of components and the final assembly of the VT fuze.  The company was supplying 400,000tubes per day at peak production.


The miniature tubes were held in place by wax, to protect them from the intense g-forces when being fired from an anti-aircraft gun.  The wax also held them in place from the large rotational g-forces of the shell.  Sylvania produced over 100 million tubes for the VT program. 

Below are three Sylvania post-war documents detailing the VT fuze and the miniature tubes.

Table 5 - Number of VT Proximity Fuzes built by Sylvania, Ipswich, MA during World War Two
Primary Source:  Bureau of Ordnance, U.S. Navy, History of the Bureau of Ordnance, World War II, vol.2, pt. 2.
T designations are U.S. Army, unless otherwise noted for British Army.
Mk designations are U.S. Navy, unless otherwise noted for British Navy.
Fuze Type Number Built Number Shipped for Combat Use Number Tested
T73 - 75mm AC 1,000 1,000 0
T74 - 90mm AA 525,122 517,472 7,650
T80 - Small Howitzer 1,853,579 1,838,018 15,561
T80 - Small Howitzer RB6 1,003,984 998,535 5,449
T97 - British Small Howitzer 36,296 36,000 296
T97 - British Small Howitzer RB6 236,746 235,515 1,231
T152 - 90mm AA Short 227,989 224,900 3,089
Mk 32 - 5"/38 686,347 672,609 13,738
Mk 40 - 5"/38 139,184 138,000 1,184
Mk 53 - 5"/38 400,175 395,503 4,672
Mk 58 - 3"/50 572,610 565,123 7,487
Total 5,683,032 5,622,675 60,357

Crosley Corporation:  For a more comprehensive look at the Crosley Corporation's participation in the VT fuze program and its other World War Two products, please visit my Crosley page listed at the top of this page.


The Mk 32 was the first VT fuze used in the Navy's 5"/38 dual purpose gun.  It was 12 inches long, 3.3 inches in diameter at its widest point, and weighed 6.81 lbs.  It would detonate within fifty feet of a target.  When tested at an over-water firing range, it would detonate 130 feet above the water.  Note the number of modifications the Mk 32 had over its lifetime and the change in the shape of the antenna cap.  It was a Crosley-built Mk 32 that shot down the drones in navy testing, and a Crosley Mk 32 was the first VT fuze to shoot down a Japanese aircraft in the Pacific.  Crosley built 1,368,785 Mk 32s. 

Table 6 - Number of VT Proximity Fuzes built by Crosley during World War Two
Primary Source:  Bureau of Ordnance, U.S. Navy, History of the Bureau of Ordnance, World War II, vol.2, pt. 2.
T designations are U.S. Army, unless otherwise noted for British Army.
Mk designations are U.S. Navy, unless otherwise noted for British Navy.

Fuze Type Number Built Number Shipped for Combat Use Number Tested
T74 - 90mm AA 974,628 951,000 23,628
T75 - 120mm AA 621 333 288
T98 - 3.7 in AA British 628,068 615,574 12,494
T149 - 3.7 in AA British Short Round 124,238 122,592 1,646
T152 - 90mm AA Short 552,295 545,736 6,559
Mk 32 - 5"/38 1,368,785 1,335,798 32,987
Mk 40 - 5"/38 200,432 195,000 5,432
Mk 45 - 3"/50 Mod 11 79,186 75,852 3,334
Mk 47 - 6"/47 27,205 26,532 673
Mk 53 - 5"/38 880,042 863,855 16,187
Mk 56 - 3"/50 - British Navy 121,610 119,624 1,986
Mk 59 - 5"/54 32,414 31,635 779
Mk 60 - British Navy 216,389 213,021 3,368
Totals 5,205,913 5,096,552 109,361

Eastman Kodak:  The company at the end of the war was producing 23,000 batteries per day along with doing final assembly.  After World War Two, Eastman Kodak continued to make the VT fuze.

Table 7 - Number of VT Proximity Fuzes built by Eastman Kodak Rochester, NY during World War Two
Primary Source:  Bureau of Ordnance, U.S. Navy, History of the Bureau of Ordnance, World War II, vol.2, pt. 2.
T designations are U.S. Army, unless otherwise noted for British Army.
Mk designations are U.S. Navy, unless otherwise noted for British Navy.

Fuze Type Number Built Number Shipped for Combat Use Number Tested
T80 - Small Howitzer 1,351,517 1,299,000 52,517
T80 - Small Howitzer RB2 92,668 90,000 2,668
T80 - Small Howitzer RB6 641,935 630,000 11,935
T97 - British Small Howitzer 69,425 66,624 2,801
Mk 33 - British Navy 117,195 101,920 15,275
Mk 53 - 5"/38 190 0 190
Mk 58 - 3"/50 170,984 164,760 6,224
Totals 2,443,914 2,352,304 91,610

McQuay-Norris:

Table 8 - Number of VT Proximity Fuzes built by McQuay-Norris St. Louis, MO during World War Two
Primary Source:  Bureau of Ordnance, U.S. Navy, History of the Bureau of Ordnance, World War II, vol.2, pt. 2.
T designations are U.S. Army, unless otherwise noted for British Army.
Mk designations are U.S. Navy, unless otherwise noted for British Navy.

Fuze Type Number Built Number Shipped for Combat Use Number Tested
T80 - Small Howitzer 2,492,711 2,476,111 16,600
T80 - Small Howitzer RB6 369,647 367,138 2,519
Total 2,862,368 2,843,249 19,119


Other suppliers:

Table 9 - Early Suppliers and Research Facilities utilized in the VT Fuze Program
State and Company City Comments/Product
CT    
Remington Arms Company, Inc. Bridgeport Research
DE    
Hercules Powder Company Wilmington Research and Squib Production
IL    
C.F. Burgess Laboratories, Inc. Elgin Battery Research
Erwood Company Chicago Prototype Components and Final Assembly
General Sintering Corporation Evanston Powdered Metal Parts
Keystone Carbon Company Chicago Sintered Metal Cap Production
Powdered Metal Products Chicago Sintered Metal Cap Production
Jefferson Switch Company Bellwood Research and Mercury Switch Production
KY    
Ken-Rad Tube & Lamp Company Owensboro Research
MA    
Hytron Corporation Salem Research and Tube Production
Raytheon Manufacturing Company Newton Research and Tube Production
Waltham Watch Company Waltham Research
MD    
John Hopkins University Baltimore Research
MI    
University of Michigan Ann Arbor Research
NJ    
Henry L. Crowley & Company West Orange Powdered Metal Parts
National Union Radio Corporation Newark Research
Princeton University Princeton Research
Radio Corporation of America Camden Research and Final Assembly
Radio Corporation of America Harrison Final Assembly
NM    
University of New Mexico Albuquerque Research
NY    
American Electro-Metal Company Yonkers Powdered Metal Parts
General Electric Company Schenectady Research
National Carbon Company New York Research and Battery Production
Sylvania Electric Products New York Tubes and Final Assembly
Bell Telephone Laboratories - Western Electric Company New York Research and Tube Production
Eastman Kodak Company Rochester Research and Final Assembly
OH    
National Carbon Company Cleveland Battery Production
Crosley Corporation Cincinnati Development and Final Assembly
Delco Moraine Division of General Motors Dayton Powdered Metal Parts
Hoover Company North Canton Mercury Switch Production
OK    
Carter Oil Company - Geophysical Research Laboratory Tulsa Mercury Switch Design and Research
Washington, DC    
Carnegie Institution of Washington   Research
WI    
Thomas R. Gibbs & Company Delavan Research

 

Table 10 - All Suppliers by State engaged in VT Fuze Component Production as of March 1945
State and Company City Comments/Product
CT    
Coastal Machine Works Bridgeport  
Goodyear Rubber Sundries New Haven  
The Stratfield Company Bridgeport  
GA    
Miller-Hydro Company Bainbridge  
Reynolds Corporation Macon  
IL    
American Condenser Company Chicago Capacitors
John E. Fast Chicago  
Hegeler Zinc Company Danville  
Illinois Zinc Company Chicago  
Jefferson Electric Company Bellwood  
Lion Manufacturing Company Chicago  
Mathieson & Hegeler Zinc Company LaSalle  
Muter Company Chicago  
Santay Corporation Chicago  
Vaughn Novelty Company Chicago  
IN    
Aluminum Company of America Lafayette  
Durham Manufacturing Company Muncie This company was a surprise to me, as its former plant location is only 13 miles from my residence.  During peace time the company built furniture.  During World War Two, Durham manufactured 20mm and 40mm projectiles for the U.S. Navy.  The Navy awarded it the Army-Navy "E" flag five times during the war.  With such an excellent production record the Navy brought the company into the VT fuze program.
For more information on this company. go to my Durham Manufacturing Company link at the top of the page.
RCA Manufacturing Company Bloomington  
KY    
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Lexington  
MA    
American Fireworks Company West Hannover  
Bolta Company Lawrence  
Cornell-Dubilier New Bedord Capacitors
Cornell-Dubilier Worchester Capacitors
General Electric Lynn  
General Electric Pittsfield  
Prophylactic Brush Company Florence  
Sickles Company Chicago  
Sprague Electric Company North Adams Capacitors
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Ipswich  
Tobe Deutschmann Corporation Canton  
MI    
Electronics Products Dexter  
King-Seely Corporation Ann Arbor  
Modern Plastics Corporation Benton Harbor  
Thermo Plastics Division of Standard Products Company St. Clair  
Tecumseh Products Company Tecumseh  
MO    
McQuay-Norris Manufacturing Company St. Louis  
St. Louis Moulding Company St. Louis  
NC    
National Carbon Company Winston-Salem Batteries
Wright Automotive Company Durham  
NH    
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Dover Tubes and Final Assembly
NJ    
Automatic Winding Company East Newark  
Callite Tungsten Union City  
Thomas A. Edison Company West Orange  
Eisler Engineering Company Newark  
Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation Newark  
General Aniline and Film Corporation Graselli  
Interchemicals Specialties, Incorporated Bound Brook  
RCA Manufacturing Company Camden Final Assembly
Solar Manufacturing Company Bayonne  
Standard Tool Company Arlington  
Tube Reducing Corporation Wallington  
Wallington Tube Company Wallington  
NY    
American Brass Company Buffalo  
B.G. Corporation New York  
Beech-Nut Packing Company Canajoharie  
C.C. Bradley Company Homer  
C.C. Bradley Company Syracuse  
Colonial Radio Corporation Buffalo  
Control Instrument Corporation Brooklyn  
Doehler Die Casting Company Batavia  
Dumont Electric Company New York  
Eastman Kodak Rochester Batteries and Final Assembly
Electrical Reactance Franklinville  
H & R Tool Works Buffalo  
Hercules Powder Company Port Ewen  
Ideal Plastics Corporation Long Island  
King Laboratories Syracuse  
New Jersey Zinc Company New York  
Sampson United Corporation Oswego  
Solar Manufacturing Company New York  
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Flushing, Long Island Tube Components
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Kew Gardens Tube Components
OH    
Barth Stamping and Machine Company Cleveland  
Clippard Instrument Company Cincinnati  
Corcoran-Brown Division of Auto-Lite Cincinnati  
Crosley Corporation Cincinnati Final Assembly
Detroit Harvester Toledo  
General Electric Cleveland  
Hoover Company North Canton Batteries and Mercury Safety Switches
National Carbon Company Cleveland  
National Cash Register Company Dayton  
Recto Molded Products Cincinnati  
J.C. Ulmer Companyi Cleveland  
Western Automatic Screw Machine Corporation Elyria  
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company Mansfield  
PA    
Acme Die and Machine Latrobe  
Aluminum Company of America Pittsburgh  
Atlas Powder Company Reynolds  
Cameron Manufacturing Reynoldsville  
Erie Resistor Corporation Erie Resistors
General Aniline and Film Corporation Easton  
P.R. Hoffman Company Carlisle  
International Resistance Company Philadelphia Resistors
Marine Aircraft Instrument Company Clearfield  
Speer Resistor Company St. Mary's Resistors
Swanson Machine & Tool Company Erie  
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Altoona Tube Components
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Austin Tube Components
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Emporium Tube Components
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Mill Hall Tube Components
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Montoursville Tube Components
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Smethport Tube Components
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Towanda Tube Components
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Warren Tube Components
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Williamsport Tube Components
RI    
Cornell-Dubilier Providence Capacitors
Kleistone Rubber Company Warren  
VT   Batteries
National Carbon Company Bennington  
WV    
Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. Huntington Tube Components
WI    
Centralab Division of Globe Union Milwaukee Capacitors
Wisconsin Screw Machine Company Racine  

 

 

 

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