The company will continue to market certain starters and heavy-duty alternators for original equipment and aftermarket customers under the Delco Remy trademark, which is licensed to the company by General Motors.
The company will also add the Remy trademark to its brand portfolio for a variety of automotive products in addition to using Remy International, Inc. Under a separate agreement, the company continues its relationship with GM Service and Parts Operations to distribute aftermarket light-duty starters under the AC Delco brand, for the U.
Our new strategy will offer two top trademarks, Remy and Delco Remy. Administratively, there will be some changes, but operations, production and deliveries will be unaffected, according to Snyder. Company History The original company began as a home wiring business in when two brothers, Frank and Perry Remy, stopped long enough in Anderson, Indiana, on their way West, to find a heartland-America community with all the resources and opportunities they needed to set up shop and stake their futures.
According to Ted Vinson the newspaper reversed the names of the brothers so Perry is on the left and Frank on the right. Perry is the older of the two. The two persons that started it all. Unknown Date of Photo.
When the brothers arrived in Anderson in the early 's, Frank was 14 and Perry Perry passed away at age 57 on ,, while his younger brother Frank pass away at age 81 in A second photo of the Remy Brothers with an early piece of electrical equipment. Perry on the left and Frank on the right.
Editor's Note: Please check back for updated history. Take your pick. Research done by Brian Mulcahy indicates that while they had purchased the property and were listed in the phone book at that location, there is no tax record of any improvements to the property that would have been recorded when buildings were constructed.
See details for all below. See below Courtesy of Brian Mulcahy. Sefton Container Corp. Courtesy of Brian Mulcahy. This clipping is out of a issue of Gas Engine Magazine. Note that the location is given as Second and Hendricks in the second paragraph. Perry and Frank incorporated to become the Remy Electric Company during which time they developed a high tension magneto that was installed on the Buick.
This lot was bounded on the south by the railroad tracks and on the north by a line extending west from just south of 24th Street. The western boundary was Noble Street and Columbus on the east side. The purchase date was May 23 of that year. It will finally be completed in One of the first structures built is the engineering building which later becomes the Plant One school rooms.
See the Plant Photo Page for more on the growth of the complex. See our Moments in Time Page to view this excellent look into Remy over years ago. At this this time battery ignition technology was replacing magnetos as the ignition of choice on the automobile. Due to the fact that the brothers had never learned to delegate authority in the organization and the demands on time it consumed, they were pressed to both run the expanding company and develop the new ignition type to stay in business.
Hence they decided to sell the business. Fletcher reorganized the company and hired outside engineering expertise to meet the challenges of the changing market. The Remy Electric Company lost the Buick ignition business with problems with its Model RL magneto, which was the last of this product line for the company except for service business.
Fletcher went bankrupt after WWI. At the request of the government he invested his own money to supply marine engines for the military. However, the war ended before he could recoup his investment.
He later ended up bellhop in California and died a pauper. During the WWII the government built many plants and then leased them to companies such as DR had in Kings Mills, OH, [see below] because companies were fearful of investing huge amounts of money for a limited payback along with being stuck with unused facilities after the war was over.
Durant purchases the Remy Electric Company. At the same time it also purchased the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company Delco in Dayton, OH which until now had been a competitor to the Remy Electric Company as it had invented the first automotive self starter in , a year before Remy came out with one in Delco also was producing ignitions and generators.
Both organizations continued on with their product lines as separate divisions of United Motors. The earlier work by The Remy Electric company starting in was successful and in the company produced 41, generators and , ignition distributors. Remy had 10, employed at its Columbus Avenue operation. Remy Electric Country Club established. See our Anderson Country Club page. This would have been the east-west section which went all the way to Columbus Ave. When the second north-south section was completed in it was a massive, L-shaped structure that dominated the skyline of south Anderson and was the Divisional Headquarters of the Division until Plant One was the symbol of the dynamic character of the Division.
The Remy "Clan" is published for the first time. A safety committee is initiated. American Rotary Valve Arvac is purchased to produce cranking motors. More land is purchased south of the Columbus Avenue complex for expansion.
Horns would be manufactured by DR later in Plant 7 and then 10 until the business was sold in the late 's. Remy begins production in Muncie, IN of automotive tail and side lamps.
The location of plant later became the site of the Muncie Trade school and was not the same plant or location as the battery plant. This decision to move all of the electrical products to Delco-Remy Anderson was pivotal and extremely important to the Division and Anderson. From data we have gathered it appears that Delco in Dayton actually had a larger customer base and product line then Remy. The Plant openings of Plants 4, 6 and 2 would have provided the capacity to run the product lines brought over from Dayton and accelerate the growth of Remy.
Without the Delco product lines these Plants may not have been needed or built. It could be Remy would have ceased to exist as an independent division or disappeared all together. With this acquisition DR had a manufacturing plant in Dayton, OH at least until when it became Delco Products that employed 2, employees. Anderson Herald via Brian Mulcahy. Plant 4 opened on January Plant 6 on May Door prizes of automobiles, radios and refrigerators. One of the main reasons for the event was to demonstrate to the GM staff that there were still plenty of potential workers available in the area to staff further expansion.
See our Plant Photos Page for a photo of the event and our video page, A Year to Remember for actual film footage. The following facts about Remy in were taken from a handout given to everyone who attended the Plant 6 Open House on May Total employment was 4, consisting of 2, men and 1, women. Distributors 4, Plant 1 - Plant 2 would pick this up when it opened a year later.
Coils 4, Plant 1 - Plant 2 would pick this up when it opened a year later. The company is changing its corporate name to mark the tenth anniversary of its spin off from General Motors. The company said it will continue to market certain starters and heavy-duty alternators for original equipment and aftermarket customers under the Delco Remy trademark, which is licensed to the company by General Motors.
The company will also add the Remy trademark to its brand portfolio for a variety of automotive products in addition to using Remy International as the new corporate name. Click Here to Read More Advertisement The company said it will continue to market certain starters and heavy-duty alternators for original equipment and aftermarket customers under the Delco Remy trademark, which is licensed to the company by General Motors.
Under a separate agreement, the company will continue its relationship with GM Service and Parts Operations to distribute aftermarket light-duty starters, under the ACDelco brand, for the U. Remy headquarters and the technical center will remain in Anderson, Ind. The company said there will be some administrative changes but that operations, production and deliveries will be unaffected.
Product lines have expanded to include starters, alternators, transmissions, engines, fuel systems and remanufacturing operations now located on four continents, closer to its global original equipment customers and service markets.
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