Philco Radio Company Collection 1943-1962 1943-1953

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Philco Radio Company Collection 1943-1962 1943-1953

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The Philco Radio Company Collection is a part of the Business Collection at the Sandusky Library Archives. The collection consists of materials from the Sandusky period of the radio company- first owned by Simplex, then by the Philco Company.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6398214

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Philco Radio Company, Simplex Company

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In 1924, Harry Maibohm, founder of the Maibohm Motors Company, opened the Simplex Radio Company on the northeast corner of King and West Monroe in Sandusky, Ohio. Philco, one of the nation's largest radio companies, bought a controlling interest in the Simplex company in 1937. The company and its 77 employees moved to the remodeled Maibohm auto plant at 3130 West Monroe Street. Philco completed its purchase of the Simplex Company in 1944, and the plant took the Philco name in 1948. ...

Simplex Manufacturing Corporation

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Philco Corporation

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