[Boatanchors] a good mot. history

Sun, 4 May 2003 18:32:18 -0700

I have  not found anything out on the web.... on WHY.
have several copies of the  founders touch at the museum but I am at home...
let me scratch around here and see if there is one!

ed!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ed sharpe" <[email protected]>
To: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <[email protected]>; "Glen Zook"
<[email protected]>; "Ed Berbari" <[email protected]>; "W1GOR"
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Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] a good mot. history

> opps! perhaps the wrong product line and the wrong generation Galvin!
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <[email protected]>
> To: "Glen Zook" <[email protected]>; "ed sharpe" <[email protected]>; "Ed
> Berbari" <[email protected]>; "W1GOR" <[email protected]>;
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> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 4:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] a good mot. history
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>
> > But why was it changed to Motorola in the first place?
> >
> >
> > ----------
> > From: Glen Zook <[email protected]>
> > To: ed sharpe <[email protected]>; Ed Berbari <[email protected]>;
> W1GOR
> > <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] a good mot. history
> > Date: Sunday, May 04, 2003 7:43 PM
> >
> > Actually, it was the Galvin brothers (two brothers)
> > who founded Motorola in South Bend, Indiana.  It was
> > during the early 1920s that they burned up the car.  I
> > have heard that it was a Studebaker (which also was
> > manufactured in South Bend) but cannot confirm that.
> >
> > They started using Motorola as a brand name for what
> > became Galvin Manufacturing.  In fact, there are all
> > sorts of World War II surplus items around that say
> > Galvin Manufacturing or Galvin Brothers Manufacturing
> > on them.  It wasn't until after World War II that the
> > primary company name was changed to Motorola.
> > However, Galvin Manufacturing still held the
> > controlling interest in Motorola.
> >
> > There is a book that has been out for quite a number
> > of years that tells the history of Motorola but I
> > don't remember the title.
> >
> > Back in the late 1970s, Motorola actually had a
> > company historian who's job it was to compile history,
> > obtain equipment that had made it through
> > extra-ordinary conditions, etc.  I met that person
> > when Motorola was trying to consolidate all of the
> > reconditioned equipment centers (privately owned)
> > around the country into one central, Motorola owned,
> > facility in Schamburg, Illinois.  Motorola spent over
> > a million dollars trying to accomplish this, but then
> > only shipped a very few radios before shutting down
> > the operation.
> >
> > I owned the Motorola reconditioned equipment center
> > for the south-central US from 1970 until they went out
> > of that end of the business in 1979.
> >
> > Also, it was not a radio telephone that was installed
> > in the car that burned up, but a simple broadcast band
> > receiver.  Mobile telephones were not in use at that
> > time.  It wasn't until after World War II that mobile
> > telephones came into vogue.
> >
> > Glen, K9STH
> >
> >
> > --- ed sharpe <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > It was my impression that Bob Galvin's father founded
> > Motorola.  I heard him tell the story about how his
> > father  installed their first mobile telephone in the
> > 1920s or 30s in their banker's car and how it caused a
> > fire in the car's engine soon after driving out of the shop.
> >
> > =====
> > Glen, K9STH
> >
> > Web sites
> >
> > http://home.attbi.com/~k9sth
> > http://home.attbi.com/~zcomco
> >
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