[Boatanchors] a good mot. history

Sun, 4 May 2003 21:33:57 -0700

founders touch  does not  give a WHY either....

the truth is out there..... somewhere...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <[email protected]>
To: "Glen Zook" <[email protected]>; "ed sharpe" <[email protected]>; "Ed
Berbari" <[email protected]>; "W1GOR" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] a good mot. history

> 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
>
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