March 11, 2024
Delco Light Company Dayton, Ohio Bronze Paper Weight
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Delco Light Company Dayton, Ohio Bronze Paper Weight 4" x 2.5". Almost one pound of Bronze! Dated 1926 it shows Plant No. 1 and No. 2 of the Delco-Light Company, Dayton, Ohio, a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation. The company is noted on the paperweight as being "The largest manufacturers of farm electric plants and electric refrigeration equipment" Excellent original untouched condition. Free Shipping!Delco-Light began when Charles Kettering and Edward Deeds formed the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (DELCO) in 1909 to manufacture ignition sets for Cadillac. Later, in 1916, a new company called the Domestic Engineering Company was formed for the purpose of manufacturing and selling Kettering's light plant system that had been in development at Delco as early as 1913. Later the organization came to be called The Delco-Light Company. In that same year Delco was sold to United Motors for nine million dollars. Two years later, in 1918, General Motors acquired United Motors and has kept the Delco company name to this day.Kettering first set out to provide for his mother, who lived on the farm, the convenience electric power. He set up a gas engine and belt driven generator that charged a set of batteries and wired the home to run on 32 volts DC. However the system was not fully automatic. When the engine quit running and
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