General Motors Research Staff: Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company Delco - 1909
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Item No: arcd06508
Title: General Motors Research Staff: Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company Delco - 1909
Media Type:
Photographic Prints
Source: Automobile Reference Collection
Notes:
THEN…The loft of this barn on Central Avenue in Dayton, Ohio was the humble first home of General Motors Research staff, begun in 1909 as Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (Delco).here Charles F. Kettering and his “barn-loft gang” of engineers and mechanics developed the first automotive electric self-starter which appeared in the 1912 Cadillac.
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