IrishJoker
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Following the thread about Alternators and people's desire to find OEM parts as replacements, I decided to do some investigation work on replacement alternators. For some things I don't mind a rebuild or new aftermarket replacement. Alternators being one of these items that I don't need an OEM part for. Any how here is a little bit of history for all you folks that love to soak this stuff up. Here is the story .... A long long time ago .......
In 1905 there were these two brother with the last name or "REMY". Seems these two brother made a reliable Remy Magneto. They formed a company called the Remy Electric Company (REC). By 1911 they had sold their company to Fletcher Savings and Trust (FST). FST in turn sold REC in 1916 to United Motors Corporation. Now it seems that United Motors was in tha aquisition mode because at the same time they purchase another company call "Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company". Can anybody guess the acronym for this company? How about "DELCO"!
United Motors merged with giant GM in 1918. GM acquired REC and DELCO in this merger.
Product lines from REC and DELCO were combined to produce electric starters, electric windshield wipers, generators and distributors.
GM sold part of the Heavy Duty Systems and Automotive Systems devisions to private inverstors in 1994; the New Company was called - "DELCO REMY" International INC.
In 2004 the company again changed it's name to REMY INTERNATIOINAL INC. Today REMY INTERNATIONAL markets OEM and Reman starters and alternators to customers under their Delco Remy brand name which is licensed to the company by General Motors.
You will also find that Palladium is the brand name used on it's aftermarket Alternators and Starters under the "World Wide Automotive" (WWA) trademark. WWA Is a division of Remy International and is located in Virginia.
Remy International has locations in VA, NJ, MI, IN, OH, Mexico, Canada, TX, MIS, Brazil and several more locations around the globe. Remy makes the DELCO Remy alternator and in turns gives it to AC-Delco. So there you have a rather twisted way of doing business, a bit confusing but no more so then some other business mergers through history. You just need to follow the spider web a bit.
In 1905 there were these two brother with the last name or "REMY". Seems these two brother made a reliable Remy Magneto. They formed a company called the Remy Electric Company (REC). By 1911 they had sold their company to Fletcher Savings and Trust (FST). FST in turn sold REC in 1916 to United Motors Corporation. Now it seems that United Motors was in tha aquisition mode because at the same time they purchase another company call "Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company". Can anybody guess the acronym for this company? How about "DELCO"!
United Motors merged with giant GM in 1918. GM acquired REC and DELCO in this merger.
Product lines from REC and DELCO were combined to produce electric starters, electric windshield wipers, generators and distributors.
GM sold part of the Heavy Duty Systems and Automotive Systems devisions to private inverstors in 1994; the New Company was called - "DELCO REMY" International INC.
In 2004 the company again changed it's name to REMY INTERNATIOINAL INC. Today REMY INTERNATIONAL markets OEM and Reman starters and alternators to customers under their Delco Remy brand name which is licensed to the company by General Motors.
You will also find that Palladium is the brand name used on it's aftermarket Alternators and Starters under the "World Wide Automotive" (WWA) trademark. WWA Is a division of Remy International and is located in Virginia.
Remy International has locations in VA, NJ, MI, IN, OH, Mexico, Canada, TX, MIS, Brazil and several more locations around the globe. Remy makes the DELCO Remy alternator and in turns gives it to AC-Delco. So there you have a rather twisted way of doing business, a bit confusing but no more so then some other business mergers through history. You just need to follow the spider web a bit.
