Thu Aug 01, 2019 8:40 am by cornbinder89
Most if not all the appliance brands from the automakers are no long owned by them today, as they concentrate on the core business, but back in the Hay-day of the 50's they all had other lines of consumer products to keep consumers in the "family".
Swedish Electrolux has the patent on the continuous absorbsion cycle ammonia refrigeration. My Dometic branded fridge has Electrolux workings. Now another mfg is making the same unit still with the Electrolux guts.
Delco made "lighting" plants for the farm before the REA.
The White sewing machine company was one that broaden so much that it became the down fall, Making heavy trucks, farm equipment and just about everything else one could think of. The at one point owned GM's heavy truck division for a short time before Volvo bought it and White collapsed. Now White farm equipment is in name only, like IHC and Case farm equipment, being owned by Tenneco, White is owned by AGCO.