Delco Remy clan, 1960-08-26

              Vol. 39, No. 12 Published By and For Employes of Delco-Remy Division, General Motors Corp., Anderson, Ind.
To Survive and Progress
We Must Work Together
As a Team, Producing
Superior Products
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Folks�This Is the Challenge
Let's Meet It! !
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Park to Close
Killbuck Park will be closed except Saturdays and Sundays after Labor Day through the month of Sep-tember. The park will be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Labor Day.
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UNITED MOTORS SERVICE Zone Service Managers view products made by Delco-Remy competitors which were on display in Plant 15 during the annual week-long Service Engineering Conference. In front from left are Tom Benenson, Philadelphia, Pa., and Robert McNamee of New York City, N.Y.
FRANK FICCA, Delco-Remy Service School instructor, is pictured pointing to the D-R emblem on the wall just prior to the opening of class work for United Motors Service Training Center instructors. The five-day session was to be concluded today.
SERVICE SCHOOL CONCLUDES 2 COURSES
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D-R 4-Unit Display Howerton Repeats
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FINISHING TOUCHES are being put on the Delco-Remy electrochemical display (above) in Los Angeles by Alan Nakata (left) General Motors Styling Section, and Paul Perkins, Supervisor of Art and Exhibits at Delco-Remy.
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An intensive training course for United Motors Service Training Center instructors, GM Canada Service Engineers, D-R Field Service Engineers, and UMS Zone Service Managers who together had traveled from Canada and coast to coast to Delco-Remy where they could better learn about 1961 D-R equipment, was conducted during the past two weeks at the Service School.
Latest D-R Equipment
Changes Are Reviewed
James Nielsen, Vancouver, British Columbia (left), and T. H. Smith, Montreal, Quebec, are seen at a generator-regulator test stand in the service school. The instrument is used to test out generators, regulators and cranking motors. Nielsen and Smith were two of five regional service engineers from GM Canada, who attended a weeklong training program.
J. R. Crawford, Houston, Tex. (left), and George H. Davis, Atlanta, Ga., UMS Zone Service Managers from their respective areas, are seen looking over another generator-regulator test stand in the Service School.
Carl Meder of Detroit, representing GM Overseas Operation (left), and Karl Pape, UMS Zone Service Manager from San Francisco, Calif. (center), along with Frank Plovick, Delco-Remy Field Service Manager, are discussing a generator-regulator test stand during the training session.
Wedding Bells . . .
Congratulations to Lois Myers, Dept. 311, and Harry Watkins, 393, who were married recently.
A new four-unit exhibit showing Delco-Remy's ability to build electrical components for missiles and other advanced weapons, aircraft, and ground support has been completed and is being shown to West Coast manufacturers.
Its purpose is to show what Delco-Remy has under development and what it has to offer the ever expanding missile and electronics market.
The exhibit, which comes in four 10-foot units, can be shown all together or by sections. It was designed by General Motors Styling Section under the supervision of D-R's Advertising department in cooperation with Applied Science and Electrochemical Research departments.
The first unit shows components for advanced weapon systems, the second displays electrochemical power sources, the third reveals electric components for ground support equipment, and the fourth is a continuous movie pointing out facilities and capabilities in the advanced weapons research area.
The first two units were on display at the Western Electronics Conference in Los Angeles this week and all four units will be part of a huge GM exhibit sponsored by the new Defense Systems Division at the Air Force Association Aero Space Panorama in San Francisco next month.
Plant 6 employes recently completed one of the most enviable safety records in the history of Delco-Remy. A total of 6,271,000 safe man hours were recorded by employes under Plant 6 supervision.
The distinguished record dates from June 1, 1957 to June 1, 1960. This performance equals and in some respects exceeds the previous best plant safety record also achieved by Plant 6 in 1948,
Howerton (Dept. 426) who scored the first double victory in the D-R Monthly Fishing Contest history in June did it again in July!!
For July he collected the $10 gift certificates for the largest crappie (15 ounces) and bluegill (14 ounces).
lily� also produced the largest of two fish entered this season: 8-pound-3-ounce pike by Raymond Hudson (191) and 4-pound smallmouth bass by Vernon Clifton (109).
The fifth July winner was Clifford Stohler (326) 6-pound largemouth bass.
AU D-R active and retired employes and members of their immediate families are eligible to compete for the monthly prizes which continue through Oct. 15.
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In the picture, Paul Stayton, (center), superintendent, is seen presenting a purse to Nellie Quinn, Dept. 612, assembly operator, who is the oldest woman employe from standpoint of continuous service at Delco-Remy. On the left, is Harry Hoppes, Dept. 628, a hand screw operator, who is the oldest man employe in Plant 6 on the basis of continuous service. He was presented a billfold by Stayton.
The UMS Training Center instructors concluded their class work today and the Zone Service Managers and Service Engineers wound up their five-day program the week before on Friday.
During the week-long session attended by Service Engineers and Zone Service Managers, members from Delco-Remy's Engineering Department reviewed with the group the latest changes in electrical equipment scheduled for installation on 1961 vehicles.
Field service problems were also discussed and information given on necessary corrections for retaining customer satisfaction. This program is an annual affair and serves to help our field service organization provide assistance in its respective areas to maintenance personnel responsible for servicing Delco-Remy equipment.
The UMS Training Center instructors received basically the same information plus teacher training helps to guide them in their own presentations. This included a review
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Both persons, each with 44 years of service, accepted the award on behalf of all men and women in Plant 6. They were congratulated for their part in achieving the safety record by General Manager Don L. Boyes, Works Manager R. L. Kessler, Manufacturing Manager P. W. House, and Personnel Director R. J. Hulse. All men and women employes under Plant 6 supervision were presented billfolds and purses by their supervisors.
(Editor's Note) . . . The following article, reprinted from a recent issue of the WALL STREET JOURNAL, is deeply significant to every Delco-Remy employe regardless of the job he or she holds, because it reveals a competitive move of our toughest competitor in the electrical equipment business.
"TOLEDO�Electric Autolite Co. announced it has acquired an 80-acre tract at Decatur, Ala., for a plant to make some light automotive and industrial items manufactured in Toledo.
The company earlier had said it planned to move some of its Toledo production to an unnamed 'Southern city' because of the high cost of production at Toledo.
The Alabama plant, to cost from $6 million to $7 million, is expected to be in full operation by the spring of 1961. It will make regulators, distributors, solenoid switches and other equipment made in Toledo. The company said present plans are for production of generators and starting motors to continue at Toledo.
Robert H. Davis, president, said the move from Toledo was necessary so Autolite could continue to make products on a competitive basis and to enable us to obtain a greater share of the electrical equipment business.
A contract to supply parts to Chrysler Corp. will terminate this summer."
Perhaps the most significant aspect of the story besides the building of the new plant is that Autolite has lost the Chrysler contract. Chrysler has now gone into this field, itself, and will supply its own electrical systems in the future.
Needless to say, though it should be said again, Autolite will be driving harder for business than ever before and the forefront of the attack will be leveled undoubtedly against Delco-Remy.
If Autolite wins a contract away from us, it means just that many less jobs at Delco-Remy. This is simple economics.
However, Delco-Remy has thrived on competition and grown through the years because of it. And if we are to continue growing we must meet competition on a competitive basis by building re-(Continued on page 4, col. 3)
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