Philco was a common household brand for many years. The company started in 1892, making street lights. Then they pivoted to batteries. This was big business when early radios were all ...

Philco was a common household brand for many years. The company started in 1892, making street lights. Then they pivoted to batteries. This was big business when early radios were all battery-operated ...

Many of the autos parked outside the Philadelphia headquarters of Philco Corp. these days are new Fords. Ever since Ford Motor Co. took over Philco 15 months ago, Philco’s workers, as new members of ...

New York —In an earlier column I wrote about my very first industry junket, a trip to the Bahamas for a Philco-Ford sales convention. Philco also hosted my strangest. On Sunday evening, Oct. 1, 1973 I ...

Even old Henry Ford, accustomed as he was to thinking big, would have been impressed by his grandson’s latest feat. In one of the largest industrial mergers in U.S. history, Ford Motor Co. last week ...

There’s nothing quite as retro-futuristic as the Philco Predicta television from the late 1950s. That bubbly, detached picture tube. The metal frame. It’s gorgeous. Unfortunately, the iconic TV set is ...

We take remote controls for granted. For most of us, they’ve existed from the day they were born. We knew how to use them before we could even begin to fathom how they work. But really, they’re ...