Mallory Electric of Toledo, Ohio was incorporated on Friday, February 13, 1925.
At 1742 Nicholas building, Toledo, Ohio, Mallory Electric manufactured its products.
In August of 1935, the company was moved by its founder, Marion Mallory, Sr., to 12416 Cloverdale Avenue, Detroit, Michigan.
Due to the company’s enormous growth in the early thirties, this initial move from Toledo to Detroit was made to be closer to the Ford Motor Company.
Marion Mallory Sr.
had established ties with his close friend Henry Ford, and together they designed the ignition system for the 1932 Ford V8.
An order for one million distributors for its new V8 was placed by Ford Motor Company with Mallory.
Through 1948, Mallory supplied much of the “original-equipment” ignition components for Ford.
Mallory continues to build performance ignition products for Ford Motor Company vehicles even today.
By the late 1960’s, the Detroit plant had become too small, and in 1969, “Boots” Mallory began moving his father’s company to Carson City, Nevada.
From Michigan to Nevada, ten of the nearly one hundred personnel of the Mallory Electric Company and their families moved to help the company get re-established.
At what was then 1801 Oregon Street, Carson City, NV, the entire company was located within a short period of time.
Born on April 4, 1893, in Nevada, Missouri, Marion Mallory, Sr.
has held hundreds of patents in the automotive field since 1916.
Under his own name, he first held patents, and then used the name “Mallory Research Company”.
After 1925, all of his patents were under the name Mallory Electric Corporation.
Mallory has patents on items such as electrical systems, shock absorbers, internal combustion engines, ignition coils, ignition timers, ignition systems, governors, air inlet devices, carburetors, and even children’s toy race tracks to name a few.
While his specialty was ignitions and fuel timing systems, he also invented a breakerless magneto and improved distributors and coils.
His patents are held in several countries, including the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, and Germany.
Many of the patents have been licensed to other manufacturers.
For many years, second only to Thomas Edison in patent holdings was Marion Mallory, Sr.
