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 founder, Marion Mallory, Sr., moved the company 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 was placed with Mallory by Ford Motor Company for one million distributors for its new V8.
Through 1948, Mallory supplied much of the “original-equipment” ignition components for Ford.
Even today, performance ignition products for Ford Motor Company vehicles continue to be built by Mallory.
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.
Within a short period of time, the entire company was located at what was then 1801 Oregon Street, Carson City, NV.
Born on April 4, 1893, in Nevada, Missouri, Marion Mallory, Sr.
has held hundreds of patents in the automotive field since 1916.
Initially, he held patents under his own name, and then used the name “Mallory Research Company”.
After 1925, all of his patents were under the name Mallory Electric Corporation.
Mallory holds 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.
Several countries, including the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, and Germany, hold his patents.
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.
