Two years later, that number was cut roughly in half, being halved yet again by the summer of 2005, the year Delphi filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.Ī string of Delphi plants closed in the area as the company made its way through Chapter 11. In 1999, some 15,000 workers were employed at area Delphi plants. In Dayton, unfortunately, Delphi’s story quickly became one of steep decline after 1999. Kettering – inventor of the automotive self-starter - to thank. (which became Delco) was founded in 1909 by two Dayton-based giants of business and engineering, Charles Kettering and Edward Deeds.Ĭhances are excellent that you’ve never had to use a hand crank to start a car. >PHOTOS: Vibrant new mural design energizes Dayton’s transportation center garage Another source: Both companies had strong ties to Dayton, at different places and at different times in their long respective histories. Today, the newly combined company has about 825 Dayton employees and 3,600 workers nationally.Įven in Dayton, Delco – a former producer of auto and defense electronics – and Delphi – a current producer of auto parts – sometimes get confused.ĭelphi was born of General Motors’ auto parts-producing arm, being spun off and becoming an independent company in 1999.Īt one point, part of Delco itself was spun off to Delphi. What came of the deal was “one of the largest printing and print management companies in North America,” the company said at the time. In August 2013, Standard Register acquired another local company operating in roughly the same space, Workflow One, in a deal valued at $218 million. Once focused on paper, documents and labels, Standard Register today is more about helping companies communicate with customers and staking a place in health care, financial services, industrial and other markets. It’s still based in the Gem City while growing elsewhere, most recently in Denver and, last year, in Jeffersonville, Ind. Some of NCR’s executive team remains based in New York City, where current CEO Bill Nuti has long worked.įounded in 1912, Standard Register is another Dayton company that has weathered the test of time. The company had 11,000 local employees by the end of 1949 and 18,000 in 1966.īut a long exodus from Dayton to other sites globally probably began in the 1970s, if not earlier, and by 2009, NCR had just 1,300 employees in Dayton, fewer than it had in Georgia at that point.īy June 2009, the company announced a headquarters move to the Atlanta area, something residents and leaders long feared and suspected.
John Patterson, legendary founder of NCR, oversaw a local rescue response during the Great Flood of 1913, which devastated several communities along the Great Miami River, including Dayton. Though NCR - once known as National Cash Register - is no longer based in Dayton, its history will always be intertwined with the city. In Dayton, we have a right to our “Wrights.”) (Another part of the base was given to the state of Ohio in the early 1960s to become what today is Wright State University. The base traces its history back to the original aviation researchers, Dayton brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright, who perfected piloted flight in 1904-05 over the nearby 84-acre Huffman Prairie.īy 1948, what had been Wright Field and Patterson Field were brought together into one sprawling base. Many airplanes and weapons systems are designed, developed, acquired and perfected at Wright Patt, or that formative process is overseen from Wright-Patt. And the Greene County base is inarguably the most important employer in the Dayton area. It also is, with some 27,000 civilian and military employees, site of Ohio’s largest employer in one locale.ĭepending on whom you ask, WPAFB is the most important Air Force base in the world.
Air Force base and home of the Air Force’s logistics, supply and research efforts.
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