Delco Remy Division - Non-Ferrous Foundry

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World War Two Product Documents
The Delco-Remy Non-Ferrous Foundry (Plant 7)

This page added 5-18-2020.

The tables below consolidates information given in the five-page paper below.

Delco-Remy Non-Ferrous Foundry World War Two Timeline
Date	Action	Comments
8-1940	Delco-Remy announced it would build an aluminum foundry in Anderson. This would become the last Plant 7.
10-10-1940	First seven supervisors named for the new plant.
12-10-1940	Plant 7 dedicated.	A.G. Glaser from Muncie was the contractor. His employees worked 24 hours a day in September and October, 1940 in order to build the plant in just over three months.
Unknown dates	The seven supervisors spent three weeks at the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in Cleveland, OH which was was already casting parts for Allison. Allison had it make a duplicate set of molds for Delco-Remy.
2-1-1941	Scheduled date for first production. This date was not met due to late engineering changes.
3-10-1941	First part cast. This was the gear case cover.
3-12-1941	Sample submitted to Allison for approval.	Both Allison and Cadillac approved this part. Cadillac was building the gear reducer for Allison.
9-1-1941	All patterns had been received.
Unknown dates	A magnesium foundry was installed that used part of the plant.
11-16-1941	First magnesium samples produced.
2-1-1942	Magnesium foundry converted to aluminum to provide the necessary capacity for castings to Allison.	The original foundry ran large parts, and the new one ran medium and small parts.
8-1942	One million pounds of castings shipped in 18 months.	Delco-Remy provided 50% of Allison's castings.

The document in this section is courtesy of the Madison County Historical Society in Anderson, IN.

This Allison V-1710 is on display at the Indiana War Memorial in downtown Indianapolis. The two nose house castings and the intake manifolds on top of the engine were produced in DR Plant 7. The same can be said for the heads that are painted black and the gray engine block below it. The valve cover that has been removed but is just visible on opposite side was also a Delco-Remy casting. Many of the internal castings not in view were also produced in Plant 7 and then machined in Plant 10. Author's photo.

This is most likely a photo taken in Plant 7 where the Allison V-1710 cylinder heads are being de-burred. In order for these heads to be properly machined, they would need to be set up on machine tools in Plant 10 to obtain the required tolerances. Note the nose housings on the conveyor behind the middle operator. Photo courtesy of the Madison County Historical Society.