Corporation to manufacture cathode ray tubes and was purchased by Philco in 1947. The first Philco-Ford car radios were manufactured there in 1964.
The Lansdale plant audio engineering group moved to near-by Blue Bell in December 1975 and to Willow Grove, a northern suburb of Philadelphia, in the spring of 1978. The whole plant was torn down in September 1994 while its facilities moved two miles away. The brand-new manufacturing formed the foundation of what it became to be known as Ford Electronics and Refrigeration Corporation, or FERCO for short. (Before that, Philco-Ford went through a couple of name changes in the late 1970s: Aeronutronic Ford; Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation, or FACC.)