parnass@ihu1h.UUCP (Bob Parnass, AJ9S) (11/05/84)
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Westinghouse Headlights in Sylvania Boxes
In the span of 6 weeks, I bought 2 replacement headlights
for my Chevy Blazer from 2 different auto parts stores.
Each headlight was boxed in identical, sealed Sylvania
boxes, and cost about $4.00.
- One box contained a lamp with the Sylvania name in
raised letters on the glass lens.
- The other box contained a lamp with the Westinghouse
name in raised letters on the lens, and Sylvania stam-
ped in ink on the rear.
Both lamps are of the same general replacement type (and
model number), but have different lens and filament struc-
tures. The one marked Sylvania is brighter!
One of the store clerks claimed this is common; three brands
of lamps are often mixed among three different brand boxes.
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Bob Parnass, Bell Telephone Laboratories - ihnp4!ihu1h!parnass - (312)979-5414 hrs@houxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) (11/07/84)
The lamp divisions of both Sylvania and Westinghouse were taken over by North American Philips. Thus both headlights were really made by the same company! By the way in consumer electronics, Magnavox, Sylvania and Philco are all North American Philips.
evan@homxa.UUCP (M.GREENSTEIN) (11/30/84)
I spent a year working for GE at Nela Park in Seal Beam and Quartz Engineering back during the early 70's. During that time, seal beam lamps were being manufactured by GE in their Lexington, Kentucky Lamp Plant under their own name and under the Atlas name. There was no difference in design or quality of the two lamps. I suspect that Westinghouse is manufacturing lamps for Sylvania or maybe the other way around. I know for a fact that GE had not tooled up for the square headlamps when they first came out and ended up buying lamps from Guide which is part of Delco and hence General Motors. Also, at Lexington, the GE lamps were being boxed for retail sales under the names of several major oil companies (Texaco & Shell).