The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-01-25
Charges Plot To
Sell Counterfeit
Automobile Parts

Washington (LPA)-Bought any
automotive ignition points or parts
lately-Auto Lite, Delco- Remy OF
Ford? You sure they're the gen.
uine article?
They may not be, according to a
complaint issued by the Federal
Trade Commission against nine
corporations and 35 individuals
The ETC says that two outfits are
manufacturing such parts and sell
ing them ''in bulk, unstamped and
bearing no Identification marks.
with full knowledge" that their
customers stamp, label, package
and sell them as original Auto-Lite
Delco- -Remy and Ford parts. The
two are Tungsten Contact Manu-
featuring Co. and Union Electrical
Parts Co., both of North Bergen,
N. J.
ETC accuses of so branding,
packaging and reselling these pro-
ducts, the following: Graphited
Lubricants Co., New York; De-
Perty's Ford Parts, East Orange,
N. ]. FTC charges Graphited has
also printed packages and envel-
opes Stimulating the containers of
genuine Auto-Lite, Delco- Remy and
Ford products, and selling them to
other respondents for use in pack
aging the counterfeit products.
Those accused of reselling the
counterfeit products with know
ledge of the misbranding, and
otherwise aiding and abetting the
deception, are: Livingston Automo-
tive Supply Co., Brooklyn; Crown
Automotive Manufacturing Co.,
Long Island; Bergen Auto Supply
Co., Brooklyn; General Wholesale
Auto Supply Co., Gair & Co., Scott
Adams Co., and L. Feldman Co., all
of Chicago; Bell Auto Supply Co.,
Boston; Harry A. Spatz, and Berk' S
Auto Ignition Co., Reading, Pa;
Missouri Manufacturers Sales Co.,
and Israel A. Kosovitz, Kansas
City; General Accessories & Sup
ply Co., st. Louis; Millard Supply
Co., Kansas City; Mendenhall
Motors, st. Louis; Auto Electric
Service Co., Louisville, KY; Penn
Auto ware Sales, Philadelphia; /;
Martin o. Krupnick, Philadelphia; !;
Alfred Gliksman, Inc, New York; /;
Acme Products Co., New York.
The ETC complaint says Tungs-
ten and Union manufacture igni-
tion parts which "are copies of ori-
ginal and genuine parts of the var
ious automobile manufacturers" 1"
Some, says the ETC, are branded
Union, UE and Tungsten, but
others are unstamped and bear no
Identification. "These parts" says
the FTC complaint, "closely re-
semble the original and genuine
parts and may be readily mistaken
for original and genuine parts"
FTC charges that Tungsten and
Union, when they sell these un-
branded products, "have full know
ledge that these purchasers stamp,
label, package and sell such parts
as original Auto-Lite, Delco- Remy
and Ford parts"
Graphited Lubricants Co., said
the FTC bought bulk quantities of
unbranded ignition parts and as
sembled, branded, packaged and
resold them as original Auto-Lite,
Delco-Remy and Ford parts.
One of the principal distributors
of the products, said the ETC, is
Livingston Automotive Supply Co.,
which sold and delivered Hundreds
of thousands of these counterfeit
ignition parts all over the United
States"
FTC says there has been "a close
business relationship" between of
ficials of Tungsten, Union and
Graphited and that the officers of
Livingston and the individuals op-
Grating as Graphited are business
associates and friends of many
years standing"