OUR PRODUCT MANUFACTURERS — KENTUCKY

The Ken-Rad Corporation, Incorporated, A Division Of Ken-Rad Tube & Lamp Corporation, Owensboro, Kentucky owes it's inception to the Kentucky Electrical Lamp Company which began operations at 817 Lewis Street during February 1899. The company was sold to Roy Burlew in 1918 who also founded the Kentucky Radio Corporation with just 6 employees later shortened to Ken-Rad. Burlew grew the company significantly as the lamp plant continued to be profitable with Burlew expanded the product range to include the manufacturing of valves for radios in 1922 and by 1930, the company had expanded to open plants in Bowling Green, Tell City & Huntingburg, Indiana....