RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc.

Camden, New Jersey-based American record company (active 1934-1943). A subsidiary of Radio Corporation of America, the RCA Manufacturing Co. Inc. was founded in mid-December 1934 as the result of the merger of RCA Victor Company, Inc. of Camden, NJ, with RCA Radiotron Company, Inc. of Harrison, NJ. The new, combined company was "engaged in the manufacture and sale of a wide variety of products related to radio communication, talking picture equipment, radio tubes and sets, phonographs, records, and many other electrical goods." The company owned three record pressing plants: RCA Records Pressing Plant, Camden (founded by its predecessor, the Victor Talking Machine Co.) RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis (from August 1939) RCA Records Pressing Plant, Hollywood (from ca. 1941) The company name "RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc." was authorized for use on record labels in late April 1935. It first appears on the redesigned Scroll Label (without the VE initial at the top) in early Summer 1935, then on the Ring or Circular Label. The Ring Label version with patent #1637544 was used between Fall 1937 and late 1941 (with brass instead of gold lettering from mid- to late 1941); the version without patent #1637544 was used between late 1941 and July 1943. In mid-June 1943, a further change of the company name to RCA Victor Division Of Radio Corporation Of America was approved to be effective with all September 1943 releases, but it seems to have been instituted as early as late July 1943.