Libbey Owens Ford

The Libbey Owens Ford Company (LOF) was a producer of automotive glass both for original equipment manufacturers and for replacement use, as well as specialty glass products used in domestic and high-rise buildings; also for aircraft, tanks and locomotives. The company's headquarters and main factories were located in Toledo, Ohio, with a large float glass plant at Lathrop, California. In April 1986, LOF sold its glass business and name to the Pilkington Group, a multinational glass manufacturer headquartered in the United Kingdom. The remaining three business units of the company, Aeroquip, Vickers, and Sterling, were retained and the holding company was renamed TRINOVA Corporation. The Sterling business was later sold and in the late 1990s, the company adopted its two leading business unit names, and continued as Aeroquip-Vickers, Inc., until being absorbed by Eaton Corporation in 2000.

In 1928, LOF was the first company to produce automotive laminated safety glass.

[http://utoledo.edu/library/canaday/guidepages/business.html LOF company history, from LOF records] (Link to the University of Toledo, Ohio's Ward M. Canaday Center.)

External links

* [http://www.toledosattic.org/details_item.asp?key=496&did=84 Libbey-Owens-Ford During WWII]