Apex Electric Manufacturing Company

Incorporated in 1911, the Apex Electric Manufacturing Corporation initially produced automobile parts. In 1925, it entered the radio manufacturing business, only to merge two years later with several other companies to have access to the costly RCA patent license. Apex, Case, Sentinel, Slagle, and Workrite formed the United States Electric Corporation - Case, which failed soon after. Then in 1928, Apex, Case and two others formed the United States Radio & Television Corporation, which continued to produce under the Apex brand. In 1932, the company merged into General Household Utilities. After struggling for several years, radio production was stopped in 1937 and the Marion plant was sold off.