Arvin = brand of Noblitt-Sparks Industries Inc., Columbus, Indiana, USA:

Vertretung Schweiz: Telion AG; Zürich. Auto-Radios

In 1919 Q.G. Noblitt started the Indianapolis Air Pump Company which was incorporated in 1921 as the "Indianapolis Pump and Tube Company". Owners Q.G. Noblitt, Frank H. Sparks and Albert Redmond who pooled $ 3000 and leased an empty grocery store off Kentucky Avenue in Indianapolis. In 1923, Noblitt and Sparks bought out Redmond and moved the company to Greenwood in Johnson County. By that time, the company was selling the Arvin Heater as a big seller because most cars were bought without heaters. The Arvin heater was named after Richard "Hood" Arvin, a traveling salesman who built and patented the original heater. Noblitt and Sparks bought Arvin's interest in the heater and kept the name; it was short, easy to pronounce and showed up at the beginning of most alphabetical directories.
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In 1925 they were on 17th Street on the corner to Pensilvania Ave. During 1927 they changed the name to "Noblitt-Sparks Industries Incorporated" for the manufacture of automobile parts - or created a separate company with this name. Noblitt, a Bartholomew County native, bought out Sparks in 1929, and in 1931 the company moved its headquarters and most of its manufacturing facilities to Columbus Indiana.
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Noblitt-Sparks Industries Inc.began making automobile radios in 1933 and by 1934 was producing radios for the home. They also made radios for Sears which were sold under the Silvertone brand name. But Noblitt-Sparks was not the only supplyer for brand Silvertone which belonged to Sears.
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In 1950, Noblitt-Sparks changed its name to Arvin Industries, Inc. Then at Location 17th & Central
Columbus, Indiana. In 2000, Arvin Meritor, Inc., a leading global automotive supplier, is created by the merger of Meritor Automotive Inc., and Arvin Industries Inc.