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Not much out there on these oddities. From what I can find, they are Dale wire wound resistors. Dale was bought by Vishay in 1984.
From the Vishay webpage: "During 1984 Dale Electronics came on the market, and Vishay began its first major acquisition spree, growing its core resistor business. Dale, a subsidiary of the Lionel Company, was the largest wire-wound resistor maker in the world outside Japan. Lionel had bought Dale years ago to produce the transformers it needed for its model trains, and had left Dale alone to grow into a giant. With annual sales of around $120 million, Dale was more than twice the size of Vishay. Although companies such as Du Pont, Emerson, and Dynamics Corporation of America were interested, Vishay bought 50 percent of the company in 1985, acquiring the rest of the shares in 1988. In making the purchase, Vishay formed a subsidiary, Dale Holdings, Inc., which owned all the common stock of Dale Electronics."
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Not much out there on these oddities. From what I can find, they are Dale wire wound resistors. Dale was bought by Vishay in 1984.
From the Vishay webpage: "During 1984 Dale Electronics came on the market, and Vishay began its first major acquisition spree, growing its core resistor business. Dale, a subsidiary of the Lionel Company, was the largest wire-wound resistor maker in the world outside Japan. Lionel had bought Dale years ago to produce the transformers it needed for its model trains, and had left Dale alone to grow into a giant. With annual sales of around $120 million, Dale was more than twice the size of Vishay. Although companies such as Du Pont, Emerson, and Dynamics Corporation of America were interested, Vishay bought 50 percent of the company in 1985, acquiring the rest of the shares in 1988. In making the purchase, Vishay formed a subsidiary, Dale Holdings, Inc., which owned all the common stock of Dale Electronics."
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