Who is behind Ethyl Corporation?
Shows documented founders, leaders, board members, funders and owners.
Not who made decisions, or why.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
On the record
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Founded by
- General Motors founded 1924 through its chemical company, with Standard Oil of New Jersey Primary record 123
- Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) founded 1924 joint venture with General Motors Primary record 12
Led by
- Charles F. Kettering head of 1925 President Primary record 2
Owners
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E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
owns a stake in
as of 1940
Primary record
24
Howard said in 1925 that du Pont was part of Ethyl only “in an indirect way”; the Court in 1940 named General Motors and du Pont as owners of the other half, with no split given.
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Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)
owns a stake in
50%, as of 1940
Primary record
4
As the Supreme Court recorded in 1940: one-half of the capital stock.
Proof 4 sources
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The Secret History of Lead (Jamie Lincoln Kitman, The Nation, March 2000), The Nation, 20 Mar 2000.
Scholarship & press
the oil company (one of twenty-seven companies formed by the 1911 breakup of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust) and the automobile company formed a joint venture, which they called the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation.
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Proceedings of a Conference to Determine Whether or Not There Is a Public Health Question in the Manufacture, Distribution, or Use of Tetraethyl Lead Gasoline (Public Health Bulletin No. 158), U.S. Public Health Service, Treasury Department, 1925.
Primary record
which includes the General Motors Corporation and the Standard Oil Co. (N. J.)
President, Ethyl Gasoline Corporation
in an indirect way
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Statement to the Committee of Enquiry on Lead Ethyl Petrol, by Graham Edgar, Director of Research, Ethyl Gasoline Corporation (addendum of March 1928), Ethyl Gasoline Corporation (copy via ToxicDocs), 1928.
Self-published
Ethyl Gasoline Corporation (formerly the General Motors Chemical Co
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Ethyl Gasoline Corporation v. United States, 309 U.S. 436 (1940), Supreme Court of the United States (text via Cornell LII), 25 Mar 1940.
Primary record
The remainder is owned by General Motors Corporation and E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company.
Among these is the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey which owns one-half of the capital stock of the appellant.
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