V-M Corporation was founded in June 1944 by Walter Miller.
In 1977 the company declared bankruptcy. The following brief history was written by V-M Corporation President Victor Miller for the January 1996 V-M 'Collector's Voice' Newsletter: 'Fast Forward' ..... Through a few high spots of V-M Corporation's history! It is inspiring to see the effort Gary is putting into keeping the products and legends of V-M going this many years after our bankruptcy in 1977. I consider it a privilege to contribute in some small way to this tribute to the dedication, skill, loyalty, and decades of hard work of employees, suppliers, distributors, dealers, and independent service centers who made up the V-M action team. A special 'thank you' is due the loyal manufacturers who kept including our record changers and/or tape transport mechanisms in their products - and to the consumers who bought those products as well as items sold under our own name. Benton Harbor was the scene of record changer manufacture before V-M Corporation existed. My father Walter Miller, was an electrical engineer building up New Products Corporation, a custom die cast operation, through the heart of the depression of the 1930's. He had also started Modern Plastics Corporation, a custom plastic molding company in 1937. The reputation of those two companies for quality, service, and value led to his being approached to produce record changers for the blossoming phonograph market. Commencing in 1940, New Products Corporation produced the Erwood 'blade' type record changer. Some 2,300 of these cumbersome units were being shipped daily by the time World War II cut off all consumer product manufacture (shortly after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor). 'Fast Forward' ..... Through a few high spots of V-M Corporation's history! It is inspiring to see the effort Gary is putting into keeping the products and legends of V-M going this many years after our bankruptcy in 1977. I consider it a privilege to contribute in some small way to this tribute to the dedication, skill, loyalty, and decades of hard work of employees, suppliers, distributors, dealers, and independent service centers who made up the V-M action team. A special 'thank you' is due the loyal manufacturers who kept including our record changers and/or tape transport mechanisms in their products - and to the consumers who bought those products as well as items sold under our own name. Benton Harbor was the scene of record changer manufacture before V-M Corporation existed. My father Walter Miller, was an electrical engineer building up New Products Corporation, a custom die cast operation, through the heart of the depression of the 1930's. He had also started Modern Plastics Corporation, a custom plastic molding company in 1937. The reputation of those two companies for quality, service, and value led to his being approached to produce record changers for the blossoming phonograph market. Commencing in 1940, New Products Corporation produced the Erwood 'blade' type record changer. Some 2,300 of these cumbersome units were being shipped daily by the time World War II cut off all consumer product manufacture (shortly after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor).