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News Events WAIglobal is proud to announce it has finalized the acquisition of Lester Catalog  !

WAIglobal is proud to announce it has finalized the acquisition of Lester Catalog !

Lester is the industry standard catalog, part number and information service provider to the rebuilding industry. Under this arrangement Lester Catalog will continue to serve the Electrical Remanufacturing community with its electronic and printed catalogs, as it has since 1941. The addition of the considerable resources of WAI Global to the Lester Catalog efforts will significantly enhance the overall Lester offering. 

This merger of resources will provide the most thorough and complete database and cataloging solution available to our industry. In addition, the combined WAI Global and Lester team will focus on producing catalogs outside of North America including Mexico, China, Europe and South America. The combined resources and years of experiences of WAI Global and Lester Catalog Company will help us to furnish the latest information on complete units and component parts for Automotive, Medium-Heavy Duty, Off-road, Agriculture, Marine, Power Sports and Power Equipment. We welcome Lester Catalog to our family



About Lester Catalogs


Serving the Automotive Electric Aftermarket since 1930

Lester Catalog was began in the 1930’s by Harry Lester. At that time he found that he needed an application catalog to sell generator and starter armatures that were produced by his company, Champion Armature in Los Angeles. Together with Fred Barton, they developed the first application catalog for this type of product.

In 1941, Harry co-founded the Automotive Parts Rebuilders Association with a group of his peers. Because of his many industry contacts, the catalog that Harry and Fred first produced for armatures, became widely used by other armature rewinders. At this early date their catalog was already becoming an industry standard.

The last catalog that they produced for armatures was published in 1942. Many companies were now rebuilding generators and starters for sale on an exchange basis. A new industry of remanufacturing was emerging. Through the following decades Lester catalog produced catalogs for alternators, generators, starters, armatures, rotors, voltage regulators, water pumps, carburetors, clutches, smog pumps, distributors and brakes.

In the 1960’s Lester Catalog was acquired by the Klapper family, who owned several remanufacturing related businesses in the Los Angeles area. They continued to produce Lester Catalogs until 1997 when control of the Lester system was acquired by Rebuilder Services, Inc., our parent company.

Due to the decline in remanufacturing of some of the product lines, we now focus strictly on alternators and starters and their related components. In addition to application catalogs we now publish specifications, interchanges, photo guides, bills of material and more.

 

The Lester Catalog system has been embraced by all sections of the remanufacturing industry, including remanufacturers, auto electricians, parts suppliers and retailers. We provide data in both printed and electronic formats. We support AAIA data structure and produce many custom publications for manufacturing and marketing functions.

 


Lester Catalogs

http://www.lestercatalog.com




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