Borg-Warner Corporation Gear O' Gram magazines

In 1928, the Borg-Warner Corporation merged with three Midwestern auto part manufacturers, including Warner Gear of Muncie, Indiana. This company expanded quickly and the company’s annual sales rose from about $50 million in 1929 to over $600 million by the late 1950s when Borg-Warner became a leading manufacturer of automatic transmissions. The company also invested in the industrial plastics business. In 1978, Borg-Warner began to build a large security services business; during the 1990s, this operation, known as Borg-Warner Security and later as Burns International Services, spun off and was soon bought by a Swedish corporation. By the late 1990s, BorgWarner Inc. had again become an auto parts specialist, with about $2.5 billion in annual sales and about 1,300 employees in the Chicago, Illinois area.

The Gear-O-Gram newsletter, produced by the Warner Gear Division of the Borg-Warner Corporation, stated in its inaugural issue, entitled Give Me a Name, "the primary objective of our publication is to promote acquaintanceship between employees, and to stimulate the interest of each employee in his work and in the organization of which he is a part." The newsletter, which was "published for and by the employees of Borg-Warner" began in May 1944 and covered diverse topics such as the company's bowling league records, retirements, former employees in the military, community involvment and automobile manufacture and use.