With the winding down of orders for transformers and reactors following World War II and the Korean War a major manufacturer, Thermador (having the very popular "Seven Leagues Ahead" Trademark) sold their Electronics Division to several of the senior employees just as the race to space was ramping up. This new employee owned company Spatron became an integral part of the space community in Southern California. Hiring electrical design engineers from the now famous program "Operation Paperclip".  Spatron was on the leading edge of designing and manufacturing in the High Reliability SPACE marketplace. Many Department of Defense quality standards were put into place during this time. With an engineering, quality and production team that became famous within the space community efforts were made to spend time on implementing, writing and standardizing the many space quality and manufacturing procedures.