[belval]

Glad I am not the only one, for some reason I assumed it was Japanese. I think it's because the name really doesn't sound American at all.

[yborg]

According to company legend, the name was a combination of "Motor" and "Victrola"; the company founder Paul Galvin made some of the earliest car radios, and the Victrola brand name was well-known at the time for its phonographs.