Sawney Beane wrote:

An American can save money by buying unfamiliar foreign brands of
Edison-base bulbs. They may be more troublesome than the familiar
brands.

Bwhahahahahahaha

GEC bulbs used to be manufactured at the Ediswan factory in Leicester
(UK) and exported to the USA. Nowadays they are made in China.

What you are revealing is the usual parochial American belief that
anything "American" must be better than anything "foreign". And too dumb
to realise that most manufactured "American" goods now come from Mexico,
Taiwan and China.