Argus was an American maker of cameras and photographic products, founded in 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The International Radio Corporation was founded in 1931 by local businessman William E. Brown Jr., George J. Burke (who was a judge at the Nuremberg trials),[1] and Charles Albert Vershoor.

[2] IRC started out selling a line of radios, developed by Verschoor, that had a body made out of molded plastic instead of wood.

[2] In August 1942, the company stopped all domestic production and focused on producing military optics and radio equipment for the armed forces during World War II.

[3] By the end of World War II, Argus had won the Army-Navy “E” award five times for “excellence in design and manufacture of war-related material".