| | 961 | Title: | Ford Motor Company Military Vehicle Proposal Records, 1964-1971  | | | | Accession: | 74.1.1158 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company | | | | Abstract: | Consists largely or photographs with some manuals or brochures, correspondence and specifications and one mock-up scale model (THF Object ID 74.215.1) of military vehicles designed for use by U.S. armed forces, but apparently never accepted. Includes the following vehicles: M-151, tanks, tactical trucks, utility vehicles, self-propelled howitzer, 1/4 ton load carrying device, Cummins Diesels, Fruehauf military products, Canadian Dynatrac, gas turbine engine. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 962 | Title: | Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, and Thomas Edison Related Audio Recordings, circa 1929-1934 | | | | Accession: | 74.300.1147 | | | | Creator: | Vincent Voice Library | | | | Abstract: | The Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, and Thomas Edison Related Audio Recordings contains two audiocassettes, with two reproduced recordings on each, from the Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State University. The first cassette contains a speech by Henry Ford while he was campaigning for Herbert Hoover in 1932, in which Hoover is compared to Abraham Lincoln, and Edsel Ford predicting a good sales year for Ford cars in 1934-1935. The second audiocassette features Thomas Edison delivering a speech at Light's Golden Jubilee in Greenfield Village in 1929 and an undated speech in when Henry Ford praises McGuffey Readers and William Holmes McGuffey. The collection also includes printouts from the MSU Libraries catalog describing each recording. Extent: 0.2 cubic ft. (1 box). The collection is open for research and use copies of the recordings are available. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 963 | Title: | Ford Motor Company Henry Ford Patent Records, 1923-1964 | | | | Accession: | 74.300.1170 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company | | | | Abstract: | The records consist of patent applications, primarily assigned to Henry Ford and dated 1923-1950, that were issued or in some cases either never filed or abandoned. At least one of the applications was assigned to Edsel B. Ford. Material includes application forms, drawings, photographs, internal and external communications, sketches, and notes. A small amount of the material (approximately 0.25 cubic ft. and dated 1931-1964) consists of patent and trade mark information related to the Ford Motor Company Johansson Gage Block Division. | | | | Subjects: | Ford Motor Company | Patents | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 964 | Title: | Ford Rotunda Lantern Slides series, 1948-1962 | | | | Accession: | 74.300.1182 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department | | | | Abstract: | The Ford Rotunda was used for many purposes, including exhibit space and office space, from 1934 until it was destroyed by a fire in 1962. The Ford Rotunda Lantern Slides series contains glass lantern slides documenting Ford Motor Company's activities at the Rotunda building. | | | | Subjects: | Ford, Henry, 1917-1987. | Kahn, Albert Eugene, 1912-1979. | Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983 | Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, 1909- | Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department. | Ford Motor Company--Buildings. | Ford Motor Company--Tours. | Ford Rotunda (Dearborn, Mich.) | Ford Motor Company. Rouge River Plant | Ford Motor Company--Anniversaries, etc. | Ford Motor Company--Exhibitions. | Century 21 Exposition (1962: Seattle, Wash.) | Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934: Chicago, Ill.) | Exhibition buildings | Exhibit booths | Automobile industry and trade | Rotundas | Tourism | Horticultural exhibitions | Celebrities | Dearborn (Mich.)--Buildings. | Lantern slides | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 965 | Title: | Educational Affairs Distribution Section general files, 1946-1960 | | | | Accession: | 741 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company. Office of Public Relations. Educational Affairs Department. | | | | Abstract: | Contains releases, serial and non-serial imprints, photographs, manuals, catalogs, specifications, photographs, etc., which are of historical nature and no longer being distributed to the public in answer to the general requests. For the most part, these files duplicate Accession 536 materials, since they represent the distribution supply left when the Public Relations Files were closed in August 1955. Since almost all of this material represents bulk duplication, the files were weeded, and 4 document boxes of Non-Serial imprints, 1 box of serial imprints, and 17 document boxes of manuals, catalogs, specifications, ads, press packets, etc., were retained to augment our files. 14 document boxes of photographs retained to augment our supply. | | | | Subjects: | Ford Motor Company. Office of Public Relations. Educational Affairs Department. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 967 | Title: | Holmes Brown records subseries, 1953-1955 | | | | Accession: | 746 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company. Ford Division. | | | | Abstract: | The Holmes Brown records subseries contains clippings, correspondence, Ward's Automotive Reports, and a survey on news reports during March 1955. The clippings cover events at American Motors, Chrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and other domestic automobile companies. The correspondence is incoming correspondence to Holmes Brown from regional public relations managers. | | | | Subjects: | Brown, Holmes, 1914- | Ford Motor Company. Ford Division. | Ford Motor Company--Public relations. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 970 | Title: | Ford Motor Company Subsidiary Financial Records, 1921-1932 | | | | Accession: | 749 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company. | | | | Abstract: | Financial records of numerous companies which were subsidiaries of Ford Motor, or in which Henry Ford had an interest. Includes financial statements, check registers, journal vouchers, ledger cards, etc. A general ledger for advertising costs in various operations in Connecticut giving the advertising costs. Ford Motor Sales Co., Park Central Motors Service, Inc., D. W. Flint and Seabosrd Properties records are just a few of the companies represented in this group. | | | | Subjects: | Ford Motor Company | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 971 | Title: | Companhia Ford Industrial do Brasil records, 1920-1950 | | | | Accession: | 74 | | | | Creator: | Companhia Ford Industrial do Brasil. | | | | Abstract: | The records are comprised of material relating to operations of the Ford Motor Company rubber plantations at Fordlandia and Belterra, Brazil. Accounting files include costs, audits, employee data, inventories, progress reports, material listings, and general financial records. Also included are medical reports, photographs, and Russell Roberge correspondence and reports. Roberge headed the Ford Motor Company Foreign Operations Department from 1920 through much of the 1940s. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 973 | Title: | Enrico Fermi Atomic Power Plant Records, 1952-1975 | | | | Accession: | 75.2 | | | | Creator: | Detroit Edison Company | | | | Abstract: | The records describe the design, construction, operation, and decommission of one of the earliest power generating nuclear reactors in the United States. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 974 | Title: | Military Vehicles Service Manuals Collection, 1940-1945 | | | | Accession: | 750 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company Archives | | | | Abstract: | The Military Vehicles Service Manuals collection is an intentionally assembled collection consisting of service and operator's manuals for military vehicles and equipment produced by Ford Motor Company during World War II. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 975 | Title: | Ferguson Tractor Records, 1939-1947 | | | | Accession: | 751 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company | | | | Abstract: | Ferguson Tractor Data. Photostats-no original documents. Includes correspondence, profit and loss statements, price data, pricing schedules, price comparisons, discount schedules, sales, profit volume comparison charts, statements of income, etc. 1939-1947. | | | | Subjects: | Ford Motor Company | Ferguson tractors | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 976 | Title: | Rouge Plant Accounting Department Cost records, 1921-1937 | | | | Accession: | 752 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company | | | | Abstract: | Mlscel1aneous Records, including car and body casts, Lincoln chassis minor assembly data, etc. from Rouge Plant Accounting Dept. (Cost). Includes H.P. Trim Assembly costs; Lincoln Chassis costs, 1937; special assembly costs, 1929; estimated costs, 1934; by-product sales, 1929-1932; overhead rates, 1925-1926; Rouge and H.P. general overhead, 1930; B building 1932; final car costs 1928-1930; Lincoln car costs 1931-1932; 1921-1937. | | | | Subjects: | Ford Motor Company | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 977 | Title: | Tank School Manuals, 1943 | | | | Accession: | 753 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company | | | | Abstract: | Tank School Manuals. The entire carton contains de-duplications of a single manual, "Restricted Instructor's Outline for Student Guide Ford Tank Engine School, Model GAA V8 Engine", prepared by Ford Motor in cooperation with Ordinance Dept. of U.S. Army, July, 1943. July 1943. | | | | Subjects: | Ford Motor Company | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 978 | Title: | Ford Motor Company Aircraft Literature, Blueprints, and Photographs Collection, 1938-1945 | | | | Accession: | 754 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company | | | | Abstract: | Consists of correspondence, catalogs, manuals, promotional brochures, technical publications, scientific journal articles, test reports, and design drawings related to the design and production of aircraft and aircraft components. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 979 | Title: | Pratt and Whitney Field Service Handbook Records, 1944-1945 | | | | Accession: | 755 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company | | | | Abstract: | Pratt & Whitney Field Service Handbook materials. Numerical parts lists; assembly parts, photographs and related technical data. Blueprints, calibration charts, assembly and sub-assembly procedures, etc. Proof sheets for manuals and catalogs. Photoraphic negatives, engineering drawing prints for compilation of Pratt & Whitney Field Service manuals. | | | | Subjects: | Ford Motor Company | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 980 | Title: | William John Cameron 1922-1945 Records Series | | | | Accession: | 756 | | | | Creator: | Ford Motor Company | | | | Abstract: | The series contains transcripts of the Aaron Sapiro vs. Henry Ford and the Dearborn Publishing Company court case in 1927; Greenfield Village chapel talks from 1931 to 1934 and 1943 to 1945; speeches given by Cameron before various organizations in rough draft, typewritten, and published form; and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about Cameron from 1934 to 1940. | | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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