Papers concerning General Motors Corporation, 1915-1954.

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Papers concerning General Motors Corporation, 1915-1954.

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P. S. du Pont's General Motor files include documentation on G.M. - Du Pont stock transfers. There are minutes of G.M. board of directors meetings, proxy, finance and executive committees. Records document the 1918 amalgamation of the Chevrolet and General Motors Corporations as well as G.M.'s 1920 purchase of the Fisher Body Corporation. There are also papers describing the organization of the G.M. Acceptance Corporation in 1926 and the executive bonus and retirement plans that were put into place in the late 1920s. Operating department records include materials on research and development - particularly experiments on the copper cooled engine. There are also records on the reorganization that Pierre du Pont put into place at G.M. in the early 1920s.

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