Amtorg Trading Corporation records series, 1928-1938.

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Amtorg Trading Corporation records series, 1928-1938.

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The Amtorg Trading Corporation records series is composed of three subseries. The most significant of the subseries in volume and scope, the 1928-1938 records subseries (29.4 cubic ft. and 1 oversize box), Acc. 199, documents the working relationship between Ford Motor Company and Amtorg Trading Corporation, the official Soviet organ for trade with the United States. It is made up of files from the Ford Motor Company Accounting Department. Types of materials in the collection include contracts and agreements, blueprints of machinery, and photographs and drawings of Autostroy automobiles, with the bulk being orders and related correspondence. Within the collection can be found information on procedures, ordering, shipping, accounting, labor, subcontractors (including Ford automobile and Fordson tractor plants at Dagenham, England, and Cork, Ireland), and types and costs of equipment and material. The section on ordering, the largest within the subseries, concerns orders made by Autostroy to Ford Motor Company primarily for automobile and tractor parts, but also for machinery, equipment, tools, dies, parts drawings, and engraving masters. Some of the material relating to labor is in German. The 1929-1935 records subseries (0.4 cubic ft.), Acc. 531, is made up of agreements, correspondence, weekly reports, and summary data from Ford Motor Company's financial dealings with Amtorg Trading Corporation. Correspondents include Accounting Department heads W.E. Carnegie and C.L. Martindale, Autostroy president A.L. Oleinikoff, and others. The 1931-1932 records subseries (0.8 cubic ft), Acc. 632, is made up of financial documents pertaining to the Amtorg Trading Corporation as prepared by W.E. Carnegie and his staff in the Ford Accounting Department. It consists of two ledgers, arranged chronologically, containing weekly financial summaries listing Amtorg purchase order numbers, Ford Motor Company work order numbers, and dollar amounts. Scattered throughout the records series is a minuscule amount of Russian-language material; most of the collection is in English.

30.6 cubic ft. and 1 oversize box.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Amtorg Trading Corporation, established in 1924 and based in New York, was the Soviet Union's official agency for trade with the United States. It was later discovered that Amtorg also served as a front for Soviet espionage. In its capacity as a trade agency, Amtorg acted as a liaison between Ford Motor Company and Autostroy, the Soviet body in charge of automotive plant construction (and along with it, its governing agency, the Supreme Economic Council). Ford Motor Company was involved with Amt...

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