Audit reports series, 1928-1946.

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Audit reports series, 1928-1946.

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The Audit reports series, 1928-1946 (0.4 cubic ft.), Acc. 517, is made up of audit reports, correspondence, interdepartmental memoranda (mainly between the Auditing Department and the Accounting Department), and working papers. Subjects and departments covered by the audits include Purchasing Department handling of government contracts, 1945; Dearborn branches and offices, in particular the Dearborn Engineering Laboratory, 1933-1942; domestic branches, 1941-1943; foreign branches, 1928-1946; Henry Ford's Richmond Hill Plantation residence, including expenses, wages paid, and account receivable for rents, 1946; audit summaries for accounts of Edsel B. Ford and other Ford family members, including Mrs. Edsel B. (Eleanor Clay) Ford, Henry Ford II, and Benson Ford, 1942-1943; Rouge River Plant departments, 1940-1946; tractor sales, including a history of the working relationship between Ford Motor Company and Harry Ferguson, Inc. (Sherman-Ferguson Manufacturing Corporation), 1946; and Ford Motor Company subsidiaries, 1933-1946. Subsidiaries audited include the Airplane Plant (Airplane Division), 1933; Dearborn Inn, 1944; Edison Institute, 1945; Children's House, 1944; Henry Ford Trade School, 1940, 1945; Lenawee Co-operative Industries and Washtenaw Co-operative Industries farms, 1934-1935; Oakwood Realty Company, 1946; Springwells Park Subdivision, 1940; Wayside Inn, 1946; and White Hart Inn, 1940. There are also files on rental records including the Blueberry Mine in Marquette County, 1945, and correspondence regarding the Universal Credit Corporation, 1933. Files are arranged alphabetically by subject.

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Dearborn Engineering Laboratory (Dearborn Mich.)

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When Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903, Alexander Y. Malcolmson was elected the Company's first treasurer, but his assistant James Couzens actually managed financial functions. People holding the position of Ford Motor Company treasurer from 1903 to 1955 included Alexander Y. Malcolmson, 1903-1906; James J. Couzens, 1906-1915; Frank L. Klingensmith, 1915-1921; Edsel B Ford, 1921-1943; B. J. Craig, 1943-1946; and L. E. Briggs, 1946-1955. In 1903, the business office was in a small building o...

Oakwood Realty Company.

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Dearborn Inn (Dearborn, Mich.)

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Henry Ford Farms.

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Ferguson-Sherman Manufacturing Co.

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Ford Motor Company. Purchasing Department.

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Henry Ford (Organization)

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Wayside Inn (Sudbury, Mass.)

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Henry Ford Trade School

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Henry Ford believed that a working knowledge of industrial arts was the most practical knowledge a young man could have. To this end, Ford established several schools where he could offer a technical education that would prepare people for work in industry. His first and major trade school was begun in Highland Park, Michigan in 1916 adjacent to Ford Motor Company's Highland Park Plant, opening with six boys and one instructor. Frederick E. Searle was appointed superintendent. Classes not only e...

Ford Motor Company. Rouge River Plant

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Ford, Henry, II, 1917-1987

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For information on the Fords, see an encyclopedia. For information on Cumming see his papers at the Clarke. A copy of the book by Bennett is also available at the Clarke. From the description of Correspondence, 1967. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 43884289 ...

Ford, Benson, 1919-1978.

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Benson Ford, the second son of Edsel Bryan and Eleanor Clay Ford and grandson of Henry and Clara Ford, worked for Ford Motor Company in a number of different capacities before becoming a vice-president, director of its Lincoln-Mercury Division, and chairman of the company's Dealer Policy Board. Active in civic and community affairs, he was at various times a member of the board of trustees of the Edison Institute (now The Henry Ford), Seaboard Properties Company, Henry Ford Hospital, among other...

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Universal Credit Corporation.

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Harry Ferguson Inc.

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White Hart Inn.

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Ford Motor Company. Auditing Department.

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Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943

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Edsel Ford's interests beyond automobiles and the automobile industry were broad and varied. He was president of the Arts Commission of the Detroit Institute of Arts, a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, and a trustee for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc. He was a member of the Isle Royal National Park Commission, chairman of the board of the Detroit University School, and a director of the Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit. He was active in Ford Motor Company educatio...

Ford, Eleanor, 1896-

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