Ships Salvage records subseries, 1926.

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Ships Salvage records subseries, 1926.

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The Ships Salvage records subseries, 1926 (2 cubic ft.), Acc. 546, documents the purchase and the dismantling of the "199 Ships" purchased by Ford Motor Company from the U.S. Navy after World War I and the daily progress of the ships' scrapping operations. The records, arranged in rough chronological order, consist of daily correspondence of the staff in the Purchasing Department under Wibel overseeing the purchase, transport, and scrapping process of the ships. Included is correspondence between staffs of the Purchasing Department and Ships Salvage Operations staff, as well as a Power Certificate Distributions Ledger for the Rouge River Plant and the Highland Park Plant, 1929-1931 Although the Ships Salvage Program ran from 1926 through 1928, the scope of this records subseries is primarily the year 1926.

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Ford Motor Company. Rouge River Plant

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Ford Motor Company. Purchasing Department.

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In August 1925, Ford Motor Company signed a contract with the United States Shipping Board to purchase cargo ships originally ordered by the U. S. Shipping Board to meet war-time needs as the country entered World War I. After the war, thousands of the ships were sold off until 1921, when a world-wide economic downturn scuttled shipping growth. Over the next three years, the remaining ships were docked in harbors, rivers, and bays from Texas to New York. In 1924, the U. S. Shipping Board authori...

United States. Shipping Board

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Wibel, Albert M., 1886-1965.

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Ford motor company

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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...