Papers of John G. Perrin, 1884-1967 (bulk 1910-1930).

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Papers of John G. Perrin, 1884-1967 (bulk 1910-1930).

Includes material on air cooled, single sleeve valve engines, American Standards Assn., engineering drafting standards, Liberty 12 aircraft engines, Lozier Motor Co., Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Society of Automotive Engineers, Stevens-Duryea, Inc., Sunbeam Arab engines, Timken-Detroit Axle Co., Willys-Overland, Ltd. Notable correspondents are: George A. Burwell; Ray S. Deering; James Couzens; Albert Kahn; Henry A. Lozier, Jr.; and T.A. Russell.

22 boxes (11 linear ft.) + 1 OVSD.207 blueprints.465 photographs.

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Russell, T. A.

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American standards association

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Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942

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Architect, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. From the description of Albert Kahn papers, 1888-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122594234 From the description of Albert Kahn papers, 1888-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 744425614 Albert Kahn and Cass Gilbert were both prominent architects. From the description of Albert Kahn business correspondence, 1908-1927 (bulk 1908-1909). (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 712650461 Alb...

Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company

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Timken-Detroit Axle Company

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Trinity college Hartford, Conn.

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Couzens, James, 1872-1936

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U.S. senator from Michigan, mayor of Detroit, Michigan, and industrialist. From the description of James Couzens papers, 1903-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982271 Detroit Mayor and civic leader, U.S. Senator, Ford Motor Co. executive James Couzens was born in Chatham, Ont., Aug. 26, 1872, son of James J. and Emma (Clift) Couzens; married Margaret A. Manning, Aug. 31, 1898. Began the manufacture of automobiles in 1903 ; vice-president, genera...

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Perrin, John G., 1880-1966.

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Automotive engineer; chief engineer and manufacturing head of Lozier Motor Co., eventually in charge of the Detroit, Mich. plant; chief engineer of the Timken-Detroit Axle Co.; worked with aircraft engines in U.S. Army Signal Corps, including the Liberty 12; worked for Willys-Overland, in Toronto, Stevens-Duryea and Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. Charter member of the Society of Automotive Engineers; held seven patents; after retirement taught engineering at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. ...

Burwell, George W., -1873

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George W. Burwell was a physician, planter, and businessman of Mecklenburg County, Va. He had family and business connections to Henderson, Granville County, N.C., and other locations along the North Carolina-Virginia border, largely through his brothers H. H., Louis, William, and Armistead R., and the family of his wife Elizabeth Gayle Burwell, particulary her parents Thomas Gayle (d. 1855?) and Elizabeth Gayle (d. 1868?). From the description of George W. Burwell papers, 1786, 1800...

Lozier Motor Company

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Willys-Overland Limited.

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Lozier, Henry A.

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Stevens-Duryea Company

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United States. Army. Signal Corps

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Congress passed a resolution creating a national weather service on February 9, 1870, and it was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. This new law directed the Secretary of War to take meterological observations and provide warnings of approaching storms. The Brevet Brigadier General Albert J. Myer and his Signal Service Corps were assigned this duty on February 25, 1870 by the Secretary of War. Weather observations began on November 1, 1870. In June 1872, Congress extended the weather...

Deering, Ray S.

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Sunbeam Motor Car Co.

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