Owen W. Bombard information files records series, 1863-1958 (bulk 1950-1956)

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Owen W. Bombard information files records series, 1863-1958 (bulk 1950-1956)

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The series is comprised of two subseries. The Subject Information Files subseries, 1863-1958 (2 cubic ft.), Acc. 903, consists of reference and topical files created by Bombard and staff while Bombard headed the Ford Motor Company Archives Oral History Section. Alphabetically arranged, the material includes facts and data regarding the Ford family and the evolution of the Ford Motor Company. The Chronological Information Files subseries, 1863-1958 (1.6 cubic ft. and 5 card files), Acc. 902, is comprised of a number of chronologies relating to the Ford Motor Company and Henry Ford. Among the Ford family related chronologies are itineraries and educational, philanthropic, and antiquarian activities. Among those relating to Ford Motor Company organization and administration are branch operations, aviation, engineering, industrial relations, manufacturing, public relations, legal, sales, and finance. A set of card files are similarly arranged.

3.6 cubic ft. and 5 card files.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Ford Motor Company. Archives. Oral History Section.

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Owen W. Bombard, born in 1922 in Au Sable Forks, New York, received undergraduate and masters degrees from New York State College. While working towards a PhD at Columbia University, he trained with Allan Nevins in the Oral History Research Office. Bombard was hired by the Ford Motor Company Archives in 1950 to head an Oral History Section designed to enrich the historical record already housed in the newly formed Ford Motor Company Archives. The mission of the section, according to a 1952 Bomba...

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...

Ford Motor Company Oral History Section.

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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...

Bombard, Owen W., 1922-

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Ford family.

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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 ...

Henry Ford (Organization)

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