Commercial airplane reliability tour collection, 1925-1927.

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Commercial airplane reliability tour collection, 1925-1927.

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The collection is comprised primarily of material documenting the first Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour, which was held in 1925. Included are lists of contestants, rules and regulations, miscellaneous tour forms, aerial strip maps locating routes and landing fields, aeronautical bulletins, and blueprints mapping towns and airfields comprising the tour. Also included are pathfinder notes that were created as guidance for local officials in providing accommodations for participants; a list of exhibitors in the Aircraft and Accessories Manufacturers Exposition that was held at Ford Airport during the tour; and a photograph album holding fifty-six 10" x 14" black and white photographs of personnel, participating aircraft, and activities held at Ford Airport during the time of the tour. The collection also contains one bound volume entitled "National Air Tour of 1927; Publicity Campaign Conducted by the Aviation Division Adcraft Club of Detroit." The volume holds material documenting the National Air Tour of 1927 for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy, including correspondence, financial statements, committee reports, maps, publicity, and an official rule book. There is also a copy of the victory banquet program, a radio script entitled "Getting There," and photographs of window displays.

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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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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 ...

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...