Victor J. Perini papers, 1918-1931.

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Victor J. Perini papers, 1918-1931.

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The Victor J. Perini papers consist primarily of personal photographs documenting the various Ford Motor Company positions he held. The papers include photographs of Liberty motors; the Green Island, New York power plant; assembly lines at the Ford plant in Manchester, England and promotional photographs of the 250,000th Model T produced in England; and employee housing and plant operations at the Iron Mountain sawmill. Of special interest is an unbound album of construction progress photographs documenting the development of Ford rubber operations in Brazil between 1928 and 1931.

0.2 cubic ft. and 1 oversize box.

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Perini, Victor J.

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Victor J. Perini was born in New York City in 1889. He began his career as a tool maker in New Jersey and moved to Detroit in 1910. He started working at Ford Motor Company as a toolmaker at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit, Michigan in April, 1910. He worked his way up to become superintendent of the Motor Building at Ford's Higland Park plant and supervised construction of the Liberty aircraft motor during World War I. In 1922, Perini was assigned to supervise construction of a h...

Perini, Victor J., 1889-1941.

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Ford Motor Company ltd.

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Ford Motor Company entered the British automobile market in 1904 when the Ford Model A was presented at the Cordingly Auto Show. In 1907, Perry, Thornton & Schrieber, Ltd. gained the license to distribute Ford automobiles including the soon to be released Model T. The vehicles were shipped to Great Britain disassembled, or knocked down, and assembled in England. Ford Motor Company, (England) Ltd. was established on March 11, 1911 and produced the first British built Model T in October, 1911 ...

Compania Ford Industrial do Ford Brasil.

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