Fair Lane railroad business car collection, 1920-1989 (bulk 1929-1984).

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Fair Lane railroad business car collection, 1920-1989 (bulk 1929-1984).

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The Fair Lane Railroad Business Car collection is arranged into three series reflecting the various owners of the car and in chronological order. The contents of the series reflect the work done on the car as dictated by the owner's personal taste and the stipulations of the Amtrak rail system that allowed the car to travel on commercial tracks. The first series, the Pullman Company, 1921 (1 folder and one oversize box) includes original drawings for the Fair Lane and a few photographs. The second relates to the work done by Henry Ford and the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, 1916-1973 (1 cubic foot and 3 oversize boxes) and includes some correspondence, particularly relating to the donation to the Cherokee Nation, administrative files and extensive engineering drawings. Henry Ford era drawings are included here because they passed from Ford to St. Louis Southwestern with the sale of the car. The third series relates to the Richard Kughn era, 1980-1989 (5 cubic feet and 5 oversize boxes) and consists of administrative files, clippings, correspondence, expense reports, trade catalogues, photographs, work orders and engineering drawings.

6 cubic feet and 9 oversize boxes.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Kughn, Richard P.

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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 ...

Pullman Company

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York County, Pa., plant, which produced automobiles, also known as Pullman Motor Car Company. From the description of Records, 1903-1999. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70974944 Manufacturer of railroad sleeping and passenger cars founded by George M. Pullman; incorporated in 1867 as Pullman's Palace Car Company; name changed to Pullman Company in 1899; Pullman Incorporated formed 1927 with Pullman Company and Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp., becoming its principal sub...

Railway Passenger Services.

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St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company

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