Budd Company historical files 2411
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Manuscripts and Archives PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library Budd Company historical files 2411
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Summary Information ...... 3 Biogrpahical Note ...... 3 Scope and Content ...... 4 Administrative Information ...... 4 Related Materials ...... 5 Controlled Access Headings ...... 5 Collection Inventory ...... 5
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Summary Information
Repository: Manuscripts and Archives Creator: Budd Company Title: Budd Company historical files ID: 2411 Date [inclusive]: 1914-1993 Date [bulk]: bulk 1929-1982 Physical Description: 2 Linear Feet Language of the English . Material: Abstract: The collection consists of a synthetic historical file assembled for public relations purposes at Budd Company's Michigan headquarters.
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Biogrpahical Note
Edward Gowen Budd (1870-1946) founded the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia in 1912. It merged with the subsidiary Budd Wheel Company in 1946 to form The Budd Company. Budd and his company pioneered in the design, fabrication and welding of light steel sheets. Budd's primary products were automobile and truck bodies and parts, but between 1934 and 1983, it was an innovative builder of railroad and transit passenger cars and it also produced some experimental stainless steel airplanes. In 1978, Budd became a subsidiary of Thyssen AG of Germany. The money- losing railroad car operations were first spun off to a separate Thyssen subsidiary, Transit America, Inc., in 1985 and then sold to Bombardier Inc. in 1987. Thyssen concentrated operations in Michigan and closed its last Philadelphia plant in 2002. The surviving company is now named ThyssenKrupp Budd Company.
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Scope and Content
The collection consists of historical manuscript files, among them an extensive typescript entitled "The Life and Work of Edward G. Budd."; a report on The Budd Company facilities prepared for the Rover Company, Ltd., of Great Britain in 1925; a report on the Shotweld process prepared for the Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1939, and a facsimile of a 1914 letter from the Dodge Brothers about an early Budd order. The remainder of the file consists of clippings, tear sheets, press releases, and various letters and pamphlets, all dealing with company products, personnel or employee relations. Among these are letters from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from 1944 and materials relating to the Pioneer III and Metroliner railroad cars. One of the tear sheets describes how company official Paul Pleiss and his German counterpart at Ambi-Budd smuggled the secret of the German army's innovative five gallon gasoline can out of Germany in 1939.
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Administrative Information
Publication Statement Manuscripts and Archives
PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library
Provenance Some of the materials in this collection were removed from the Red Lion and Hunting Park plants in Philadelphia and Michigan. Complete archival records generated at those plants have for the most part been destroyed. While some photographs and pamphlets were removed from Red Lion before the sale, all of the Budd drawings passed to Bombardier, Inc. in 1987.
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Related Materials
Related Material An oil portrait and bust of Edward G. Budd, Sr. are located in the Museum Division's collections at Hagley Museum and Library.
Budd Company photographs (Accession 1999.228), Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department, Hagley Museum and Library.
Budd Company photographs (Accession 2017.237), Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department, Hagley Museum and Library.
Budd-Williams Negative Collection (Accession RR96.32), Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, 300 Gap Road, Strasburg, Pa.
Budd Company legal documents (Accession 2557), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library.
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Controlled Access Headings
• Automobiles -- Design and construction. • Railroads -- Rolling stock -- Design and construction • Automobile industry and trade • Railroads. • Automobile industry workers • Correspondence. • Biography • Budd, Edward Gowen, 1870-1946
Collection Inventory
Title/Description Instances Airplanes - "Pioneer", 1969-1977undated box 1
Ambi-Budd Presswerk, GmbH (German subsidiary), 1924 box 1
Appointments - 32Management, circa 1960-1973 box 1 - Page 5- Budd Company historical files 2411
Auto bodies, 1929-1954 box 1
Budd, Edward G., Sr. - "Life and Work of Edward G. Budd", box 1 undated
Budd, Edward G., Sr. - Miscellaneous, 1934-1957 box 1
Budd-Thyssen merger, 1978 box 1
Budd Wheel Company, 1945 box 1
Company History -- General, 1937-1981 box 1
Dodge Motor Car Company letter, 1914 box 1
Employee representation plan, 1933 box 2
Employee's guide, circa 1930 box 2
FMC Corporation -- Bradley fighting vehicle, 1981 box 2
Gas-turbine rail car, 1966 box 2
Jerry cans, 1950-1975 box 2
Labor relations, 1945-1946 box 2
"Metroliners", 1965-1968 box 2
Milford Fabricating Company, 1993 box 2
Ordnance, 1944 box 2
Payrolls, 1912 box 2
Pennsylvania Railroad Co. -- Passenger cars, 1944 box 2
"Pioneer III" railroad car, 1956 box 2
Press releases, 19821984 box 2
Press releases and news clips, 1979-1982 box 2
Product Development Division, 1972 box 2
Ragsdale, Col. E. J. W. -- Death -- Condolences, 1946 box 2
Rail Diesel Car, 1962 box 2
Railroads -- General, 1944-1961 box 2
Railway Division, circa 1980 box 2
Rover Company, Ltd. -- Report for (illus.), 1925 box 2
Shotweld process -- Report to Civil Aeronautic Authority(illus.), box 2 1939
Streamlined trains: Burlington Twin Cities Zephyr, 1945 box 2
Streamlined trains: El Capitan, 1954 box 2
Streamlined trains: General, 1947 box 2
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Streamlined trains: Prospector, 1941 box 2
Streamlined trains: Sunset Limited, 1950 box 2
Subway cars, 1960 box 2
Transit America -- Freight cars, circa 1990 box 2
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