The Reminiscences of Mr. Bascop Mahaffey

The Reminiscences of Mr. Bascom Mahaffey

From the Owen W. Bombard interviews series, 1951-1961 Accession 65

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MR, BASCOM MASAFPKX

Ford Motor Company Axculvee Oral Eiotory eoctiar: October, Tbe BeMt&sceoccs of

m. BASCOK HaUABFiar

These reminiscences ere the result of aa interview witti

Mr. Baseom Mahsffey by m* Oust* Bombard on Just© ifc, 1951, at

Mehmond ail, Georgia*

this interview was tela under tbe ausploee of the Oral His* tory Section of the Fora vjotor Company Archives.

Tbe interviewer's questions have been omitted from the ae- count. See questioning 't«s pri&arily in tits forw of topics nu^jae-oe.- to Mr. Mabaftey eoaceraiag wtiieli he miixt havo tsa&i intlauto ;.aovie 1<,-,. lo editorial insertions have been usee other than "^¾-- trie..: cynoar.i.v of the donor's activities and tins isaex.

The language of tbe narrative is entirely toat of the donor.

Be baa reviewed and corrected the lssaoscrlpt and by his signature be* low indicated that it is a correct copy of Me reEdai^ence*.

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ii Mr# Basccas l«saff«y was bom ia t^uificy* Florida oa Deeester 16» li99* 8* 4#iae4 ti» JaoksoawLUg 'teaaca of the Ford Motor Coapiay ©a

Septeatoer Xk, Igek where he wis aiaptoyoci ia various capacities including

work ia tbe Body Bepaiia»at# assistant chief iaspeete** iai finally oa road service, la 1938 Mr. NMba££ay trmisferred to BieteonS HiU vimm he assumed responsibility for aU »achaaieal e^uipoeat ot the piaatatioa. lere Mr* Matoaffisy wit Mr. ieary Fori and discussed aaay sioctoasieal questions vita sis*, as wen as coasideriag plane for future operations at the plantation.

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Deaonatrating the Fordson

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Bessy Ford at Richmond Hill

Richmond Hill and the Future...... • I was bora in Quincy, Florida m. December i£, 1399» 1 vent with the Ford Motor Company September lU, tiy father, by tee way, was mm of tbe Heary-Fonl-fex'-.PresMeat men down ia Florida.

Be always owned Ford product©.

I don't recaU too much about what was being done down there in tbe Ford-for^Presideat movement. It wm at a tiae utien I wasn't particularly interested ia politics, and naturally, 1 didn't toow a heelt of a lot about politics* Polities today gets into the younger generation sore tbaa it did in tbe younger generation back then because tben we didn't come of votias age until ve were twenty-one-years-old.

We were more or lose disgusted with tbe older generation in ix>litics; to put It that way, that's what it was.

Sbere were eoamltteee that AM get together and advocate running Beery Ford for president. She uuestion of Republican and

Democrat ease is tben aid. burst it -up. People didn't knov ia ttiooo days. Mr. Ford didn't express himself too much on ix>litics, taouvd. I understand be ran for the Senate oi: the ixaaocratic ticket iii u&d lost. He always claimed to be a Itopublicaa iuter, vnsn lie did talk about it, but that wasn't often, fhey didn't get very far with it.

In other words, I tblnH be refused, and it stopped.

My father always thought, like myself, that Henry Ford wae a great man ami esecutive. He thought tbat if a businessman was at tbe bead

-1- of the Government, the conditions that te vas interested ia yrfamriiy, turpentine aad farming, would get tins right kind of direction in

Government that would assist those fellcws aad usate it possible for them to survive. Back then, the turpentine asa were going broke, formers were under mortgages} things of" all -types like that were eoamon.

It took a slave driver, you might say, to survive.

My father had to work labor so cheap, aad eto everything he did. le had to watch that dollar la order to survive. Baths why 'te thought that Benry Ford would 'be the ma for the job. He baa* read, all about his theories and ideas 1» labor, about helping the coason laborer ami bringing his staadard of living up* Wall, naturally when you'd help him, you would help the otter man, the executives ana so forth of various coatsunlties«

8e also went down the Use with tils oa the Jew tpestica. 3¾ didn't thiak so such of them getting into business and monopolising

•tilings like toey do, like th© Jew has monopolized, or tried to monopolise, the automobile industry.

% to today there*s but oa« person responsible fur their aot having a complete monopoly oa tue autaaabile iaauatry, unci tuao pcrsxm is Henry Ford, ilobody but him is responsible for that, VhatiUj* taa general public will agree with that or not, 1 doa't know, "tot. 1 know it is true because I've been ia the automobile industry with Ford for a long, tiae, twenty-seven years to the date 1 gave.

«2- Anyway, that's why ay father vas so such Interested in

Mr, Ford being sleeted president.

On the fans there I worked on Model T's end Fordson tractora aad assisted the J. S. fcbav Jiotor Company in yattia. on Foresaw tr..wtur demonstrations. I ©pent some time at cavtiillG, ,xist iaili;: .jcta di-t some logging work. That is where 1 started off on tbe Ford cars. I started with the Company by working first oa ay father's place with

Ford products.

Our plantation was what you ©old call, In that daj. aad liu~.» a modem plantation. It bad lots ox mdurtrovajd irrigation. In fact, my father spent a fortune ir* experiaental t.ork ia faming. 11« ;*rev cigar tobacco and it required moisture at a curtain tlue, sc we put in all undergrouni irrigation under our tobacco sheds and produced wbat we can a combination tobacco. We bad cheesecloth, irrigation ju-a slat; slate overhead, cheesecloth overhead, aad irris^ation, which j^ro- duced a high grade of tobacco.

'The difference ia tbe price of it wasn't enough at that time; today it is. It has been adjusted to where the farmer now can got oat aad put forth the necessary effort to proUuce a yrade of tobacco and get the right kind of price for it. Those ware adjustments tLut had to .be made over a period of tisej it took time to do it. I think at teat time the only difference was five cents, but my father and others in the county knew that tbe aamtfacturers would appreciate tbe difference

-3- is toe quality of too wrapper oa tbe tobacco.

Back then, they didn't pay GO much attention to the way ft cigar looked, the outside of it, the wrapper, as they do today. It must be free of as nany flaws as possible, particularly those hlr> grade cigars*

Tbe Ford Motor Gos^any put oa demonstrntioiis oa our plaata- tlon throu^i the ford dealer there* Of course, when they came out there, and since ve had worked with all this stuff, Shaw always employed me to help them with the demaostmtlotts, being familiar vita various types of equipment that they were using, and using it every day.

It was at the Floatation that I was in most of the a^Haoastru- tions of the «J. E. Shav Company, which vas the Ford dealer at that tiae.

The demonstrations they put oa were at our place. They would bring equipment, their farm iinplemente aad several tractors aaa a portable model sawmill, dray© to haul logs onj and they would bring threaliinr machines, hay balers, different stock pullers, and tillage like that.

We*d find a plot somewhere aod set it up out on the cap ox- side of one of the plantations, particularly some piece of land that we wanted to clear up.

First, we would set the sawmill off on the. oi

m wouM snake the logs with, toe Fordsua tractor and lo-i* thea with the Fordsoa tractor, thea haul thea* to IAW &-wolH cita ua.;

Fordeon tractor. After we bad eat tbe lumber, wo'a haul It 01T v.. the dray. We were supposed to be going to the isoint of ski^ine; \iitii tbe lumber* 1¾® Ford Motor Ccegjaay took pictures am everything of the operation.

«e dida*t have portable sawrdHs, because VK- bad two &9ali sawmills* they were steam operated, aad this was too smell a scale for us to pay a crew of men to operate. 35sat particular type of sy.wcd.ll was not for production; it waa few tbe farmer to use la cutting hie- ow& lumber aad stuff tbat he vested, Sae Idas ©f the Ford i-iotor CoapfKoy was to give Ma a seenlll and when 1» iw«d©i to ouila a .tni, lie vwalu rua down on bis farm, cut tbe tiaber aad haul it in tc tlm yir.wlll, cut it up to tbe size and dimensions of lumber that hu wuntcv. U> build bis barn. Bo tbat was tbe reason for tbat particulai" type of sawaill.

It waa not for production,

I was supposed to £0 with tbe Ford Motor Company and go into tbe Fordsoa fraetor Division. It ^aa all out and dried end mm I got down there, tbe plant was fixing to 30 into pircduction, and 1 wae hired

in there ©a tbat. It's a statement that can be challencpd, I 'know, but

it's true. I went to work for ,:.3;.-. cm hour!

1 worked one day for 1-32 aa hour. I really think tbe super-

-5. intendent questioned vnether 1 would stiak It out or not, and be vas

Just working m for aa hour heeauao that wasn't foru rotor Caqxux, policy.

It so happened that I bad acwai a toto f aaeMieiy ia say life, long before I vas grown. I moved savsaills about from place to place., from one part of the plaatatiai to another, so I'd bad tmmrimms in moviag heavy e^iipmeat. I also had experience- with the irrigation plant boilers and gasps, netting toem UP and operating them; so that e^xarfemse came la mighty good.

I was put ia at tbe Jacksonville branch, ami ths contractors were moving out oa ©as end and we were moving ia oa the other. Title machinery was sitting on tbe indoor aiding. All tbe maebinery vas 1» tbe cars and we 'were taking it out of tbe ears aaa placid it about according te toe blueprint* fhie was contracting tba Jacksonville assem• bly plant — cars, aot tractors*

I mm really put oa the U-U. jaac to atx i£ X woUU; srtiok, X*s* quite sure, and I got so raau at talc bull jjxuz foreraau. T>*u base -it-- gotten after Mm up the line there, and Ite came by and, coy? ifc Kc^py.*:' oa tbe gang «— the works! Hell, I knew ve wm't -iota.. ii •5 >t. bad suggested to Mm tba* we could BOW* it vith pipii* , tauc 1?, .vli ii.

He said, "Yeahf You're aot paid to do that* You're .n-U. tw KUV. machinery.n

It was hot Kwather, uau «« voro buekln,.; it aid pucMn,i it .u.. shoving it and dragging it aad everything else. St» results were toat we bad two pieces out at eleven o'clock. \o nturtwc U> wor». ..t eight o'clock in tbe looming, end at eleven o'clock naa wc isioc-t-r, ui* that equipment moved about fifty feet*

fto© general foreman eaoa ay, and did be blew bio top! "ti -ir- busy vita tbe plans and tbe blueprint man in Me office, and be L.u told us to unload those earn and net- talc stuff ia a cortolu urwi uUe.v : where, whenever they aid want it, ve eaula move it to tl*e .Oac..- t;«r,t toey wanted as soon as tiicy $ot t;mt oottlod. ikj ao coas oat there, just boiling* It so happened tbat the foreman wuo off somewhere.

I wasn't broke. 1 didn't have any money to speak of, .:ut I wasn't broke. 1 wasn't be^gia^ for a ,)ob. 1 just wanted to *« J work for Beary Fordi that's who I waatc-d to work for. So I u.,lc tltio fellow, "Sow, here, you've got ao business blasting us. t-:«'re doiu; wit., thing just like we were told to

Be said, "'fell, you think yoa can move it, baM"

1 said, "I tcnow 1 can aove it,**

Be said, "Suppose, then, tbat you be tbe foreman from now oaf*

I seta, *HeH, I'at not asking for that, but 1 know I caa now the stuff aad get theee cars unloaded aad get them out of tiie way. 1 know that!"

:He said, *HeU, yoa are it from now on. let's see what can do with it.8'

-7- as aad hosm fooling wound wit© these fallows the day before, aad .tbe contractors wore moving oat. Ubere were pieces of piping just «swywnere, and 1 vent and sot 1¾ a wholo ;%Rsrul 0/ pi./l,;-,..

33» body |igs and everything vote bolted onto skidc, and I ju^t piekc- up one end of it and put tbe rollers under it. Thea I ivu th» .xr, ;,i . and we Just wheeled it right out of tbwrc.

93» results wore, we unloaduu the rest of tbe w?iol£ CI-JA, k,

3*30 p.m., and I west up and got say pliysieal emaiaatioa. I K*dr*«. bad ay pbysieal* So 1 sot ay pbysical eiMaination aad weat to vers, i'o^

$.62| an hour, the starting wage at that ties. T^rooftcr I've :Vi-a*/r been Sa a forswa e&paeliy,

1 went froa that to body trim, and after body triia I started out into body build, aad thea to tae euariel oven. Titey l^l - little trouble and they put ae over there wit** that, liteu 1 veat -in oa u*rars. tiee, going through the plant. 1 vent buck to the body trim aad stayed there till 193-1» 93*sa 1 weat on m assistant chief Inspector the first, part of »32.

In I932 ve were building the but they discontinue*.' tha-u plant tbe same year and it ©but down. Shea l went iato «a* f arouse, tl

Mr* Ford in 3$jj8 needed a man bore, they'd haa » lot war truu'o2,e# so be told Mr. Sr®g©ry> who was la charge, to @s% a man ia to run tfco mechanical ©ad of all the e%uipjaaat; automotive, dragline, tractors, oad

-8~ stuff like that. So I took it over.

1 had heard about that request through sy boss legale kammm, who mm bead of tbe Service Desportaant at tbat tiae, *ben I was a service t»veler. Mr. indorses, came by mm oa a complaint, aad Mr.

Gregory told hia tbat Mr. Ford vauted bia to get a aaa froa the Jacksonville branch. They bad bad so such trouble with sea here oa tbe job, that Is, tbe forostan, looking after tbe eeuipaaat, that lie asked Ma to call on tbe Jacksonville broach for a aaa; ami te specified oae that bad had soae diesel experience.. 1 was the only am that bad bad aay dleoel experience.

There was diesel efolpaeat here, m bad a drag llae, aa RD-8 tractor, aad two seai-diesel jsbs-i AUiB-Chali».rs aad seai-dicsel

Walker-Shaw eagiaee. They had been tryiag te keep the aalntexiaoce 0» those with local men t/ho dida*t lave the es^erlence*

He had at oae thai sevea aeehonlee. That ms mm we lived all ia oae building. Two of thea were old Ford aiechanics. They uere here when I eaae, aad I knew both of them* 1 had bad thea ia school mmi 1 was aeebsnioai instructor for the Ford Motor Coapaay. I*d bad those boys ia school in Ford teabgrships, both of thea, aad incidentally, they're both here now. One is not physically fit any aewo. He's just coae back from Dublin Hospital. He Is & veteran of HorM War I and he's not doing so well.

AH I bad was two experienced Ford aecbanies, and the rest of

*9» them were just boys offered tfce job. We made eight mechanics since we've been here who are out in the mechanical trot * now and doia-~ u •'

job and asking a good living at it. One of then vac a craauatA. o: t,*

Trade School here, but tbe rest of the© were just boys from tbe farm who

wanted to go into tbe shop and learn a mechanical trade j how to work on

automotive equipment, trucks, repairing of ears, tractors, and so forth.

I bad about 16 trucks here whoa I first came and I would say

25 Fordsoa tractors, end all of thee were in tbe shop, it was alraost

tbat bad. I'm not patting myself oa tbe back or anything like that, but

it just needed supervision, that's all.

It was, get this job finished aad get it out, Instead of working

on this job and quitting, and going over here on this one because it

would take a little longer to fix tats one than it would that one. we

just took them one at a time and fixed them and got them out. Ue fixe;,

them to go out end do a job. As soon ae we got around, which took m

about 15 or SO days, we could handle it. %e haven't had any trouble since.

We have .managed to take ear© of It ever since thea.

Of course, we cut those men off. We're just down to & mlnlEum

now. We couldn't cut aay lower than we are now. low I've got two teaenaalcsi

one first-class mechanic, aad tbe other one is not able to work, la fact,

bis last pay waa about sixteen hours. He's ay tinkerer. le overhauls my

carburetors, distributore, fuel pumps, generators, voltage regulators,

aad tilings like tbat. Be Is an electrical wizard and a carburetloa man.

-10- He Is a two-cycle man; lm works ou autcffisotive tyo-cycla raotorc aaa

things like that.

When t got Ijerc la 193U, aothiar; Isod to bo seat oat, -,c

overhauled motors, transmissions, rear ends una everything. - a WCSKJ-

equipped to do any kind of truck or tractor repair work. i,*e Old uao tiie-

Ford trade Behool for a vhole lot of tilings that we needed to 'be taraed

or made, especially body e^uipxmt or na^U:iii<; like tfaai*

2 remember tiie eircuostances of w& first swrttog with Jfianry

Ford, and it was <|uite interesting, too* lie ease up and wanted to know-

how we «*» handling tbi®, ims we wens handling that, and waat «2 ware

. doing* le omened to he very well pleased with the operation, uau

asked me my life's history. Of course, lie always talked to •ivoryijocv",

out he did ask me that.

He asked ae how 1 liked It her© aad Bald he was k-jlad to

me here and so forth* One thine I should cay, 1 (:,-ueos, at thlo polio.,

is that I was kind of uncertain. I didn't know vhat tiie situation -was

here, awing been with the Ford Motor Company at the aoney »*kia;,.; eaa

and spending Honey the way w were* 1 couldn't see it. So 1 asked Ma

point blank as .soon ae 1 got am opportunity.

I said, "tot. Ford, vhat are you £$oiag to do here? «bat is

this going'to bet How long do you toink tat© will last?" In fact, 1 bad

a 90 day leave of absence. 1 was leery of tale thing. I didn't know Smt

vhat I vas going to do. 80 1 asked nr. Ford bow loa;; %Ldt* Udac , oiirj to exist.

He said, "Hell, I it set up for twenty years, anil wke«

I go back this year, 1 lave plans to set it up for five aore, wbic& Kill sake 25 years.**

"Well," I said, "if I'm suiting everybody, why, J'» all right.

I'a set if I'm suiting everybody, but 1 would lite to

"Ob,*1 be said, "you're doing all right. Jack Uses you. You're doing a good job, aind everything is going to be all right. * 5Swa be asked ae if I'd ever been to Detroit.

I told am* "See, I've been to the aecbanleal schools up there three times. I:*ve been to Memphis aad Atlanta to special schools, leuvi^-;

tbe Jacksonville branch to go up to these*'*

le said, "Hell, we'll be having you up to Detroit ia tbe near future. I'd like for you to brush yourself up oa later things. Just because you're here at tbe plantation is ao reason why you're going to dry up, fou're still going to advance.*'

However, those things never did develop, which I eats understand, fhey just didn't come around, that's all. But 1 guess if 2 Jiud requested it froa old ana. Jack, I probably could have gone up there aad attended om of their regular Ford Motor Coapaay service schools, wbieh 1 would lov--.} to have done. But 1 was just too busy, that's a fact. 1 just bad ecuujgi to do here tbat kept ae confined, and 1 ms enjoying itf I always have.

She next experience ia meeting Kr. Ford came wbeu I had a 60

.1¾- horsepower *37 Ford. He eaae buck the oaa..- year, au^ lie sol... pretty much oa this stool sleeve motor ^ob. Ue wem oxpuriamttiu;.: vifck that a good bit. I wanted a steel oleovo job ia ay "-Sa'*1 cur. I dld»*t have bat 73,000 miles oa it vita the ori.;-;Lnal eyoty^iai;, i',la;j« fuii -11.

I vented to replace it with a bare slxxnn .tob aad 1 ooalda*t ;;"-t it.

I tried the dealer hero and 1 toed the brsaet., bectsuov i~ aay exchange motors eaae ia with a band alocve £ osolu v&at it. iiu'i. I

Just couldn't get aae* It just ao happened that the bru^Km eotOtai't locate one. Some were coming throueb* and they would e»cbaao8 motorc.

I told Mr* Ford that I aa© tryiuc to replace it.

Be wanted to driva my ;s6c*w»

Be drove mine to see if it handled all right, <*?d it did. It took care of It. It was pulling and everything, bur It was usiuc all*

I told him that when 1 eould get hold ox' a Imta Bloc re jsotor, 1 VJUS putting it in there*

"Oh," be ©aid, "1*11 saud you

1 not one wholesale fox* what tho uealer would for it, .*-i-

I did 180,00® miles on that Ford. I die put la another yet of ria:sc uud cleaned tbe oil pump before I sold it.

•ftoe biggest taxing wrong witb t&at Ford was tbat 1 lad m ,

-13- the pea about every 30,000 miles aad clean out the- oil pianp* ton would lose your oil pressure, aad It wasn't a thing in the world but carbonisation from the steel pistons flaking off and going down into the pan and stopping up the oil stream* 1 found that out. All of a

sudden I lost ay oil pressure.

WeH, nothing had happened, 1 didn't have the car 3tot or

have anything happen that caused it to damage the bei»rings, oo I iii^weu

the pan to see what was the matter. When 1 dropped the pan, there wao

the darn screen stopped up. 1 took it and poured some gas mi it. 1

threw it oa with a washrag to buna, out aad 'knock the stuff oat, and

then I put the screen, back on. I bad 30 pounds of oil pressure so,

thereafter, every 30,000 miles, 1¼ drop the pan and clean tbe oil

screen*

I sold that ear, (and it delivered papers right here for two

years), to one of the worst drivers tbat you could put oa anything.

Tou could give him a wheelbarrow and he'd tear it 5¾½ tec be UeUvereu

papers here with tbat same ear for two years. He sold it with the case

motor end everything. It had tbe sasae .generator with two sets of ur^^-c,

I drove that car, aad I never used a buttery leoc than two years at up•

time. One battery wont aa high as three years.

Mr. ford often discussed automobiles with me. Be knew that

I was very pweb interested in the Ford car from the mechanical end.

EverytSme be wanted anything, he -usually wae right in toe midst of it when be cam© dawn hare. He worked nighty close to a^. When be first came to so, lie wanted u Model *? Ford. "She aala thing," te said, "1¼ interested ia io too transmission. Can you get me one?0

I said, "Jfes, I can get you case.*1 Shat m& lir. i'ora asking for one, and 1 figured I could get it If it could be cotton. So I tyix out, and the man working on tbe lawa now there bod one. 1 «ac no lu*i tbat be'd sell it, bat 1 took a stall at ii end went to see bis. 1 asked bim if be'd sell it.

"tea, sir. Sure thing!'*

"How much you want for it?"

"I'll take |a5.B

I said, "an it rani"

"Ob, yeah!'*

"HlH you go over with ae and drive it back?" "tee, sir."

1 ©aid, "AM right, you've sold it. I'll0 ive yoa .;<> for tw."

So we went and got it.

In the aeentiiae, Ford had cone back three tiueo anu vuatea to know what I'd done about it. I toM Ma i was on the track of one but

I hadn't completed the Seal yet. Finally, 1 told hia I'd located* one aad that I would have it back to here tbat afternoon.

It was ko miles from here. It waa put auuy aad hadn't run ia a

•15- month. W© west aad eramfcad her up, filled tbe radiator full of water, aad took off* We had to stop a couple of times aad fill the radiator again.

Finally m eaae in* He bad been to the garage six tioes, wanting to knew if J ever got back with that Model f. Vhm be got there,

I had Just cut it off. This ma had driven ia art followed me 'back, and had Just cut it off. Ob, she was steaming!

Mr. Ford walked up and looked at it aad said, "Just •thiak of tbat!" fbat was a lp6, 1 believe, nodal $, aad tills happened ^psi* mately in IgftO or *kl; i don't remember exactly the year. Ife waoted to drive it. Ife aalt, "Win it run?"

I said, **JCes, sir. We drove it.*

*^0n, yes!" IK said, "That's right! She's steaming, isn't sbef" "*ea."

Unat aoesn't hurt," be saM, "a© long ae it doesn't pour water out."

1 didn't tell him that it had poured the water out and was leaking. Anyhow, we filled her 'back up, aad cranked her up.

Ife said, "fea driv© it."

So I drove, aad we' weat up to- the crossroads aad baofe up to tbe place *~ aad if be didn't enjoy thatI le Just raved about that old car. Be said, "Sow this is responsible for ovgryiaiiug! This is the car

~l6~ that did the work. 1 do hops that everyone appreciates vhat it has meant to the world. It's aeant a good Mt, a good bib! I don't '..no.

that everyone appreciates it, but tarn do."

I said, "uoll, I certainly to!''

le wanted that car torn up, elocuc ., ;»c* -*;^ Wii: *;uc£

taken offj all the vhaels taken off", -11 the . .rc^ae ukcu -*.^, l£-u .. i 01 :1., put back on dry with no grease, the trc-asdsdoxi uis«osuude<.- -«» v r„ -..d..^.

We did what lie wanted. ' o cx^uuiou ii uy &borouciLly, took the body off, Junked it, cleaned tJas works 10, took all tau fenders oi4fj •.*>.

took 13» braces off ¢0 wo could net v*rouna it. I ux>£. ii uwwa XIKJEO \ J him, aad that was whist he wanted.

"But now,19 be said, "let's tula tua uolor out. or it."

So we took the stotor out aaa tj-juinuasiou. "Bus i^miKd.dori

is what 1 want," he said.

After finishing that be saiJ, "Sow 1 want a I odd A, a ..oid

A transmission — a Model A car. Could you ©et me oae?**

I said, "fee, air!"

Be was up here ia an hour or so and wanted to know if I'd ^ottea

him one. I had called the dealer la tcwa and lie diua't Wvw . or^. .u-x-1

A in the yard* lie had had one last week, bat it UI.Q ijoue isj uhc tit*,. K

®ot to him. I called the dealer?; at iiinoGvillo, ^edv-oke, I-^leu,

Brunswick, and all around, trying to locaU; one. 'iiid v;ouiu i.v L-.j „ .-tcked way to locate one -* to tell the dealer to bold one till I could there aad trade for It. But they just C.idn't have one. On-* fellow aori !• had one the day before I called, but t!» oam thiar left bciora I .,; v **. htm.

Mr. Ford was up to ask about it and he said, "Maybe we eou.U. find one in a juakyara.5*

1 said, "Yea, air, 1 .x-il-r/.j u= e-..l<."

le said, "We'll £ce dosm ^•: rc;e„"

Mr. Ford caiioJ Scbultz utt' :.Hsca aau aysel". " .-jot tr. car sea vent down to Savannah to the 0>jeoei*oe crocking Cur^Ki.^, oui. v. thv largest wrecking companies in the whole ;>outhoa0t, Thoy kvc bue« t-y.ru

.for years. There were ^cree of used car:.' tltere.

We got up tfc bill, and t3*aro are two viotiactc there. .-¾- got up oa top of one of thea. The Ogeaehac Wrockiu* Coapaay is right dom at tbe bottom between the two, oa the hi.-hway.

We stopped ap there, and he said, "If they see ae, that thing costs $2,000! So you two boys go ia and BOO if you can i*l».l one. fcjJUoa and myself will ride on up the road, aad coae back. Vie* 11 -,wrk here ou the causeway, and •we'll wait for you."

So we went in. We went throm;! hurrieily, but vo Itad to Lili• an, the way through. *e went all tb« vay through, oat* uida't eve* Cite* tbe firet Model. A that was atiyvhure now - coaplate aatonobtl-.;. . u ui&t find a rear end, or something like that tiere an. there, but not as auto• mobile. There waa nothing to give hia what tau waatea. He a Mo*.i a

-18- ear waa waat he wanted;, ao we ware looking for a Model A ear, a wreck.

Hi eaae oa back, because Carl Selmlta, the engineer there, knew pretty veil what we wanted, aoa he aaM there was notliing toere.

So ve came hack oat*

When v* want down the Mil, Hr. Ford had two transients stopped, two hoy®, aad he was talking to them. Ho vrac Icrvlic u, bi£ tiae talhiv to them, e© ve waited till he finished Me coavcrcatica vita ibou. »tu gave them five- 'hacks apiece.

Be was talking to them about their experianceo ou the way uova frem up in tbe Sev Sngland stateo somewhere. He asked them juestiotu like,

"When did you leave ftasaaehusotta?" (or waerever they left from). "Bow long haws you been ©a the route? lew do you Mke thumbing your way**, aad so forth. Anyway, be gave them five bucks apiece.

Be turned to us aad said, **Well, did you have any luck?*

"Bo, sir."

Be laughed. Bo said, '"*Bm aaay auteraebilee do you think arc out theref*

We guessed, and we wore all within two or three hundred of each other. Bow l*ve Judgod cows, and a number of tillage on a walk, pretty good. Be said, "Mall, these** £,5<» cars out there."

B© bit it pretty veH ri.litJ I've asked a boy that worker there since, not long after that, and be said there were between 2,iJQu am? 3,>i0w cars out there. 1 toM bla that W* Ford ©attested It at 2,500, ami he

-19- said, "!isll» he's shout right. that's about ttet'a out there.*

Mr. Ford said, "Just think of that! faenty-five taaoretl automobiles ia a juatiyard, aad not a Ford to be found! See all those?5*

There mm a bunch of ears lined up ia front with the radiates toward tbe road. Share news (Shewolets, Cbewolets, (fcevroletc, PlyinouthG,

Dodges, all along there. They were complete autwaobiles, Just wrecked.

Be said, there's somcthiiig! She world ean*t see tbat.

They wouldn't believe tbat. Sweaty-five hundred automobiles, and not a

Model A to be found in it. There's ao other company that eouM give you a picture of that kind!"

One day he case in to see ae ansi wmt/ia *i fluia arive rear cad on a tractor. How I gathered tills from tiiiugc m oaid, aac things he would want me to get for him. She idea was for oae wheel to run ia tbe furrow end the other wheel to run oa the bank, with tbe same amount of power being: distributed to both wheels regardless of that position, far tbe wheel in the furrow and tbe one oa the laud tliat you were fireai-iaj, the same power wae to be transmitted to either wheel, regardless oi conditions.

On the regular one, they received the same power, but they got this spider gear bueiuocs ia there. Running into little eoaditione thore, it doesn't get you over the hump, but the fluid drive would take care of

It. I ^thered tbat from the things Mr. Ford told me about it and fross what be wae tinkering on. 1 have board ttr.For d tell, about the ousawr of ;:;ouoX fa still running. I believe tbe last cheek 1¾ bad vac 3,0.>v,0O< ;;odel £*u still running, ©at vas back la 'kg, but recent clieck o];o^ed &i*.u.\- were still 3,(1¾),!¾¾) fcodel f *s owned aad xnuiainf;* ;?eoplu still buying licensee for ttoa every year.

Mr. Ford never paid Buck attrition to rival cure. 2c ajw vaa critical too saieb alor^ those liaes, -Srit rtssuk 1 jaantiysfc?« fc-wforo v.^e tbe strongest one I ever heard froa hia, aad oven tiiea, dida't euli Ui- names of those cars oat at the Junk yard, we were- staatiii\i %» oa that causeway on one side of the OaeeciJee v;Kiel:lag Cocyauy, looiclnc; rijht clown at toem* ®3© xmdiatore were turned to oa, aad they worst no:; Fords? tkoy were other makes. But he didn*t call their aisaccs I wat> fc»e one wuo ait. that, le Just said, "SDwent^flve hundred automobiles, aaa aot a Model A thereJ"

Hs never discussed 10M experimental plana for the flve-eylia&Ier ears at least, aot around me* 1 know of it and beard of it. 1 iawauo-a to ask him, but just never aot around to it.

I do wish that the Ford Motor €0¾¾¾¾- could aond a UUJ; ous to

Boutc 17 and 301 that rides throuclt this uiGtrict where thic i/iantati-ja site and tally the cars. The dealerc iii this country are buying cure off of tbe northern dealers aad seUiu^ ttei iseru* 1 coal/In't MUX: %t>.Q number, but they are buyiac cars off tl*a northern

-21- If yen would take a tally, you could .just sxart ay t, trip through bore. It would bo a lair pioturo to start bulov Jackaoaviilt: - aay, at Orlando, Florida — and eocr.* tiirougfc the eentral part o* state of Florida and right oa up and folio* 301 oa out! thea* tura aa..

come dovn 17 and drive back. That voulu uivv you a picture. Ti*eu &a a*

to 'Virginia Beach and check toe registrations of ford ears- ia imm} m a comparative national checkup.

I just wonder if thin tkias bore doosa*t have ooiaairfiiug to do with it, because everybody is friendly bayard this thing in aore. Vw don't have any eneaties out ia tbe buainesa eoaBwaity. Ve hare favoro*. everybody. If we find anybody bore In trouble, lots of tlswa we tafae thesa in tbe shop and fix them 1¾) and don't charge taea. anything. !^K- of times we do tbat, when it isn't running up into money bat is joat a jsuttur of doing a little Job and getting thea going.

There are autouoblleo. There are trucks. Go to the baioa 'Bag.

Go to any of these big paper companies; Jacksonville, Fernunulas, Savaajjau,

Cbarlestoa, or any of tic logging outfits where the work in tough. ';....-ek what is pulling tbe stuff ia there aau taking it away. «ow the ^obf* take the higbway, aad they have Y'a eoninL ia now, aau ;,:.'e. 2¾¾? uivj doing a good Job, and coming ia aad tailing It. I would certainly afcrltavo a large part of all that to 300a will.

Oh, man, was he! m showed it to him and be toM us. we were follovifir,

-aa- his instructions. "Fix that car! ©aero*© a aaa over there oa tUe highway with a Ford. Something 1© the matter with it. 60 «0 and see what the hell's the matter with It! Get solag!"

We would come out there, aad ii' we couldn't get it £;OlB;_; ri;jht away, we got it away from there, around behind the $aru$o, aixi we fi;;oci it -there. We'dgtst it ©ning too, aad it dida*t cost him anything.

If Mr. Ford beard of anybody 1» trouble iii town, he'd $et that ear out here and get it fisted. It was usually Just some little thins that needed to be fixed -- sorry service from some ansle, somewhere. usually fljaed it, and the mm was hapgy.

Mr. Ford helped ao a lot la ruaaiin the repair shop here* Ife would come .in and talk about these tkiags because he was interested iii them. Bat as -to telling us bow to run things, or directing us — no. that was one of the nice things about aim. le vould let us go and butt our brains outj that was tbe idea be bad here all the way through. In

fact, I van instructed by the Ford organisation, anyway. 1 reckoned 1 vas doing what be wanted done anyway, la all the motor ovwhauline work,

I vas doing it all down the line.

I helped te design this service garage mere, before that, ve

concrete slab down this way from the gas station, and it's there now. !Th&t

vas the garage. It would freeze you to deatii ia the winter, sad t&ere

wasn't enough room to toss a cat ia without getting hair ia your mouth. It waa just aa awful existence iss far *s aaia^ aay lecc-iw £.fejcl»anac--tl work.. You had ©and, grit aad dust klowuc iu ov. yuu oa .•. day.

I just aade a xxaaark *«vttaa tare to fiotat'^gr »4i *i « AS. 1¾.'

I hoped I could got a garage around herej then I could £o Jsewst •-•or; on this efttiswat, or Goraethiuj like -t«._t.

Mr. ford cacao ia there oao day, aaa" IK? oaid, '^ua't yo;. 1;¾;! a garage?*

I said, *]fes, X aura io!:l

•Be said, "Bo you have arv" ^i'.uiuf'

"yes," 1 said, "I hav»: GO;-..*."

"Well,* he said, %et tu-a:i, >uu 1ft* • lout, -shot. ov»~r. H.'il see what we can pick out."

I had three plans sketched out, ao I orou»5ht ther. out. X t-^ld hjha about ttds one, for a setup of thic klad. 1 us-ad tv dv that »u VJC road'«— sake garage plana, change aad resacdol saiXP^* 1 *-'*id that a-;. helped the dealers on the road. they 1-¾! art out<-of-dutc Ivua:-,.1 ri

Service Department and would want it oiwa;>sd c-ronna aad aet ^*¾,- so ti^ could handle acre work aad do a tetter jot, I would &^s^:x - <>-*\ f- ••^. wider doors, grease lifts, wash rackc, aad trua^c like tost; wi'ttooi doing it out in the brood sunshine.

This plan was one thai 1 had r*v suitable - :. Jcuv. A.l...af~ ..iou like this* It took; iato consideration crawler tractors aad spike-1.*!** -i-'-'i Fordson tractors. Half of tbe floor ©a tbe other aide is dirt, no gouging shoes and spike wheels don't do uay ham when you coae in the back door. Oa this Blie is the tinickia., equipment -or robuer-tiro.-i tractors aad mechanical equipment. I had a slab pit ©war on this side for them t© get up there, aad it could "be cleaned and worked on. Thai suited «r« Ford better and m too. I wasn't disappointed ia it too

BUCb.

My automotive steek room ma a little too snail. used to have an automotive stock room with a general stock room, cos&iaea* It needed two aen to look after the automotive truck parts* %e Just had faet-moviag parte, tires end things Mis© that, libeu we Lad vo cut uav-„ here, we moved it out. m just made a little spare tire room out or ihat and put the parts in the general stock room, m cut aosa oa parte ia general. It was too mush, with everything jaaped ia.

Ifeder tbe circumstances, we figured we were goi*! to leave it like tbat until we found out more definitely what the picture wan .:oia: to be. There ia a possibility of sale. Since Mr. Fora'e death, thcr.- is Just te© much stuff ia there. «e can't mem to get it separated and regulated. However, it's "bees cut considerably.

.Mr. Ford had twe Ifercurys down here ia *39* but for soae reason or other he wasn't too such eoM on the bineoln. She Ford ms what be wanted.* le fen one of them (Hereurys) into the private ear, the "Fair bane," himself, lie went to turn it around, and the first thing tie said was, "See? Tkm dam thing Is too long* low If that had boss a Ford, l*d have been all right." fbat wes what he tried to do.

He got into It, and at the angle it was sitting, it wasn't possible for it to be enough room, evea with a Ford. The only tai£#; possible he could have made it with would be a -tractor with a brak*«, %£«ai is, if you could have tied oae brakes oa this side and sieved it around, le whirled it around there aad hit the *fair bane}* that is the private car. Shea he cam down to the garage and asked ae if 1 eoalA fix it.

1 said, "*ee, sir,."

Be said, "One of those damn tercurys." Be wasn't nasty about it. le just said, "One of those nmm .£rcur,/c-.

He said, "I'M not going to "bria^ aay uore of fchot& .;erc.ay:. down here. 1 want the Fords.n

Be always thought Mrs. Ford's ear wae mighty nice, She had a

Lincoln; and it wae an old Lincoln with its face lifted. 1 don't remember what model it was, but they lifted the face oa it every so often, fhey completely lifted 1¾® face oa it and brought it up to modem etandnrus.

It was a alee automobile. It wee the town sedan type vita glass partitions* I did some work on itj serviced it ami checked it. Stmt mm a aloe automobile.

1 took it down to Savannah. Somebody bad messed up the front

-26- wheels. A friend of mine works, for Firestone ir- ro~j-riu\< is about the bast froat-ead aa» ia this whole sou€;eaotora district.

He case up from the ranks aad has been doing nothing but .Crcat-eiid brake work, and hae worked for Firestone for years, fjo X ta'MjLt, J*- better tear down there a.ri ^jot Ulu tc circ, tJhtoii out tiiu rroai •

At shout 65 or 70 miles aa 'hour the steering vbe«l ,'oulv. start to wobble, so he balanced the front end, ldaed it, and 'ixe. it up. that was a nice car.

1 believe tbat was a •38, it vsas the one aba had before the war. It bad tbe torque tube drive and traasveree springs, crosswise.

Mr. Ford did think lots of the old Lincoln he bev-^ tvon-

Lelaad. It was a big Lincoln. r,Ix' you go into a big car, they caul»nvt go round that car there," ho said. "That ic Just the loot worn ia mechanical perfection."

About bis plans for this place, I4r. Ford told as -chic: > said that possibly some day we voul»<. need this i'or soae i>roauetiati :^, ic

1 of the Ford Motor Company. He said, *?Biis is mine.' 1 douH boliv>vu at, termed this, at tbat particular tiae, as in tbe Ford Foundation.

Be said, *This ie mine. It belongs to me personally. 3©j.i. day we may need it ia tbe Ford picture, somewhere. 3¾¾' need a plan* here.0

He came by one day, end I got ia tbe ear with hi/a. tfilson stayed .ia tbe garage, aad I drove hia down to Keller* He lust talked about, this and about tbat.

Speaking. Of religion* to told one day about thiG ^pi3eo:xaiai, alnister idao wanted to get ia aaa take over tills ebagel and run it* Se told hia* That's strictly ooa-deaomlaatioiMilj it is not !3pi-scopai in form*8

Be said, *Bew I*a pretty hard-boiled, hard-beaded, and all that, but X#we got. a certain aaouat o£ religion about ae** Be sold, '% religion work© ia a different way. 1 like to give people things and ao things for people.

*I don't like to crow about it or go around blowing isy own horn. I like to see people develop ana xnrogrese and go places aad make something of themselves. fhat*s ay id«a of progress — people learning to do things with their hands. Shot's ay idea of doing a good

Christian duty — to take a aan with not to© good aa opportunity aad introduce hia to a productive life, fhat is my religion. .Maybe It it a different type of religion than most anybody else that you have heard of* but 1 do have it."

I doa't know about Sr. ford's attitude toward o*@anl&»d religion.

You take ia our case there, we didn't have too much dealings with hia on that. He eaae to the chapel services here every Sunday morning tbat we bad thea.

Mr. Eidson, DeLorge, 1 thiak, and myself were the p*oachero and

used to conduct tbe chapel services ewer here. It s&ms we coalcui't :jct

«4?8- anybody else to do it, Albert is ^piecopuliaa, and -'a*. ;,iasou aw, myself are both freabyterian. Sbey dia, u tima or wo, ,-.ot atner.s, uau they quit, espeeially whea he was here.

We get Bobbie fhompsoa to give the aemorial service. &s'& a» ia Savannah, Bobbie always loved 1¾'. Ford, as well as the rest, of us.

1*11 try to deseribc -that f3orvicc.

It was the favorite hymns of :'x, Ford*a. Of course, Ills favorite -prayer waa Hie Lord*s Prayer* Sfcea uk.ru wore toe rc larrx. tor*

Bobble mad®, assisted by all the rest of as. got ».ith ate aad ili.iaxw oat how to make up this little speech, we kauw that :ir. iora dida*ts oaro about aay praises after be was doau. Ife vuutr./, all or Me pruiser. ca earth. So we just merely tried to ->5t i>Vz crjuiU- .tovn to the actual facts, say those, aad be done.

$bat was held here la the chapel, aad it was printed. :.e >*«. a newspaperman out to cow it, and it wm put in the Savannah fjOTj&aj bows.

Bobble would probably have a copy of that. He's a nice fellow.

that was the general idea* It was the Lord*e Prayer and tbe little remarks that Bobble .aade. Ife merely explained the tuiujs um,^ w*. knew of Mr. Ford, and that we were all going to alas libs. l-\ ooutl H?or i.., and so forth*

My addition to it was, as I've toucbed on the subject before, that the world would miss Ifeary Ford move than the average citizen realised, which is true. Tbat is a broad statement, I know, bat he fourbt ta*e t:.isfpr. that the common ana has to fight for every day, for tbe common swu 53«? common men has to fight for asdsteaea every day.

It was a alee ae»rtel servlee, aad I Just don't remaiaber now, hat I think It vas held oa a Sunday morning. Aa awful lox- p-joj/ie showed ag for our service* 2ae chapel wa® full. Shafc was chortl; cl'ier he died; ia fact, Just "before lie was hurled.

fhey put hia downtown somewhere, lying ia state at the

Episcopalian Cathedral in Detroit. It was a remarkable thing how many thousands of people viewed the body. I'm quite sure 'he waa still there when we bad to go in town and get Robbie to pick the soups, aad be wu© only too glad to come out aad do it. Mr. Catt^eall always thought a lot of

Robbie.

I didn't notice a slackening up of Mr. Ford's interest ia tb© activities down here until be got eiok. All during the war, he waa still very much interested. They drove through on account of tire traffic situation then. He waa very much interested ia thic setup here.

Of course, after he was sick, he didn't contact us oo wuc-b. fhey Just rode him around, aad he'd see this, and he'd want so-and-so done en it. .Even Wilson wasn't with him then. He had* let him go.

Rankin wae with bim, and he'd tell Rankin things tbat he wanted, end Raskin would double back aad toll us. They just wouldn't let bim .:#t out at all.

You see what the union did for aim. the union is largaly

-30- responsible for tbe- old mua be in*; dead, I know it iiuu a lot to Ju witti it. Se wasn't tbe sane mm after bw -*eat uau visaed 54; vita 11»

1 know be was nice to us 'because ve didn't be&Qii^ TO aay oaioa, csu. 1 hope we never do.

1 hope whan 1 get back to x£**u, there will bo aoae of tiiar,.

I was promised I was to go back, ry^^dlssa of hovr Ion;; I stayed kav.

In fact, Charlie Beecbaia, the eastern di/lesion maaar^r ofti» For e X-o-wv

Company, was the aaa who sent me bares and he thought enough of a» to corns back and teH as, when ae heard this was for sale, that 1 was still a Ford Motor Company man, and to eaae oa back. Of course, 2 baa no doubts about it, because I mm told tint, fhey insisted that I eome, aad if I didn't lite It in 30 days or If for any reason 1 couldn't get along here and wanted to go back, my job was still open there.

Saturally, 1 can't deny that it somas somathins to aa to have to leave here. I can't Bay that it doesn't mean something to iaej bus I

just don't want to see the Ford Motor Conpany let this ,;o.

Those boys doa't know what 25 years from now is eoins to bring.

Twenty-five years from now, thay will all have children. Maybe aot all of thea, but young Henry Ford II wills he is having children. Tbe cm that married the Firestone daughter, why, they're going to have cMMrea.

Well, that family is going to need something. They're going to need property aad conaectioas, ttoou^iiout the universe.

We are right cm the Atlantic Ocean, and we've got a piece of

-31- property here that it is aa ijspossibility to put a price oa it of what its actual value is, what it's worm. Yoa couldn't do it.

I don't care if they erulee it every hour from now until doomsday to actually get the value of tain piece of proi>erty, I junt don't see how they could do it. Look at tiie miles of waterfront they've got aad two railroads running through it; Boute 17 running through it, you might say. Back oa the other side is ours. We ^ola this road. There is a little piece of property that doesn't belong to us, but we've $ot a lot of properly oa the other side of the Mgjuway.

Tbat swamp property in every bit ours. It's worthless erejept for timber, but there's thousands upon thousands of feet of iiardwoot: there tbat is $oing to be valuable sorda day. I don't knov vhest, but it's going to be valuable.

Shew are certain times of the year when it 1« a resort. It wouldn't be a resort for thai, but the tiae of the year that they would want to he off from a resort, it la all right, la winter it's a alee resort*

It is no distance at all from here to aay place they would want to go in the South. We have the Ogoechee River where they could pull their yachts right in dovn here, fhey have a yacht U%sin uown tlscre.

I don't know whether it would* handle & bi<; yacht. It wouldn't habile a very big oae without being drt-ujed, but c» small yacht, like it votil. probably be, eould go clear a? end down froa here to Fernandlna, araaawiek,

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Index

Allis Chalmers eagtn©, 9 Anderson, Hugh, 9 Beeehanu Charles. 31 Campsall, Frank, 30 ftsLorge, Albert, a6^S9 ©ttblla Hospital, $ lldsea, W. B., 28-29 %iseopsllsn Cs4b»4ial, Detroit, 30 "Fair Lane,* 25-26* Firastoae, Bwrvey 8., 31 Firestone f tro & fnfiber Ooapsny, 27 Ford, Clara, 26" Ford, Henry, T Accident, driving (Richmond Hill), 1¾-^ Competitors, attitude toward, 21 Cylinder sleeves, steel, 13 Ford-for-President boom, 1-3 Funeral service, Richmond Hill, 29-30 Health, 30-31 Lincoln ear, attitude toward, 25-27 Mechanical interesta, 1^-23 Model A, views on, 17-20 Model T, views on, 16-17, 21 Politics, interest in, 1 Race, views on, 2 Religion, views on, 28-29 Richmond Hill Plantation, interest ia, 0-^, 11-12, 23-25,1 27-89 Senatorial Election, 19X0, l Service, interest in, 23 Southern states, good will of, 21-23 Tractor fluid drive, design of, 20-21 Transmission, Model T, 15-17 Ford, Henry II, 31 Ford, William Clay, lire., 31 Ford Motor Company Branch Operations, Domestic Jacksonville, 6-9 Engineering Cylinder sleeves, steel, 12-13 Ford, V-8, 1937, 12-14 Industrial Relatione

Wages, 5-6, 8

~35~ Tbe ENdJBiaeeaoM of Hr, Baseaa Mabaffey

Index

Ford Motor Company Plant Eagiseerlag Branebea Jaoksonvlllfi, o-S Sales Soatbera states, £1-22 Tractors Sales Dealer demonstrations, 3-i? Wages, 5-6 Ford Trade School, Richmond Hill, 10-11 Oeorgla, farming in, 2~k Gregory, £. T., 6-9 Keller Plantation, 27 Mabaffey, Mr, (father of Bascom ikih&ffey), 1-2 Ogeechee River, 32 Ogeeebee Wreckine Ca^pacof, 13, ¢1 Rankin, Robert, 30 Richmond Hill Plantation, 3-12, 23«£5, 87-2¾ 31-33 Savannah Morning lews, 2§ Scbultz, Carl7lS^9 Shaw, J. S., Motor Ceapaay, 3*¾ Thomson, Robbie, 29-30 Union Bag and Paper Ccsayaay, 22 Walkor-Sbaw engine, 9 Wilson, Rufus, 10, 27, 30 World War I, 9