[Arthur Frahm discusses his career as a bookkeeper and purchasing agent at REO Motor Car Company and Diamond REO Trucks, Inc.].

Arthur Frahm recalls his career as a bookkeeper and purchasing agent at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, Mi, between 1947 and 1972. Frahm describes his job buying almost everything used in the factory, the constant turmoil as REO changed hands over the years, the decline of...

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Corporate Author: REO Memories (Project)
Other Authors: Frahm, Arthur (Interviewee), Fine, Lisa M. (Interviewer), Bradley, Shirley J. (Interviewer)
Language:English
Published: [1992]
Subjects:
Frahm, Arthur > Interviews.
Frahm, Arthur.
Frahm, Arthur > Trials, litigation, etc.
Frahm, Arthur > Childhood and youth.
Reo Motor Car Company > Interviews.
Diamond REO Trucks, Inc. > Interviews.
Reo Motor Car Company > History.
Reo Motor Car Company > Trials, litigation, etc.
Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews.
Automobile industry and trade.
Industrial procurement > Michigan > Lansing.
General strikes > Michigan > Lansing.
Automobile industry and trade > Social aspects > Michigan > Lansing.
Pension trusts > Termination.
Spartan Motors, Inc. > History.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (117 min., 36 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format: Audio Software
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Arthur Frahm recalls his career as a bookkeeper and purchasing agent at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, Mi, between 1947 and 1972. Frahm describes his job buying almost everything used in the factory, the constant turmoil as REO changed hands over the years, the decline of the company, his own discharge, and his unsuccessful class action law suit filed against REO. Frahm also talks about his education, childhood in Lansing, the Lansing Labor Holiday and the 1937 strikes, REO’s involvement in the community, the destruction of the worker's pension fund, the start of Spartan Motors, and his career after REO. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
Note:Title supplied.
Electronic resource.
Call Number:Voice 16257
Playing Time:01:57:36
System Details:Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
Event Details:
Interviewed and recorded in Lansing by Shirley J. Bradley and Lisa M. Fine, Feb. 10, 1992.