[Edward Rankin discusses his career as an inventory clerk, manager, and sales representative at REO Motor Car Company and Diamond REO Trucks, Inc.].

Edward Rankin recalls his career as an inventory clerk, manager, and sales representative at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, MI, between 1947 and 1973. Rankin talks about his youth and being hired at REO, and speaks nostalgically about REO social life, worker sports teams...

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Corporate Author: REO Memories (Project)
Other Authors: Rankin, Edward R. (Interviewee), Fine, Lisa M. (Interviewer), Bradley, Shirley J. (Interviewer)
Language:English
Published: [1992]
Subjects:
Rankin, Edward R. > Interviews.
Rankin, Edward R.
Rankin, Edward R. > Childhood and youth.
Reo Motor Car Company > Interviews.
Diamond REO Trucks, Inc. > Interviews.
Reo Motor Car Company > Buildings.
Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews.
Automobile industry and trade.
Industrial recreation > Michigan > Lansing.
Business travel > Iraq.
Business travel > Lebanon.
Trucks > Marketing.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (91 min., 40 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format: Audio Software
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Edward Rankin recalls his career as an inventory clerk, manager, and sales representative at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, MI, between 1947 and 1973. Rankin talks about his youth and being hired at REO, and speaks nostalgically about REO social life, worker sports teams and the beautiful Olds family pipe organ featured at the REO Clubhouse. He also describes sales trips to Iraq and Lebanon on behalf of REO, the intricacies of foreign markets and general market pressures in the truck business. 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 16255
Playing Time:01:31:40
System Details:Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
Event Details:
Interviewed and recorded in Lansing by Shirley J. Bradley and Lisa M. Fine, Jan. 28, 1992.