[Raymond Fuller discusses his career at REO Motor Car Company and Diamond Reo Trucks, Inc., in Lansing, MI].

Raymond Fuller discusses his career at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc., in Lansing, MI, from 1943 to 1975. Fuller recalls hiring in as a repairman, the war years, wage structures, and different factory bosses. He also describes testing amphibious military vehicles on Houghton Lake, pl...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: REO Memories (Project)
Other Authors: Fuller, Raymond (Interviewee), Fuller, Raymond, Mrs. (Interviewee), Fine, Lisa M. (Interviewer), Bradley, Shirley J. (Interviewer)
Language:English
Published: [1992]
Subjects:
Fuller, Raymond > Interviews.
Fuller, Raymond, > Mrs. > Interviews.
Fuller, Raymond.
Reo Motor Car Company > Interviews.
Diamond REO Trucks, Inc. > Interviews.
Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews.
Automobile industry and trade.
Wage payment systems > Michigan > Lansing.
Executives > Michigan > Lansing.
Motor vehicles, Amphibious > Michigan > Houghton Lake > Testing.
Humor in the workplace > Michigan > Lansing.
Industrial recreation > Michigan > Lansing.
Women automobile industry workers > Employment > Michigan > Lansing.
Plant shutdowns > Michigan > Lansing.
Families > Michigan > Lansing.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Oral histories.
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Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (76 min., 12 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format: Audio Software
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Raymond Fuller discusses his career at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc., in Lansing, MI, from 1943 to 1975. Fuller recalls hiring in as a repairman, the war years, wage structures, and different factory bosses. He also describes testing amphibious military vehicles on Houghton Lake, playing pranks on co-workers, bowling at the REO Clubhouse, and the status and treatment of women in the factory. The last days of REO were very sad, he says and the end had a devastating affect on local families. 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 16263
Playing Time:01:16:12
System Details:Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
Event Details:
Interviewed and recorded in Mulliken, MI, by Shirley J. Bradley and Lisa M. Fine, Mar. 19, 1992.