[Eileen Nortman discusses her career at REO Motor Car Company].

Eileen Nortman talks about her brief tenure at the REO Motor Car Company in Lansing, MI. Nortman describes growing up in Williamston, Mi, starting at REO in 1943, at the age of 17 and leaving in 1945 to join the Navy. She talks about shop conditions, her jobs at REO, car-pooling, gas rationing, and...

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Corporate Author: REO Memories (Project)
Other Authors: Nortman, Eileen (Interviewee), Fine, Lisa M. (Interviewer), Bradley, Shirley J. (Interviewer)
Language:English
Published: [1993]
Subjects:
Nortman, Eileen > Interviews.
Nortman, Eileen.
Nortman, Eileen > Childhood and youth.
Reo Motor Car Company > Interviews.
Automobile industry workers > Michigan > Lansing > Interviews.
Automobile industry and trade.
Work environment > Michigan > Lansing.
Commuting > Michigan.
Women automobile industry workers > Employment > Michigan > Lansing.
Interpersonal relations > Michigan > Lansing.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (39 min., 45 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format: Audio Software
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Eileen Nortman talks about her brief tenure at the REO Motor Car Company in Lansing, MI. Nortman describes growing up in Williamston, Mi, starting at REO in 1943, at the age of 17 and leaving in 1945 to join the Navy. She talks about shop conditions, her jobs at REO, car-pooling, gas rationing, and women working in the plant, and how she and other women got along with male employees. 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 16274
Playing Time:00:39:45
System Details:Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
Event Details:
Interviewed and recorded in East Lansing, MI, by Shirley J. Bradley and Lisa M. Fine, Jan. 28, 1993.