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B-003: The ACF Industries Archival Collection Inventories, 30-37

This page contains descriptions or inventories for collections 30-37 in archival collection B-003: The ACF Industries Archive:

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Collection #30: New York Historical Files

12 Boxes. D10 #Al-12. (Provenance Maintained)

These were built up over many years by ACF's Secretarial Department at ACF Headquarters in New York. They were shipped to the Archive during 1977. Provenance has been maintained, although at first glance, the arrangement is a little confusing. Generally speaking, the arrangement is by plant, by division and by subsidiary. The files include records of defense activities also, and a rudimentary biographical file. The Jackson & Sharp box (115) is particularly interesting. Not only does it contain some of the oldest material in the entire collection, (some of it 100 years of age), it is a unique glimpse at a "store front" car building company of the 19th century.

Collection #30, Box #1

  1. ACF Huntington Plant - Material Left Over from Army Flat Cars, Photos of Stocks of Surplus Material.
  2. ACF Huntington Plant - Material Left Over from Army Flat Cars 112, Photos of Stacks of Surplus Material
  3. H. ACF Huntington Plant - LST's European, Action Photos of LSTs, 12 Negatives
  1. H. ACF Huntington Plant - LSTs Pacific, Action Photos of LSTs, 19 Negatives
  1. H. ACF Huntington Plant Publicity, Clips &: Press Releases
    • 5a. Huntington Misc.: Certificate of incorporation of Ensign Mfg. Co., Maps of Ensign, ACF plant sites, deed of Ensign properties to ACF, photostats of histories of Huntington.
    • 5b. Huntington Misc.: Envelope of photos of Huntington plant taken in 1973. Color and black &: white, with negatives.
    • 5c. Huntington Misc.: "Permit for construction of logway for Thornton Mill, Scraps of paper with ACF employment notice, 1916; Ensign shop rules, photo of Ensign works, - - 1882. Photo of Ensign works 1889, with note "Belongs to Walter Edmonds 4/6/77".
    • 5d. Huntington Misc.: Ledger of Materials on one flat car ordered by Tidewater Rg. (1907)
    • 5e. Title abstract of ACF Huntington properties
    • 5f. Bound map (on canvas) of ACF Huntington properties
    • 5g. Huntington Herald-Dispatch Bicentennial ed.
  1. H. ACF Jeffersonville Plant: Print of Jeffersonville plant, several memos
    1. 6a. Jeffersonville - Historical Photo of office of Falls Cities Transfer Co., clippings re Ohio Falls Car Works, memo re W. E. Hedgcock (old employee).
  1. H. ACF Jeffersonville Plant - Ohio Falls Car Works: Photo of ACF Jeffersonville lumber yard c. 1900, 8 photos of workers and 1 photo of managers of Ohio Falls Car Works.
  1. H. ACF Madison Plant - Landing Mats: U Photos of airplane landing mats - 11 negatives
  2. H. Madison Plant: 2 historical memos, clipping on landing mats from New York Journal- American 1943, print of Madison plant, photos of Louisiana Purchase Exposition awards, 1 photo of one of the Madison buildings. (3 glass negatives of LPE photos removed)
  3. Madison Plant Buildings, Offices - Historical Photos of Buildings, offices, managers and a few workers, with captions, 1 envelope with 6 negatives, 1 envelope with 7 negatives, 1 envelope with 2 negatives of Madison plant interior (no prints).
    • 10a. Historical - Madison Clippings and press releases on sale of Madison plant, dinner program - 50th anniversary for Thomas A. Dooley.
  4. H. Combat Tanks - Assembly St. Charles Plant Prints of tank assembly line, 1 negative.
  5. H. Hospital Unit Cars - Publicity, St. Charles, Missouri Floor plan of hospital unit car, press releases
  6. H. St. Charles - Hospital Unit Cars: Memos and correspondence re conversion of hospital cars, historical record "A. memo of St. Charles plant, clippings of various wartime St. Charles plant products; including Motorailers, tanks, and hospital cars.
  7. H. Hospital Cars - Action, Korea 5/55: Photos of Korean war with emphasis on rail stock.
  8. H. Hospital Cars - St. Charles, Missouri May 1954, U. S. Government Transport Corps - Photos of ACF built kitchen, dining and storage cars, ambulance personnel cars and hospital cars.
  9. H. Hospital Cars - Action News Services: 1 clip from New York Times, several photos of hospital cars in use from both WWII and Korean. 4 negatives.
  10. St. Charles Plant - Hospital Unit Cars: Photos of workers in plant building cars, shoveling coal, etc., I envelope with 10 negatives, 1 envelope with 20 negatives, and prints of inspection tour of cars.
  11. Historical Plants - St. Louis Plant and Foundry: Ms of article written by Louis Wynne Martin, "St. Louis and The Railway Equipment Industry" dated April 9, 1941. Summary of development of St. Louis ACF plant.
  12. H. Exhibition Hospital Unit Cars - Denver, Kansas City, Omaha Lot 2733 h - Photos of exhibition of cars, with captions.
  13. H. Exhibition - Hospital Unit Cars - St. Louis Lot 2733: Photos of exhibition. 2 negatives.
  1. H. Exhibition - Washington - Hospital Unit Cars Lot 2733: Photos of cars, exhibition, Chairman Hardy and Army press. Unattached captions.
  2. Hospital Unit Cars - St. Charles, Missouri Lot 2733 Photos of company and army officials in front of cars.
  3. St. Charles - Historical File: Copies of St. Charles Daily Banner News, Bicentennial issue, 2 photos from St. Charles Historical Society of first locomotive in St. Charles (c. 1856) and early group of ACF workers and managers; St. Charles Bicentennial Program Book, ACF Aircraft Division facility brochure.
  4. Shippers History 6: 2 copies historical memo on Shippers Car Line; resume of Portland plant; 1y:l: - press release - Shippers Car Line Division: A Business with More than 34169 "Plants"; press release Shippers Car Line Division ACF Milton, Pennsylvania plant, prints of primitive tank cars.
  5. Amcar - Historical File: Memo, ACF History in Brief.
  6. Color Photos: Color photos of passenger cars built in St. Charles in 1950's - publicity action shots.
  7. Misc. Railroad Pictures - Passenger Cars Built at St. Charles late 1940's early 50's; Photos, construction and action shots, 1 negative hospital unit car.
  8. St. Charles Story: Shots of St. Charles homes, misc. St. Charles (city) historical pamphlets\

Collection #30, Box #3

  1. H. ACF St. Louis Foundry: Press releases and clippings re foundry's safety record. Memo re magazine references.
  2. H. ACF St. Louis Plant: Photo c. 1907 of workers (with negative); prints of St. Louis plant, car repair shops, casting and wheel foundry; memos re exploitation of tank building programs, and kitchen cars in advertising. Press releases and clippings. Memo re historical record of St. Louis plant during WWII.
  3. H. Historical Wrecks - (A. E. Ostrauder File): Photos and clippings of wrecks with letters to St. Louis plant.
  4. H. ACF Terre Haute Plant Print of Terre Haute Plant: Print of Terre Haute Plant 
  5. Historical - Wilmington Plant History: Memo on phone interview with former Wilmington employees, letters, copy of "Boating" article on old Wilmington built yacht, copy of specs of yacht.
  6. Wilmington Plant: Copy of Delaware State archivists report of 1951-1952. Memos and correspondence re disposition of records of Wilmington plant after sale in 1953.
  7. H. ACF Wilmington Plant: 1 photo Jackson &: Sharp plant, 1 print Wilmington ACF plant; correspondence and memos re war products, advertising, etc. 1 letter with excerpt from diary of Job Jackson telling how he formed Jackson and Sharp shops in 1863.
  8. H. ACF Wilmington Plant - History Commendatory Letters ."Review of Naval Ship Building in Wilmington Delaware During WWII", "History of ACF Wilmington plant in WWII", other brief summaries of ACF - Wilmington and Jackson and Sharp history. Memos, correspondence and clippings re wartime activities at ACF - Wilmington. 1 memo with quote from diary of Job Jackson in 1863 re founding of Jackson &: Sharp Shops.
  9. Envelope with Misc. Photos and Negatives: Both wartime and turn of the century photos. 16 negatives.
  10. Wilmington Boat Catalog Excerpts: Xerox copies of parts of boat catalog.
  11. H. ACF Wilmington Plant - Publicity: Clippings and press releases of WWII activity.
  12. H. ACF Wilmington Plant - Navy "E" Award: Clippings, press releases, house and navy publication re "E" award and ship 1aunchings, etc. Correspondence re presentations ceremony.
  13. H. ACF Wilmington - Tank Lighters: Correspondence and memoranda on publicity of tank lighters.
  14. Wilmington: Photo of ship 
  15. H. ACF Wilmington Plant - Army-Navy “E": Photos of Army-Navy "Ell award ceremony. 7 negatives.
  16. Color Photos - From File 15: 3 color photos of WWII ship launching ceremony.
  17. H. ACF Wilmington Plant - Landing Craft: Action photos of ACF built landing craft. 12 negatives.
  18. H. ACF Wilmington Plant - Launching: Photos of ship launchings, with captions. 4 small negatives, 3-8xlO negatives.
  19. H. ACF Wilmington Plant - Misc.: Photos of shipyard, preparations for ceremonies, honor rolls, etc. 6 small negatives, 1 photo of J&S built postal car for 1893 Columbian Exposition, photos from ACF catalog, etc. 5 large negatives
  20. H. ACF Wilmington Plant - Mortuary Car, 2 photos
  21. H. ACF Wilmington Plant - Pontons: 8 negatives and action and construction shots of pontons. Press release on pontons
  22. H. ACF Wilmington Plant - Salvage Boats: Construction & launching photos. Several views of completed vessel. 3 negatives.
  23. ACF Wilmington Plant - Sub Chaser Photos of sub chaser at various speeds and with launching
  24. H. ACF Wilmington Plant - Net Tenders - Photos of net tender in action, under construction and at launching. 7 negatives.
  25. H. ACF Wilmington Plant - Minesweeper: Photos of minesweepers. 5 negatives.
  26. Woodwork - Wilmington: Catalog material, advertising copy for woodwork, 1 memo re order for Brooklyn church of our Our Lady of Guadalupe.
  27. Book 1: Photos of shipment of railway cars being loaded on freighter, rail trucks, misc. dry ice containers for various customers
  28. Book 2 (On Label #23): Interior and exterior shots of 70', 42' and 54' cabin cruisers, construction progress photos of 38' cabin cruiser.
  29. Book 3 (On Label #6): Shots of architectural woodwork in residences, Princeton University, University of Delaware, Wilmington Public Library, and other places. Construction shot of Staircase, misc photos of various types of work with Wilmington Chamber of Commerce on R. back.
  30.  Book 4 - United States Navy - Bureau of Ships Ord Lot #141 Minesweepers B4MS 31-36, Progress Photographs. - Progress and launching photos of ships in this group

Collection #30, Box #4

  1. Ord #42 - 45' Steel Tank Lighter Photographs Interior and exterior shots mounted in book.
  2. Quartermaster Corps - War Dept. - Ord Lot #121 40 - 50' Steel Truck Lighter. Progress photographs. Photo of interior and exterior and packaging for shipping.
  3. Photo Book: Photos of construction and structural details of Ord lot 29 - 45' tank lighters
  4. Photo Book: Same photos as above plus photos of trial run and completed vessel.
  5. Photo Book - Shipyard Lot #707 - 65'6" Diesel Steel Tug Boat (1938) .Construction photos and completion photos.
  6. Photo Book - Yacht Lot 557 (1923): Construction and completed interior and exterior views
  7. Photo Book - Yacht Lot 557 (1921 - 1923): Complete progress photos.
  8. Photo Book - Yachts Lots 611, 612 (1925): Progress photos.
  9. Photo Book - Dump Scows & Barges, Photos and blueprints for scows, ledger sheet with costing on dump scow orders; lots 434, 455, 469, 470, 476, 480, 481, (1913 - 1915), Lots 554, 556 (1921), other dump scows lighter orders 1923-1930
  10. Photo Book - Sub Chasers: Completion, launching and progress photos of sub chasers, 1917.
  11. Photo Book - Ord #292, U.S. Navy 122 Tank Lighters LCM(3) - Completion photos.
  12. Photo Book - Ord Lot #113-2 183' Wooden Salvage Vessels ' Construction, completion, launching photos
  13. Photo Book - "Photos taken by Mr. J. H. Connaway of various lots August 18 & 19, 1943 Misc. construction photos.
  14. Jackson & Sharp - ACF Wilmington Misc. Historical File i Business cards, clippings, letters, payroll record; photos of Wilmington plant in use by various tenants 1948-1953 with negatives.

Rest of Box filled with Jackson & Sharp contracts (undescribed).

Collection #30, Box #5

Box filled with uncataloged Jackson & Sharp legal records

Collection #30, Box 6

  1. Print of Berwick plant.
  2. Historical and biographical annals of Columbia & Montour counties, Pennsylvania 1915 Excerpts - Xeroxes of sections of book dealing with ACF and Berwick, Pennsylvania predecessor company, Jackson & Woodin.
  3. Berwick Historical Society 100th Anniversary of Founding of Berwick Plant .Correspondence with Berwick Co. Historical Society.
  4. Berwick Historical Society 100th Anniversary of Founding of Berwick Plant 2 copies of Berwick Enterprise 100th anniversary issue, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs Journal Volume 8 #7w., "Berwick Car Works Centennial"; 1930 census report on Pennsylvania.
  5. Subway Car Photos and Daily News Story of NYC Flushing Line (1948)
  6. Booklet "Official Inspection by Hon. William O'Dwyer of NYC's First Postwar Subway Car (1948)
  7. Booklet "The Story of Berwick 1786-1936"
  8. Xerox of Jackson & Woodin article - above booklet
  9. Looseleaf notebook with pictures a caps "This is Berwick, Pennsylvania ACF": Photos of plant and products.
  10. Looseleaf notebook re ACF scrap metal collection
  11. Looseleaf notebook re ACF scrap metal collection
  12. Historical Berwick - Nazi Flag: Correspondence re presentation of captured Nazi flag to Berwick plant. Photos of flag on display. 1 negative.
  13. Historical Files - Berwick Enterprise Fifty Years: Clippings of ACF Berwick, W. H. Woodin obit, etc., photos of various pages of Berwick Enterprise ranging from 1904 - 1949. negatives.
  14. Historical Records - Berwick Plant Old Photo 1 print, 1 negative of print of Berwick plant.
  15. Historical Berwick Plant - Biographical data for Army Ord. Charts, graphs, 'L ' short press release articles on production at Berwick with emphasis on WWI ordinance production.
  16. Historical - Berwick Plant - Tanks, Combat: Correspondence re advertising uses of tanks. Clippings, 1 transcript in New York Railroad Club Office Proceedings of presentation of tank production at Berwick.
  17. Historical Berwick Plant - Commendatory Letters: Correspondence re commendations, bib of magazine articles on ACF Berwick.
  18. Historical Plants - Berwick: Notebook from Jackson & Woodin Co. (blank in envelope) clippings, press releases, 1947 memo on Berwick plant history.
  19. Historical - Berwick Plant History
    • Milestones in history of Berwick plant, memos, historical record of the ACF
    • Berwick plant WWII - 2 copies 1 draft copy
  20. Historical Berwick - Publicity Clippings Clippings and news releases re WWII.
  21. Historical Berwick Plant - Publicity Talks: Clippings, press releases, manuscripts of speeches by company officials on aspects of war work.
  22. Historical Berwick Plant - Russian Mobile Units: Clippings, etc. re mobile electrical generators mfg. in Berwick and shipped to Russia.
  23. Historical Berwick Plant - Tanks 1000R, 2000R, 15224R (last): Correspondence and publicity re ceremonies for Russian tanks.
  24. Historical Berwick Plant - ACF Song: Correspondence with music publishers re ACF songs for various plants, especially Berwick.
  25. Historical Berwick Plant - Biographical Data for Army Ord.: Charts, graphs and press releases. Map of Berwick plant site.
  26. Historical Berwick Plant - Tractors: Correspondence and memos re photos of Caterpillar tractors built for Corps of Engineers. Some correspondence with Army officer in charge of production program.
  27. Historical - Berwick Plant - Commendatory Letters: Letters commending ACF products from various officers and civilian officials in War and Navy departments
  28. Historical Berwick Plant - Women in Production: Photos and signed releases of women workers on the job. Photos of tanks being tested and inspected by officials.
  29. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks Middle East, China-Burma-India, Philippines Photos of Stuart tanks in action. 13 negatives
  30. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - U.S. Signal Corps: Photos by Signal Corps of tanks being shipped, on maneuvers, etc. Includes photo of Gen. Geo. Patton with his personal Tank. 11 negatives
  31. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tractors and Bulldozers (Action): Photos of tractors and bulldozers in action. Clippings. 14 negatives
  32. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tractors "Machinery" Magazine: Photos of machinery 
  33. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tractors and Bulldozers: Photos of caterpillars, tractors and plant mangers, workers, etc. Clippings.

Collection #30, Box #7

  1. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - Sicily, France, Italy Tanks in action. 12 negatives
  2. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - Russia, Yugoslavia Tanks in action. 5 negatives.
  3. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - Guadalcanal, Solomons, Bouganville, Saipan Tanks in Action. 6 negatives
  4. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - New Guinea, Bismark Island Tanks in action. 9 negatives.
  5. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - Marshall Islands, Aleution Islands Tanks in action. 5 negatives
  6. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - International News Service Tank construction shots, with workers.
  7. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - Kodachrome 1 color negative
  8. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - "Machinery" Magazine Photos of machinery and tanks in production.
  9. H. ACF Berwick Plant - "Night Patrol" Photos of plant guards and dogs.
  10. Historical ACF Berwick Plant - Police Women: Photos of police women employed at plant to supervise behavior of female employees. 1 negative.
  11. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - Test Run: Photos of tanks being tested on obstacle courses. 1 negative.
  12. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - Germany, Belgium: Tanks in action. 4 negatives
  13. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - England, Ireland, Brazil, New Zealand: Tanks being unloaded, on parade. 6 negatives.
  14. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - North Africa, Western Desert: Tanks in action. 16 negatives.
  15. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - Production: Shots of tanks on assembly line.
  16. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - Suspension Unit: 3 photos of tank suspension unit. 1 broken down and labeled.
  17. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - Turret: Shots of turret assembly line, installation, etc. 
  18. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks 1000R. Photos of presentation ceremony of 1000R tank. 3 negatives.
  19. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks 2000R. 2000R tank with people.
  20. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks 14000R. 14000R. tank, brass plate on side, people.
  21. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks 15,224R (Last): Photos of last tank, group shots, misc. tank photos. 14 negatives.
  22. Ring-bound Notebook, "Progressive Stages of Construction of Tank Destroyer" L. L. Snyder - Photos.
  23. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tank - Acme: Photos by Acme of tank production and inspection trips.
  24. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - M3A3 (Snyder): Photos of tanks in production and being tested. 4 negatives
  25. Berwick Misc.: Clippings.
  26. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - Negatives for Slides (F. A. Stevenson Talk) 22 negatives.
  27. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tanks - Construction Details: Photos of assembly lines, construction of tanks, workers.
  28. Berwick - Machines: Photos of machines and workers at Berwick plant. 
  29. H. ACF Berwick Plant - S. W.O.C.: Photos of signs stating SWOC and USW anti-strike pledge.
  30. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tank - Progressive: Photos of tanks still and on test course. 7 negatives.
  31. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tank Destroyers: 2 photos of tank destroyers, with captions.
  32. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Armor Plate: Photos of fabrication of steel armor plate, action shots of half tracks, charts of armor plate production and rejections. 2 negatives.
  33. Bombs - Berwick: Photos of fabrication and stacks of bombs.
  34. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Russian Cars (Acme): Photos of cars, inspection tours by U.S. Officers, Russian officers, Handy and other company officials, Brochure of "ACF 3000 KW Mobile Steam Power Plants for USSR."
  35. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Russian Cars (General Electric) - Photos of cars, interior of power plant, American, Russian and ACF officials, 8 negatives. Brochure "Presentation of 1st 3000 KW Mobile Steam Power Plants for USSR".
  36. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Russian Cars Construction and shipment shots. 1 set drawings.
  37. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Scrap Iron: Press release and photos of plant.
  38. Tanks Combat - Berwick: Photos of construction of tanks, assembly line.
  39. H. ACF Berwick Plant Army-Navy "E": Photos of presentation ceremony.
  40. H. ACF Berwick Plant - Tank - Assembly Line, Shipment: Photos, self-descriptive.
  41. Berwick: Photos of machinery, assembly lines 1440-45. 3 prints of ACF Berwick plant, Rolling mills and forge department, wheel foundry; steel car plant; car shops and casting and pipe foundries. I photo of workers, no date but probably turn of century.

Collection #30, Box #8

  1. Milton: "The Tank Car Story - Past to Present" talk by C. E. Reedy; "History of the Mil ton Plant" (2 pp 1972), ACF Horizons, 1966 - Photos and blurb. "Here and Now" supplement to Milton Standard, March, 1974.
  2. Blue Cardboard Folder: Copy of "Here and Now" supplement with prints of photos used.
  3. Milton Sesquicentennial: Correspondence of O. Fox and H. Folk re Milton history, copy of Sesquicentennial edition of the Milton Standard (June 19, 1967)
  4. Albuquerque Division: Copies of brochure re functions of Albuquerque plant.
  5. Albuquerque Division - Photos: Black and white photos of various phases of work at Albuquerque plant. Photos of ACF Albuquerque security system for house organ story.
  6. ACF Albuquerque Color Photos: Photo of ACF Albuquerque plant, photos of equipment and machinery.
  7. Albuquerque Division - ACF NewsACF News 1957 - 1967, 10th anniversary address by W. T. Taylor, ACF Albuquerque division brochures (3), program of testimonial dinner for Sen. Clinton Anderson (New Mexico), 1965.
  8. Albuquerque - Local News Releases 1964 - 1967: Copies of press releases or clippings.

Collection #30, Box #9

  1. American Welding Co.: Correspondence and memoranda re P.R. and closing of plant, announcement of appointment of M. A. Cornish as manager during WWIl.
  2. H. American Welding Co.: Memos re war products, "E" award, clippings re wartime activities, article on "Fabricating Pressure Vessels" (1930). 
  3. H. American Welding Co. - Army-Navy "E", Photos of ceremony and award. 1 negative.   
  4. ACF Welding Operations - Passenger Cars: Progress photos of car welder. 6 negatives.
  5. American Welding Company - Morison Furnaces: Photos of furnaces (cutaway and construction shots), photo of plant (Carbondale, Pennsylvania) shortly before closure in 1945. 5 negatives.
  6. American Welding Co. - Historical Material: Programs and invitations to Army-Navy "E" award ceremonies; reprint of "Fabricating Pressure Vessels" Clen &. Met July 1930; Brochure - "High Pressure Tanks" describing Forge welding techniques and A. W. Co. plant; r Morison Corrugated Suspension Furnace Bulletin #100 (1941), Bulletin 2701 (1930); Rowland Containers (pressure containers) Bulletin 2002 (9134), #2901 (1930); Storage Containers Bulletin 3003 (1930).
  7. Avion Product Catalog: Avion product brochures. Letter of recommendation for and article about lab foreman John Leeble. 
  8. Avion Press Releases: Press releases 1957 - 1959, product brochures. 
  9. Photographs - News - Avion: Photos of products and workers, some with captions. 6 negatives.
  10. ACF Brill - Annual Report 1944 - Brill &: Hall-Scott, Literature &: History Brill 1944 annual report, drawing of 600 passenger bus (c. 1942), ad from "Yachting" magazine for ACF cruisers, "Hall-Scott and R. Fairmik" (British PT-type boats), "100 Years of Transit Progress" Mass Transportation September 1951; "Hall-Scott Marine Engineers Aid Invasion and Defense" Machinery, September 1942.
  11. Carter: Background memo on Carter Carburetor Corp.; address (1957) by Charles Heitman; Sales and Service Summary (1936 - 1952); "Remarks by A. C. Korte as Spotlight Speaker" 1964 - includes pictures of old Carter - Carburetor factory, new plant, list of contents of Carter Carburetor Oil Carburetor museum, article re Will Carter, copy of "Carter Means Carburetors" by P. G. Sedley, misc. photos from Korte talk. 1 negative. Photos of Carter plants (with captions) some Carter machines, assembly line (shots; well preserved copy of Scientific American, December 23, 1899.
  12. History ACF, Carter, St. Charles: Souvenir programs, opening of Carter Lafeyette, Tenn. and Sanford, North Carolina plants; leaflet - ACF a St. Charles Tradition; ACF Horizons Fall 1965, "The Carter Story"; 18 page memo "What is ACF".
  13. H. Carter Carburetor Corp.: Reprint of "Shell Fuzes by the Million", American Machinist, July 23, 1942; memos re wartime production, copies of Sales and Service Summary.
  14. Carter History by B. G. Gross: Ms History of Carter Carburetor Division
  15. Carter Fuses: Photos of workers mfg. fuses.

Collection #30, Box #10

  1. Brochure - "Capabilities and Experience in the Nuclear Field", Nuclear Products, ERCO Division
  2. Photographic brochure of ERCO plants and products
  3. ERCO Line of Machinery Products: Pamphlets describing automatic punching and riveting machines, sheet metal forming of flanging machines, and machine tools.
  4. ERCO Division Publications: Pamphlets, brochures on nuclear capabilities, simulators, strech presses, technical and manufacturing capabilities in nuclear products and machinery products.
  5. Photographs - Plant - ERCO: Photos of Riverdale, Maryland plant, workers and machine.
  6. ERCO Plant Photos - Color: 8 mounted color transparencies of above photos.
  7. Brochure - "Nuclear Reactors ACF"
  8. Nuclear Products - ERCO - Literature: Clippings of trade publication advertisements, Nucleonics Markets March- April 1959, brochure "Production Facilities" ERCO, Memos on Advertising of ERCO products.
  9. ACF Electronics Catalogs: Catalogs for ACF ERCO products. Similar to Items 3 & 4.
  10. ACF Electronics News: Copies of house organs March 1963 - January 1964
  11. ACF Electronics - Photos: Photos of products, workers, plants.
  12. Color transparencies of some of above shots.
  13. ACF Electronics Division - Magazines: Advertising brochures and product pamphlets. 
  14. Advertising Photos - Oversize: Photos of model with RTIC General Navigation Pictorial Display

Collection #30, Box #11

  1. Peninsular Plant - "Methods Employed in the Manufacture of 10" Common Steel Shell, MKII"
  2. "ACF - Manufacture of 7.2 Projectiles", Buffalo 1943 Bound volume of photos with captions of ACF Buffalo plant employees, detailed photos of production process and equipment.
  3. " ACF - Manufacture of 14" M.C. Projectile", Buffalo 1945: Bound volume of photos of production process for 14" Navy shells.
  1. "ACF - Manufacture of 155 mm M-I02 Shell Forgings", Buffalo 1943(?): Bound Volume of photos describing production process.

Collection #30, Box #12

  1. Polymer Corporation - Annual Reports since 1956: Reports 1956 - 1973, the Polymer Corp. "Two Decades of Progress 1946- 1966."
  2. H. - Flat Cars - Government: Photos of plant, action photos of flat cars, shipment of cars, inspection of cars by Russian and U.S. officiers. 3 negatives.
  3. H. - Foreign Cars: Pamphlet - "Railroad Equipment Speeds Aid to U.S.S.R." by Col. John A. Appleton, T.C.
  4. Locomotive Transport: Photos of transport built for U.S. Government. Transports were meant to move narrow gauge locomotives. 1 negative.
  5. Publicity - Locomotive Transport Cars ( Clippings and press release.
  6. H. - ACF Wheels: Action and progress photographs of wheels built by ACF. 5 negatives
  7. H. Philadelphia Ordnance Exhibit: Photos of exhibits, children viewing them, etc. 3 negatives.
  8. "Mobilization Planning Study for Rocket 762 mm M31" Honest John"
  9. Photos of St. Charles Plant and Products of Detroit Arsenal: Photos of St. Charles plant, mfg. of aircraft fuselages, and Army photos of vehicles built at Detroit Arsenal.
  10. “Ordnance for Victory": Publicity photos and clippings from exhibit in Philadelphia and correspondence re exhibit.
  11. American Car and Foundry Company's War Activities Publication describing ACF products from WWI.
  12. Cost sheet; 1931 - Cost sheet describing cost per ton of product for ACF foundries broken down by plant.
  13. "Food": Nutritional handbook distributed to ACF employees. .n.d.
  14. Historical Records - Berwick, St. Louis, W-K-M 1962 Correspondence with Joe Saunders (ACF corporate department of public relations) by Henry Bender, Jr. re ACF historical photos, press releases- "Valve Industry Said Prepared For Technical Demand of Next Decade", "WKM Valve Division ACF Industries, Inc." , "ACF Industries, Inc. 1899 - 1955", "Business and Properties of ACF Industries, Inc.", "What is ACF"; Information sheet "Background of ACF Industries, Inc.", address by Wm. Taylor, Chairman of Board ACF, 10th Anniversary of Albuquerque division.
  15. ACF Products October 10, 1931: Xerox of "List of Misc. Products Mfg. by ACF Co. and Assoc. Companies" 1931
  16. 750 Third Avenue: Photos, interior and exterior of ACF Corporate offices.
  17. Historical Records-Corp.: Correspondence re contracts and disposition of corporate historical records and photograph files
  18. Publicity- ACF, What Is: Copies of drafts of p.r. summary of company history, copies of periodicals with ACF references
  19. Background - Corp. (Address by Pres. James F. Clank; "ACF's Story of Diversification (1966); '" "ACF Industries Enjoying 65th Year as a Leading Independent Car Builder"; memo, 1930, re ACF consultant companies; ACF Incorporation papers (New Jersey 1899); "ACF in St. Charles" (final and draft); memo re Carter Carburetor history; press releases re Albuquerque and Riverdale plants; report by Fellowes Davis & Co. on ACF, 1930; "Birth and Growth of Carter", A. C. Korte presentation on Carter Carburetor at ACF marketing meeting 1965 by C. L. Thompson; brochures "Trains of Yesterday", “The Hagley Museum"; ACF Aircraft Division Facility Brochure; 1945 memo on freight car capacities of various plants; memo 1963 Milton plant statistics; "Brief History and Origin of Tank Car Leasing Companies", proof of newspaper feature "ACF Salutes Cabell County"; "Carter Opens New Front in Anti-Smog War"; 1953 radio speech by C. J. Hardy, Jr. re Huntington and ACF. "ACF- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow", misc. clippings; press releases re name change and acquisition of Kerotest Mfg. Co.; Sections on W. K. Bixby from National Cyclopedia of American Biography.
  20. Background "Historic Cars of The Seashore Trolley Museum" with notations of ACF cars on cover; American Cynamid Co. historical brochure; reprint from ACF Transportation News (1928); Products Mfg. by ACF Co. and Assoc. Companies, Carter Carburetor advertisement; products of J. G. Brill, American Car Company, G. C. Kuhlman Car Company, Wasm Mfg. Company; Rowland containers bulletins, slide talk script given by J. F. Burditt on ACF history (1966); speech by Wm. Taylor at Huntington, West Virginia Chamber of Commerce; "Background on Carter Carburetor Division"; ACF: Transportation and Energy; Xerox copies of articles on company history - ACF house organs; story on Polymer; addresses by Chairman Taylor before Washington D.C. Society of Investment Analysts, (1961) and St. Louis Society of Financial Analysts (1963); major products of Carter Carburetor Department, 1930 memo "Account of Activities of ACF Motors Company. II
  21. Presentation of AMA Conference on Mergers and acquisitions, 1956
  22. Advertising and Publicity - ACF History: Letter of commendation on Stuart tanks, memos re collection of plant histories and historical materials 1906 - 1950. Correspondence of W. K. Bixby, Robt. Scott (Hall-Scott); George Mand (Asst. Secty. ACF); with F. A. Stevenson, Hugh H. C. Weed (Carter Carburetor, other division deads c. 1930)
  23. Fortune - July 1930 "ACF" Xerox of article on ACF
  24. Publications - National Cyclopedia of American Biography . Correspondence re biographics of ACF officials for NCAB.
  25. Historical Records - Advertising and Publicity: Memo from Joseph Snyder recounting ACF historical an dotes related by- retired employee; page from book kept by receptionist in 1 15.
  26. Portraits of ACF Company Officials ( (Probably miscaptioned.)
  27. William H. Woodin: Biographical sketches and clippings, photo and negative.
  28. Frederick A. Stevenson: Press releases and clippings re Stevenson
  29. Charles J. Hardy, Jr.: Obits, Fortune article, New York Times profile, background bio. memos, photos {include testimonial dinner). 7 negatives.
  30. Charles J. Hardy, Sr.: Press releases, obits, photos, obit of wife, clippings. 1 negative.
  31. Frederick H. Eaton: Biographical sketch, photos, 1 negative. 
  32. William K. Bixby Article on Bixby and Burns Club of St. Louis, correspondence re article, title page of ACF 1909 annual report. Obit on W. H. Bixby (W. K. Bixby's son) 2 photos.
  33. Fee Interviews: Interviews with C. Allen Fee former Vice President and Secretary of ACF, employed 1915 - 1965. Transcripts rough and edited, questions used, etc.

 

Collection #31: News Clippings

2 Boxes 09 #All,12

The origin of this collection is not known, and the condition of both the bound and unbound news clippings is bad. They must be handled with extreme caution.

 

Collection #32: Oversize

Does not include OS lot books of collection #8. Collection principally includes renderings, photographs and advertising flysheets.

Located at:

  • D16 #A3, A5, A6, B5&6
  • D17 #A3,4,5,6, B3,4,5,6
  • D28 #A5&6, B5&6

Shelf No. D16 #A3

  • Renderings of Train Interiors (48)

Shelf No. D16 #A5&:6, B5&:6

  • Payroll ACF, St. Louis Branch Car Dept. for Second Half of May 1899
  • Work Record: Lot No. 8387, July 1917
  • Chicago &: North Western Railroad
  • ACF - St. Louis

Shelf No. D17 #A3&4, B3&4

  • Account Book - Brill Corporation
  • News Clipping Scrapbook - ACF

Shelf No. D17 #5&:6, B5&:6

  • Passenger Cars Built by Predecessors of ACF
  • Freight Cars Built by Predecessors of ACF

Shelf No. D28 #A5&6, B5&6

  • 73 Items:
    • Mounted Pictures - Freight & Box Cars
    • Loose Large Pictures - Freight & Box Cars
    • Pkgs. of Air Brushed Pictures - Freight & Box Cars
    • Spiral Bound Book - Piping & Equipment - Diagram for General Electric Equipment R16
    • Box - Loose Photographs
    • Rolling Stock - Bound Together - 1947-1949 (2 Copies)
    • Mich.-Penn. Car Co. - Official Payroll
    • Contact Print Book - PFI Series 648
    • 5 Binders of Adds & Brochure Pages

 

Collection #33: Passenger & Freight Car Plans and Drawings

1 Box S5 #10

An ad hoc collection, drawn from the scattered materials originally found in the Archive room. They are unindexed.

 

Collection #34: Passenger and Rapid Transit Car Proposals

1948-1960

3 Boxes S5 #7-9

An ad hoc collection, drawn from the scattered materials originally found in the Archive room. These post-war design proposals include many hand-colored renderings. They are unindexed.

Collection #34, Box #1

  1. Designs - Snack Bar
  2. Designs - Gulf, Mobile &: Ohio
  3. Designs - 100-199
  4. Designs - 200-299
  5. Designs - Lighting Unnumbered Loose Pictures
  6. Designs - Great Northern Sketches
  7. Designs - Southern Rail way
  8. Designs - Southern Pacific
  9. Rendering - Submarine
  10. Designs - Union Pacific Railroad
  11. Designs - Seaboard Air Lines - Kodachromes
  12. Designs - Seaboard Air Line
  13. Designs - St. Louis Transit Authority
  14. Designs - Proposed Railway System for Bay Area Council San Francisco
  15. Designs - Richmond Fredericksburg &: Potomac
  16. Proposed Railway System for Bay Area Council Kodachromes
  17. Designs - Railated
  18. Designs - Pennsylvania
  19. Designs - Nacionales De Mexico 6/24/56
  20. Designs - New Haven Railroad
  21. Designs - Norfolk & Western
  22. Designs - Identification List
    • 22a. Designs 400-499
  23. Designs - 523
  24. Designs - 300-399
  25. Designs - Trailer Mast
  26. Designs - Trailer Hitch
  27. Designs - Hi-Lead - Low Dome
  28. Designs - Hopper Car
  29. Designs - Inter-City
  30. Designs - Kansas City Southern
  31. Designs - Union Pacific

Collection #34, Box #2

  1. Designs Unnumbered
  2. Designs Louisville & Nashville
  3. Designs Massachusetts Transit
  4. Designs Missouri Pacific
  5. Designs Talgo (New Haven)
  6. Designs Union Pacific Kodachromes
  7. Pennsylvania Railroad (Stats & Negs) Construction Sequesnce - Proposal date 2/1/61
  8. Traveler Negatives

Collection #34, Box #3

Contents unindexed.

 

Collection #35: Passenger Cars

3 Boxes D4 #A4-6

An ad hoc collection, drawn from the scattered materials originally found in the Archive room. Most of the material relates to pre-war and immediate post-war streamline passenger cars, the self-propelled "Motorailers" of the immediate pre- war period, and post-war material on the future of the passenger train in the USA. A report on passenger car building activities at St. Charles is contained in Box 1.

Collection #35, Box #1

  1. Missouri Pacific "Eagle"
  2. Report on American Car and Foundry Company Passenger Car Plant - St. Charles
  3. ACF Industries, Inc. - Railroad Passenger Cars - Sales Conference
  4. Passenger Cars - Double Deck Commuter Cars
  5. Railroad Car Advertising - Passenger Cars - 1932
  6. Blueprints - Suburban Car Trains
  7. Story of "Duco" Finishes
  8. Paint Spray Booths
  9. Paint Catalogs
  10. 2 - DuPont Recommendations for Finishing
  11. American Car &: Foundry - Proposed Design for Standard Coach - 1923
  12. Model Analysis - Passenger Car Side Frame

Collection #35, Box #2

Motorailer (Streamlined, Self-propelled Passenger Cars) - 1930's - 1940's

  1. Diesel Motor Trains 2. Motorailers
  2. Bugatti Railcar- Railway Gazette Article
  3. American Car and Foundry – Streamlined Passenger Trains
  4. ACF Missouri Pacific Motorailer

 

Collection #36: Photographs, ACF Facilities by Plant

Photo Boxes #131-136, D26 #B3-#B8

6 Boxes (Provenance Maintained)

Primarily a photographic survey of ACF's manufacturing facilities, made in the early 1950's, these files also contain some correspondence. Why these files were compiled, and who compiled them, is not known.

  1. Facilities 1950's. General
  2. Facilities 1950's. General
  3. .Facilities 1950's. By plant A-B
  4. Facilities 1950's. By plant C-M
  5. Facilities 1950's. By plant M-Z
  6. Facilities 1950's. Box car testing photos, product development and manufacturing photos, maintenance of way products photos.

Box #3 – A-B

  1. Adapto &. Lodapto Materials Handling Show
  2. Adapto Materials Handling Show - Photographs
  3. Flat Cars Adapto Rock Island Convert - A - Frame 10/56
  4. Plants - Aerial Photographs - Berwick, Mil ton, St. Louis, Huntington, St. Charles
  5. Berwick Facilities Adapto 1/56
  6. Berwick Facilities Adapto Puerto Rico
  7. Berwick Facilities Bridge Girders &. Bearings C. D. Perry &. Son
  8. Berwick Facilities Bridge Girders
  9. Berwick Facilities Gondolas '51
  10. Berwick Facilities Defense Products (Thiokol Rocket Engine Case)
  11. Berwick Facilities Gantry Truck
  12. Berwick Facilities Bridge Bearings Franklin Contracting Co.
  13. Berwick Facilities Cargo Units (Swift)
  14. Berwick Facilities Hopper Cars Lot 3087
  15. Berwick Facilities Laboratory 1955
  16. Berwick Facilities Roadapto
  17. Berwick Facilities Roof Rotators
  18. Berwick Facilities Shell Plant
  19. ACF Shell Line (Visit) Student Group From Aberdeen Proving Grounds
  20. Berwick Facilities Machines
  21. Berwick Facilities Modernization Program
  22. Berwick Facilities Morris Photographs
  23. Berwick Facilities P.F.I. 5/56
  24. Berwick Facilities Presses (Hydraulic)
  25. Berwick Facilities Rail Anchors
  26. Rail Anchors
  27. Berwick Facilities Trailer Hitch 7/56
  28. Berwick Facilities Special Products
  29. Berwick Facilities Spot Welder
  30. Berwick Facilities Steel Yard
  31. Berwick Facilities Tool and Die Shop
  32. Berwick Facilities Bridge Trusses Lot 48-5218B
  33. Trailer Hitch (Model "2") (Test Car) Cushion Underframe
  34. Box Car Rotator
  35. Berwick Facilities Lodapto 7/20/ 56
  36. Buffers
  37. (On Top) Berwick Enterprise 175th Anniversary Edition June 1961

Box #4 – C-R

  1. Containers (Malt) (Schwill)
  2. Containers (Demountable) New York Central Flexi-Van Service
  3. Carter Carburetor Division Carburetors
  4. Fleex Crushing Unit Gondola - See Berwick Facilities
  5. Huntington - Electronic Core Ovens
  6. Huntington - Machines' 52
  7. Berwick - Rascal Trailer
  8. Huntington - Hopper Cars (C&O)
  9. Huntington Machines - Machinery, Operations Prior to 1952
  10. Huntington - Roller Bearings 12/53
  11. Huntington - Wheel & Axle Shop 12/53 See Also Roller Bearings
  12. Incinerator Facilities
  13. Milton - Nickel Clad Construction
  14. Milton - Giant Planer
  15. Milton - Machines 1952
  16. Milton - Special Products
  17. Milton - Construction (2) 1951 Tank Cars Bruce Nett
  18. Milton - P.F.I. 5/56
  19. Milton - X-Ray Testing
  20. Mil ton - Stress Relieving Ovens
  21. Mil ton - Jumbo Dry Ice Liquefiers
  22. Milton - Welded Seams
  23. Milton - X-Ray Testing 5/55
  24. Milton - Welding Tank Cars 1950 T .C. 3448
  25. Milton - Construction (1) 1946 - Tank Cars
  26. Milton - Drawings for Catalogs 1953
  27. Milton - Valves Tank Cars Anchor, Safety
  28. Mil ton - Underframes
  29. Milton - 4,000 Ton Hydraulic Press
  30. Milton - Dome Pressing Operations
  31. Milton - Special Products
  32. Milton - Construction Tank Cars
  33. Railway Express Refrigerator Cars Lot 3175 (Chicago)
  34. Rail Cleaning Process

Box #5 – S-Z

  1. St. Charles - Portable Paint Spray Booths CC
  2. St. Charles - Press 3/55
  3. St. Charles - Roof Gantries
  4. St. Charles - Facilities
  5. St. Charles - Sand Blast Building
  6. St. Charles - Passenger Car Construction (L&N) '46
  7. St. Louis Car Plant Machines
  8. St. Louis Foundry Machines
  9. St. Louis Car Plant Modernization of Plant
  10. St. Louis Car Plant Paint Shop
  11. Stenciling Facilities
  12. Trailer Hitch Construction Model 2
  13. Trailer Hitch (Chicago Pneumatic Wrench)
  14. Trailer Hitches (Competitive)
  15. Trailer Hitch (Pullman)
  16. Welding Shops
  17. Box - Trailer Hitch Presentation (Negatives)

 

Collection #37: Photographs, Aircraft Fuselage Construction

1 Box, S22 #11

An ad hoc collection, drawn from the scattered materials originally in the Archive room. Fuselage construction took place in the St. Charles plant during the 1950's under a sub-contract, but little is known of the activity. The folder of booklets to be found in this box is of little help in understanding the nature of this work.