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, 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.
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- In Collections
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Lansing Auto Town
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 1992-03-19
- Interviewees
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Fuller, Raymond
Fuller, Raymond, Mrs
- Interviewers
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Fine, Lisa M.
Bradley, Shirley J.
- Contributors
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REO Memories (Project)
- Subjects
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Fuller, Raymond
Fuller, Raymond, Mrs
Reo Motor Car Company
Diamond REO Trucks, Inc
Automobile industry workers
Executives
Families
Humor in the workplace
Industrial recreation
Motor vehicles, Amphibious--Testing
Plant shutdowns
Wage payment systems
Michigan--Houghton Lake
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 01:16:12
- Venue Note
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Interviewed and recorded in Mulliken, MI, by Shirley J. Bradley and Lisa M. Fine, Mar. 19, 1992.
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 16263
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b8663461