Vernon Cook discusses his career at REO Motor Car Company and Diamond REO Trucks, Inc
Vernon Cook recalls working at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, Mi, between 1944 and 1948. Cook says that much of his family worked at REO, including his future wife and that company culture dominated their lives. He describes factory working conditions, the REO Clubhouse, seeing the "Baby REO" car on display, the 1937 sit-down strike, and listening to WREO, the company radio station. He also talks at length about his job as a stock chaser in the plant and describes how trucks were built, tested and then dismantled for export. 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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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 1992-02-05
- Interviewees
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Cook, Vernon
- Interviewers
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Fine, Lisa M.
Bradley, Shirley J.
- Contributors
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REO Memories (Project)
- Subjects
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Cook, Vernon
Reo Motor Car Company
Diamond REO Trucks, Inc
WREO (Radio station : Lansing, Mich.)
Automobile industry workers
Buildings
Corporate culture
Families
Sit-down strikes
Trucks--Design and construction
Work environment
Michigan--Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 01:18:05
- Venue Note
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Interviewed and recorded in Lansing by Shirley J. Bradley and Lisa M. Fine, Feb. 5, 1992.
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 16256
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b8663237
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