Edward Rankin discusses his career as an inventory clerk, manager, and sales representative at REO Motor Car Company and Diamond REO Trucks, Inc

Description:: Edward Rankin recalls his career as an inventory clerk, manager, and sales representative at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, MI, between 1947 and 1973. Rankin talks about his youth and being hired at REO, and speaks nostalgically about REO social life, worker sports teams and the beautiful Olds family pipe organ featured at the REO Clubhouse. He also describes sales trips to Iraq and Lebanon on behalf of REO, the intricacies of foreign markets and general market pressures in the truck business. Interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.
Date Issued:: 1992-01-28T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Place:: Michigan, Lansing, Michigan, Lansing, Iraq, and Lebanon
Subject Topic:: Career in automobile industry and trade, Childhood and youth, Buildings, Automobile industry workers, Industrial recreation, Business travel, Business travel, Trucks, and Marketing
Subject Name:: Rankin, Edward R., Rankin, Edward R., Rankin, Edward R., Reo Motor Car Company, Diamond REO Trucks, Inc, and Reo Motor Car Company
Subject Genre:: Interviews, Interviews, Interviews, and Interviews
Language:: English
Rights:: In Copyright
URL:: https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5xd0qz15