Arthur Frahm discusses his career as a bookkeeper and purchasing agent at REO Motor Car Company and Diamond REO Trucks, Inc

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Description:

Arthur Frahm recalls his career as a bookkeeper and purchasing agent at REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc, in Lansing, Mi, between 1947 and 1972. Frahm describes his job buying almost everything used in the factory, the constant turmoil as REO changed hands over the years, the decline of the company, his own discharge, and his unsuccessful class action law suit filed against REO. Frahm also talks about his education, childhood in Lansing, the Lansing Labor Holiday and the 1937 strikes, REO’s involvement in the community, the destruction of the worker's pension fund, the start of Spartan Motors, and his career after REO. The interviewers are Shirley Bradley and Lisa Fine. Recorded as part of the REO Memories oral history project.

Date Issued:

1992-02-10T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Place:

Michigan, Lansing, Michigan, Lansing, Michigan, Lansing, Michigan, and Lansing

Subject Topic:

Career in automobile industry and trade, Childhood and youth, History, Automobile industry workers, Industrial procurement, General strikes, Automobile industry and trade, Social aspects, Pension trusts, Termination, Spartan Motors, Inc, and History

Subject Name:

Frahm, Arthur, Frahm, Arthur, Frahm, Arthur, Frahm, Arthur, Reo Motor Car Company, Diamond REO Trucks, Inc, Reo Motor Car Company, and Reo Motor Car Company

Subject Genre:

Interviews, Trials, litigation, etc., Interviews, Interviews, Trials, litigation, etc., and Interviews

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5nv99b40