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]> http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms004015 Frederick Cecil Horner A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress Prepared by Margaret H. McAleer with the assistance of John Monagle Revised by Margaret H. McAleer with the assistance of Michael W. Giese Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

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2003

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Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 2004 Finding aid written in English. Collection Summary Papers of Frederick Cecil Horner 1917-1960 (bulk 1922-1940) MSS62020 Horner, Frederick Cecil, 1887-1974 26,600 items 75 containers plus 5 oversize 30.4 linear feet Manuscript Division Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

Transportation engineer and executive with General Motors Corporation. Correspondence, diaries, memoir, memoranda, reports, speeches, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and photographs documenting Horner's career in transportation, chiefly as an executive with General Motors Corporation. Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.

Names: Horner, Frederick Cecil, 1887-1974 Atterbury, William Wallace, 1866-1935--Correspondence Barton, Bruce, 1886-1967--Correspondence Budd, Ralph, 1879- --Correspondence Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 Cunningham, William James, b. 1875--Correspondence Du Pont, Pierre S. (Pierre Samuel), 1870-1954--Correspondence. Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964--Correspondence Johnson, Pyke, b. 1888--Correspondence Kettering, Charles Franklin, 1876-1958--Correspondence MacDonald, Thomas H. (Thomas Harris), b. 1881--Correspondence Mooney, James David, 1884-1937--Correspondence Raskob, John J. (John Jakob), 1879-1950--Correspondence Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973--Correspondence Sloan, Alfred P. (Alfred Pritchard), 1875-1966--Correspondence Stettinius, Edward R. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949--Correspondence Swayne, Alfred H. (Alfred Harris), 1870-1957--Correspondence Charity Organization Society of the City of New York Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America General Managers' Association of New York General Motors Corporation Joint Committee of Railroads and Highway Users National Automobile Chamber of Commerce National Transportation Committee (U.S.) Regional Plan Association (New York, N.Y.) Society of Automotive Engineers (U.S.) National Transportation Conference (1923 : Washington, D.C.) World Engineering Congress (1st : 1929 : Tokyo, Japan) Subjects: Automobile engineers--Societies, etc. Automobiles--Societies, etc. Buses Engineering--Congresses Housing--New York (State)--New York Railroads Roads Traffic safety Transportation--Congresses Transportation--New York (State)--New York. Transportation--Taxation Transportation and state Transportation, Automotive--History Transportation, Automotive--Law and legislation Trucking Administrative Information Provenance:

The papers of Frederick Cecil Horner, transportation engineer, were given to the Library of Congress by his daughters, Elizabeth H. James and Lucy H. Reiche, in 1986.

Processing History:

The papers of Frederick Cecil Horner were arranged and described in 1992. The finding aid was revised in 2003.

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Some photographs have been transferred to the Library's Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as part of these papers.

Copyright in the unpublished writings of Frederick Cecil Horner in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.

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Biographical Note DateEvent 1887, May 6Born, Marshall, Va. 1901-1916Employed by various construction and transportation companies 1910Married Miriam Ranson, Baltimore, Md. 1916-1917President, Baltimore Motor Haulage Co., Md. 1917-1919Served as first lieutenant and then captain in the Motor Transportation Department, Aviation Section, United States Army Signal Corps 1919-1921Transportation engineer, Packard Motor Car Co., New York, N.Y. 1921-1922Conducted independent research on transportation conditions in England and continental Europe 1923Presented paper entitled “English Cartage Practice: A Standard for Our Railway Terminal Trucking” before Society of Automotive Engineers, Cleveland, Ohio 1923-1940Employed by General Motors Corp. as organizer and manager of Railroad Service Department 1929Delivered paper entitled “Application of Motor Transport to the Movement of Freight and Passengers” before the World Engineering Congress, Tokyo, Japan 1940Established Washington, D.C., office of General Motors Corp.Chief, Highway Division, United States Army Transportation Corps 1941Member of American team headed by Eugene Ridings to study effects of bombing on transportation and public utilities in England 1946Organized Highway Department of General Motors Corp. distribution branch, Detroit, Mich. 1948Retired from General Motors Corp. 1974, Sept. 29Died, Alexandria, Va. Scope and Content Note

The papers of Frederick Cecil Horner (1887-1974) span the years 1917-1960, with the bulk of the material dating from 1922 through 1940. The collection documents Horner's contributions to the development of motor truck and bus transportation, principally through his employment with the General Motors Corporation. The papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, diaries, a memoir, printed matter, speeches, photographs, and newspaper clippings. They are organized into three series: Personal Files, Business Files, and Oversize.

Horner was born in Marshall, Virginia, on 6 May 1887. Following his father's death in 1901, Horner left school and became a clerk at the Crocker-Wheeler Company in Ampere, New Jersey. Over the next fifteen years, Horner worked for various companies, largely in the field of construction and transportation. In 1916 he became president of the Baltimore Motor Haulage Company. After two years with the United States Army Signal Corps during World War I, Horner accepted a position as transportation engineer with Packard Motor Car Company. In 1921 he left Packard to conduct an independent study of English and European cartage practices and in 1923 presented his research in a speech before the Society of Automotive Engineers. As a result of this speech, Alfred P. Sloan, soon to be president of General Motors Corporation, offered Horner a position and the opportunity to develop a freight handling system based on English cartage practice.

Horner organized General Motors's Railroad Service Department, through which he marketed the concept of store door delivery. Emulating the English collection and delivery system, store door delivery consisted of the quick and efficient movement of freight from railroad terminals to their final destination through the use of railroad-owned trucks and equipment. Sloan publicly promoted the department as an “impartial” service to railroads which would greatly reduce the cost of freight transportation by alleviating congestion and delays at terminals. In order to obscure the ultimate goal of increasing truck and bus sales to railroads, Sloan argued, the Railroad Service Department should be kept independent of other General Motors divisions, including its truck company. Horner was officially listed as an assistant to Alfred H. Swayne, a vice-president of General Motors, until Swayne's death in 1937, when Horner became Sloan's assistant.

The Personal Files series consists largely of correspondence. Some of this correspondence pertains to family matters, financial investments, and property management. Much of it traces the personal and professional contacts developed and maintained by Horner with transportation executives and engineers.

The Business Files comprise Horner's working files and are divided into numerical and subject subseries. The numerical files reflect Horner's original arrangement and are ordered sequentially by numbers assigned by him to each folder. This material follows a loose chronological arrangement. The subject files consist of documents previously unorganized and existing outside Horner's numerical scheme. They are now organized alphabetically by topic or type of material.

The Business Files document the workings of the Railroad Service Department, which spent much its time gathering information about terminal facilities, operating practices, and local traffic rules through inspections and interviews. Horner's extensive research and interviews became the basis for written reports showing how motor transportation could be adapted to meet a company's particular needs. Horner was also active in promoting the use of bus transportation to and from railroad depots and air conditioning in railcars. Because of his close working relationship with Swayne and later Sloan, his files provide insight into the larger workings of General Motors during the 1920s and 1930s. Included are correspondence and memoranda, minutes from executive meetings at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, reports from other departments, and material concerning the company's exhibits at the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago in 1933 and the New York World's Fair in 1939.

The Business Files also document Horner's involvement with various transportation committees, organizations, and conferences, many dealing with the much-debated issues of regulation and taxation. Included are files from the National Transportation Conference organized by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. This material concerns Swayne's chairmanship of Committee IV which studied the relationship of highways and motor transportation to other transportation agencies. Horner also assisted Swayne in 1932 when the latter served as cochairman with William Wallace Atterbury of the Joint Committee of Railroads and Highway Users. The joint committee consisted of representatives from the Association of Railway Executives and the National Highway Users' Conference and submitted its recommendations on highway transportation regulation and taxation to the National Transportation Committee headed by Calvin Coolidge. Finally, the series documents Horner's membership on the Store Door Committee of the General Managers' Association of New York, his participation in National Automobile Chamber of Commerce meetings on interstate bus regulation, and his chairmanship of several committees of the Society of Automotive Engineers.

Throughout his years with General Motors, Horner continued his research on transportation in Europe and the United States and became an internationally recognized authority on the coordination of rail and road transportation. He was elected the first American member of the British Institute of Transport in London. Horner's paper on the “Application of Motor Transportation to the Movement of Freight and Passengers,” delivered before the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo, Japan, increased his international reputation.

Other material in the Business Files concerns Horner's membership in various New York civic associations. He served on the Charity Organization Society's Tenement House Committee and the Regional Plan Association's Transportation Committee, among others.

Prominent correspondents include William Wallace Atterbury (1866-1935), Bruce Barton (1886-1967), Ralph Budd (1879- ), William J. Cunningham (b. 1875), Pierre S. Du Pont (1870-1954), Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), Pyke Johnson (b. 1888), Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas H. MacDonald, James David Mooney, John J. Raskob, Eddie Rickenbacker, Alfred P. Sloan, Edward R. Stettinius, and Alfred H. Swayne.

Organization of the Papers

The collection is arranged in three series:

Personal Files, 1917-1941, n.d. Business Files, 1917-1960, n.d. Oversize, 1921-1960, n.d. Container List BoxContents 1-27Personal Files, 1917-1941, n.d.

Correspondence, military orders, property records, tax data, and printed matter pertaining to family matters, financial activities, property management, and personal and professional contacts with transportation executives and engineers.

Arranged chronologically by year and alphabetically therein by name of person, topic, or type of material.

11917-1919 Family correspondence General correspondence, memoranda, and military orders (3 folders) Printed and miscellaneous material 1924-1925 (2 folders) 1926 “A-O” miscellaneous (2 folders) Properties, Stonington, Conn. “P-Z” miscellaneous 1927 “A-F” miscellaneous (3 folders) 2“G-O” miscellaneous (2 folders) Properties, Stonington, Conn. “P-W” miscellaneous (2 folders) 1928 “A-C” miscellaneous (2 folders) Du Pont, Elizabeth Horner (Mrs. Philip F.) (sister) “D-G” miscellaneous (2 folders) Horner, Leonard S. (brother) “H” miscellaneous Income tax data “I” miscellaneous 3“J-O” miscellaneous Properties East 80th Street, New York, N.Y. Stonington, Conn. “P-T” miscellaneous (2 folders) 1929 “A-G” miscellaneous (2 folders) Horner, Leonard S. Horner, Miriam Ranson (wife) “H-O” miscellaneous Properties “Moorings,” Fauquier Co., Va. Stonington, Conn. “P-Z” miscellaneous (2 folders) 41930 “A-G” miscellaneous (5 folders) Horner, Leonard S. “H” miscellaneous Income tax data (5 folders) “I-O” miscellaneous (3 folders) Properties East 80th Street, New York, N.Y. “Moorings,” Fauquier Co., Va. (2 folders) 5Stonington, Conn. (4 folders) “R-Z” miscellaneous (2 folders) 1931 “A” miscellaneous Bunting, Frederick H. (nephew) Bunting, John B. (nephew) “B” miscellaneous Conn, George C. “C-G” miscellaneous (4 folders) 6Holmes, Bradford B. Hoover, Herbert Horner, Leonard S. Horner, Lucy Glenn (daughter) Horner, Miriam Ranson “H-O” miscellaneous (5 folders) Properties East 80th Street, New York, N.Y. “Moorings,” Fauquier Co., Va. Stonington, Conn. (2 folders) “P” miscellaneous Rickenbacker, Eddie “R-V” miscellaneous (3 folders) 7“W-Z” miscellaneous 1932 “A” miscellaneous Bunting family “B” miscellaneous Charitable contributions (2 folders) Conn, George C. “C” miscellaneous Davis, J. Lionberger “D-G” miscellaneous (2 folders) Horner, Leonard S. (2 folders) “H” miscellaneous 8“J-O” miscellaneous (2 folders) Properties “Moorings,” Fauquier Co., Va. Stonington, Conn. (6 folders) “P-Q” miscellaneous Rickenbacker, Eddie “R-Z” miscellaneous (3 folders) 1933 “A” miscellaneous Bunting family “B” miscellaneous 9Charitable contributions Conn, George C. Cunningham, William “C-G” miscellaneous (3 folders) Hankins, Frederick W. Horner, Leonard S. Horner, Lucy Glenn Horner, Mary Elizabeth (daughter) “H-N” miscellaneous (3 folders) 10“O” miscellaneous Properties East 80th Street, New York, N.Y. “Moorings,” Fauquier Co., Va. Stonington, Conn. (3 folders) “P” miscellaneous Roosevelt, Franklin D. “R” miscellaneous Stettinius, Edward R. “S-Y” miscellaneous (3 folders) 1934 “A” miscellaneous Bunting, Blair Horner (Mrs. John S.) (sister) Bunting, Frederick H. 11“B” miscellaneous Charitable contributions (2 folders) Conn, George C. “C-G” miscellaneous (4 folders) Horner, Leonard S. Horner, Lucy Glenn Horner, Mary Elizabeth Horner, Miriam Ranson “H” miscellaneous 12“I-O” miscellaneous (3 folders) Properties East 80th Street, New York, N.Y. “Moorings,” Fauquier Co., Va. Stonington, Conn. (3 folders) “P” miscellaneous Rickenbacker, Eddie “R-V” miscellaneous (3 folders) 13“W-Z” miscellaneous 1935 “A” miscellaneous Bunting family “B” miscellaneous Charitable contributions “C-G” miscellaneous (6 folders) Horner, Leonard S. 14Horner, Lucy Glenn Horner, Mary Elizabeth Horner, Miriam Ranson “H-J” miscellaneous (3 folders) Knipe, James L. (2 folders) “K-O” miscellaneous (5 folders) Properties East 49th Street, New York, N.Y. 15East 80th Street, New York, N.Y. “Moorings,” Fauquier Co., Va. Stonington, Conn. “P-Y” miscellaneous (6 folders) 1936 “A-B” miscellaneous (3 folders) Charitable contributions Conn, George C. 16“C-G” miscellaneous (7 folders) Horner, Leonard S. Horner, Lucy Glenn Horner, Mary Elizabeth Horner, Miriam Ranson “H-J” miscellaneous (3 folders) Knipe, James L.(2 folders)17(1 folder) “K-L” miscellaneous (2 folders) McArdle, Joseph P. (2 folders) Moncure, Dorothy “M-O” miscellaneous (4 folders) Properties East 80th Street, New York, N.Y. “Moorings,” Fauquier Co., Va. (2 folders) Stonington, Conn.(1 folder)18(1 folder) “P” miscellaneous Rickenbacker, Eddie, testimonial dinner, Society of Automotive Engineers (2 folders) “R-Y” miscellaneous (9 folders) 1937 “A-B” miscellaneous Charitable contributions “C-D” miscellaneous 19“F-J” miscellaneous (2 folders) Knipe, James L. (2 folders) “L” miscellaneous Martien, James Carey (2 folders) Moncure, Dorothy Mooney, James D. “M-N” miscellaneous Properties East 10th Street, New York, N.Y. East 80th Street, New York, N.Y. (2 folders) “Moorings,” Fauquier Co., Va. Stonington, Conn. 20“P-Y” miscellaneous (3 folders) 1938 Bunting, Blair Horner (Mrs. John S.) Charitable contributions (2 folders) “D-G” miscellaneous Horner, Leonard S. (2 folders) Horner, Miriam Ranson “H-J” miscellaneous (3 folders) Knipe, James L. (2 folders) “K-L” miscellaneous (2 folders) 21Martien, James Carey (3 folders) “M-O” miscellaneous (4 folders) Properties East 80th Street, New York, N.Y. (2 folders) “Moorings,” Fauquier Co., Va. Stonington, Conn. (3 folders) 22“P-Y” miscellaneous (6 folders) 1939 “A-E” miscellaneous (9 folders) 23“F-G” miscellaneous (3 folders) Horner, Leonard S. (3 folders) Horner, Lucy Glenn Horner, Mary Elizabeth Horner, Miriam Ranson “H-J” miscellaneous (3 folders) Knipe, James L. (2 folders) 24“K-M” miscellaneous (5 folders) Newcomen Society “N-S” miscellaneous 1940 “Ab-Br” miscellaneous (3 folders) 25“Bu” miscellaneous Charitable contributions “C-G” miscellaneous (6 folders) Hankins, Frederick W. (2 folders) Horner, Leonard S. (3 folders) Horner, Lucy Glenn 26Horner, Mary Elizabeth Horner, Miriam Ranson “H” miscellaneous (2 folders) Income tax data “J” miscellaneous Knipe, James L. (2 folders) “K-L” miscellaneous (2 folders) MacDonald, Thomas H. McArdle, Joseph P. Martien, James Carey “M-O” miscellaneous (3 folders) 27Properties East 80th Street, New York, N.Y. “Moorings,” Fauquier Co., Va. Stonington, Conn. “P” miscellaneous Rickenbacker, Eddie “R” miscellaneous Szymoniak, Edna “S-Z” miscellaneous (5 folders) 1941 Undated and unidentified correspondence 28-75Business Files, 1917-1960, n.d. 28-49Numerical Files, 1917-1941, n.d.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, printed matter, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

Numerical files reflect the original arrangement of Horner's working files and are organized sequentially by folder number, which corresponds to a loose chronological arrangement.

28Folder 1 Packard Motor Co., 1920-1921, n.d. Folder 2 Fenn, F. W., increasing highway and railway efficiency, reports, n.d. Horner, speech on English cartage methods, Society of Terminal Engineers, New York, N.Y., 1922 Public motor carriage regulation plan, New York, N.Y., n.d. Traffic regulation, Community Forum meeting, New York, N.Y., 1923 Folder 3 Horner, reports on railway cartage, unit containers, and buses, 1923 Folder 4 European trip (1922), notes, 1922 Folder 5 Horner, speech, New Haven, Conn., Chamber of Commerce, 1923 Folder 6 Papers on motor vehicle legislation and New York, N.Y., transit matters, 1922-1923, n.d. Folder 7 London General Omnibus and Associated Equipment Co., memoranda and reports re equipment, 1923 Folder 8 Store door delivery, correspondence and reports, 1923-1924 South Eastern and Chatham Railway Co., England, report re collection and delivery rates, n.d. Folder 9 General Motors Corp., Railroad Service Department, notes re case assignments, 1927-1929, n.d. Scottish railway guide, n.d. Folders 10-11 Horner, speeches, 1923-1930, n.d. Folders 12-13 Horner, reports on buses, trucks, and gasoline railcars, 1923 29Folder 14 Horner, reports on buses, trucks, and gasoline railcars, 1923 Folder 15 German bus operations, 1921-1922 Folder 16 Miscellaneous statistics and notes re self-propelled railcars, buses, and freight delivery, 1917-1924, n.d. Folder 17 Price, B. M., Garford Motor Truck Co., proposed study re handling of less-than-carload freight, 1920-1921 Folder 18 Store door delivery, report and speech by James S. Harlan and A. E. Beck, 1918-1920 Folder 19 New York Central Railroad Co., case 21-A, statistics and notes, 1925, n.d. Folder 20 General Motors Corp. buses, promotional literature, report, and photographs, 1924, n.d. New York Transportation Co. and Fifth Avenue Coach Co., bus price lists, 1921-1922 Folder 21 Standard Oil Co., reports re motor vehicle operations, 1918-1925, n.d. See also Oversize Folder 22 Association of Railway Executives, “Report of Express Operations at Philadelphia, Pa.,” 1924 Goodrich, Ernest P., and Harold M. Lewis, “The Highway Traffic Problem in New York and Its Environs,” 1924 Nutt, J. R., “The Railroad Situation,” 1923 Folder 23 Turner, Daniel L., “Transit Conditions in Liverpool, Glasgow, and Edinburgh,” 1923 Miscellaneous reports and memoranda on federal transportation legislation, economic impact of the automobile industry, development of self-propelled cars, trap car service, and collection and delivery practices, 1923-1924, n.d. Folder 24 General Motors Corp., Railroad Service Department, memoranda and notes, 1923-1925, n.d. Folder 25 General Motors Corp., memoranda to and from Alfred P. Sloan and Alfred H. Swayne re Railroad Service Department, 1924-1926 Folder 26 American Railway Express Co., report on less-than-carload store door delivery, 1924 Folder 27 Memoranda re proposal for trucking company, submitted by Horner and L. W. Childress, Columbia Terminals Co., 1925 30Folder 28 Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., installation of motor vehicle transportation between Geneva and Ithaca, N.Y., 1924 Folder 29 Horner, memorandum on bus development, 1924 London General Omnibus Co. and Associated Equipment Co., agreement with General Motors Corp., 1922 Folder 30 New York Central Railroad Co., case 21-A, 1920-1924 Folder 31 New York Transportation Co., investigation into bus manufacturing, 1923 Folders 32-33 British transportation executives, correspondence, 1921-1924, n.d. American Chamber of Commerce in Germany, 1922 Folder 34 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), National Transportation Conference, Committee IV, report on status of work, 1923 Capitol Traction Co., meeting, Washington, D.C., 1923 Horner critique of Society of Automotive Engineers paper on flexible vehicular transportation, 1923 Illinois bus survey report, n.d. Folder 35 General Motors Corp., Railroad Service Department, correspondence re Pennsylvania Railroad, 1925-1926 Folders 36-38 Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Co., plans for cooperation with railroads, 1925, n.d. Folder 39 Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Co., negotiations with Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. and General Electric Co., 1925-1926, n.d. Folder 40 Sloan, Alfred P., announcement of Horner's appointment as assistant to Alfred H. Swayne, 1925 Report on less-than-carload freight and store door delivery, n.d. Analysis of store door delivery and electric carriers' less-than-carload traffic, Michigan, n.d. Folder 41 Field notes, terminal facilities, reports, New York, N.Y., 1925 Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., agreement with City Truck Line, 1925 Washington Rapid Transit Co., income report, 1922 Chicago and North Western Railway Co., traffic department report, 1925 Folder 42 General Motors Corp., Railroad Service Department, list of cases, Sept.-Dec., 1924 Reports on freight handling, St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis, Ill., 1923-1926 Folder 43 Kettering, Charles Franklin, correspondence re bus and truck surveys, 1923 Old Colony Club, London, England, 1924 31Folder 44 Wright, Robert C., Pennsylvania Railroad, “Railroad Situation - 1923,” 1923 Kruttschnitt, Julius, Southern Pacific Co., response to Senator James Couzens, 1923 MacDonald, Thomas H., Bureau of Public Roads, “Motor Truck Utilization by the Railroads,” 1923 Folder 45 New York Railroad Club, 1923-1927 Hatt, W. K., “Moot Questions in Highway Transportation,” 1922 Maybury, Sir Henry, interview, Ministry of Transport, London, England, 1923 Report on truck transportation in New England, n.d. Folders 46-52 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), National Transportation Conference, Committee IV, correspondence, memoranda, and minutes, Jan. 1923-Jan. 1924 32Folder 53 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), National Transportation Conference, Committee IV, correspondence, memoranda, and minutes, Feb.-Apr. 1924, n.d. Folder 54 American Railway Association, annual bulletin for 1922, 1923 See Oversize American Engineering Standards Committee, yearbook, 1923 Folders 55-56 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), National Transportation Conference, Committee IV, gasoline railcar data, 1923, n.d. Folder 57 Field notes, interviews re store door delivery, gasoline railcars, and buses, 1923 Folders 58-59 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), National Transportation Conference, Committee IV, drafts and galley proofs of report, 1923 Folder 60 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), National Transportation Conference, Committees I, II, III, and V, galley proofs of reports, 1923 Folder 61 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), National Transportation Conference, Committees I-V and Joint Subcommittee on Taxation, printed reports, 1923 Folder 62 Horner, correspondence re “English Cartage Practice” speech, Society of Automotive Engineers, Cleveland, Ohio, 1924 Childress, L. W., plan re optional store door service and discontinued use of trap cars, 1924 Folder 63 General Motors Corp., Traffic Association, opinions on trap car service, 1924 Folder 64 Horner, memorandum re General Motors Corp.'s role in commercial vehicle field, 1924 See also Oversize Folder 65 Interstate Commerce Commission, report on gasoline railcars, 1923 Folder 66 Bureau of Railway Economics, report on gasoline railcars, 1922 33Folder 67 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), National Transportation Conference, Committees I, II, III, and V, minutes, 1923 Folder 68 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), National Transportation Conference, Committee IV, correspondence re distribution of report, 1923 Folder 69 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), National Transportation Conference, Committee IV, Subcommittee C, transportation regulation, 1923 Folder 70 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), National Transportation Conference, Committee IV, Subcommittee B, use of motor trucks within terminal area, 1923 Folder 71 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), National Transportation Conference, Committee IV, Subcommittee A, motor use outside terminal area, 1923 Folder 72 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), National Transportation Conference, general meetings, Washington, D.C., 1924 Folder 73 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), North Central Division meeting, Chicago, Ill., 1924 Folder 74 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., reports, 1924, n.d. Folder 75 Reading Co., miscellaneous notes and map, 1924, n.d. Folder 76 New England region, memoranda and notes, 1924, n.d. Folder 77 Great Northern Railway (British), bus line, 1924 Folder 78 Long Island Railroad, notes, n.d. Folder 79 Pennsylvania Railroad, interviews, reports, and notes, 1924 Folder 80 Vail, J. J., report on Sibley system of freight delivery, 1924 Folder 81 General Motors Corp., receipts and vouchers, 1924-1925 Folder 82 Lehigh Valley Railroad, memoranda and notes, 1924, n.d. Folder 83 Boston and Maine Railroad, negotiations with Stone's Express Co., 1925 Folder 84 General Motors Corp., Railroad Service Department, case book, 1924 Folder 85 Horner, “English Cartage Practice,” abstract of paper, Society of Automotive Engineers, Cleveland, Ohio, 1923 Institution of Automobile Engineers, pamphlets, London, England, 1923 34Folder 86 Miscellaneous material re buses, 1923-1924 Turner, Daniel L., report on New York rapid transit traffic, 1925 Folder 87 Huntington, W. C., “Analysis of French Railroad Situation,” 1922 Ritchie, John A., biographical information, n.d. Speech on relationship between railroads and motor transportation, n.d. Swayne, Alfred H., obituary, 1937 Folder 88 Modern Transport, correspondence and incomplete draft of Horner article, 1925 Miscellaneous articles on freight delivery, 1923-1925 Folder 89 Reports re British and French gasoline railcars, n.d. Folder 90 Lyford, Will H., Chicago and Eastern Railroad Co., interview and article, 1923-1925 Memorandum re taxicab concessions, New York, N.Y., 1930 Folder 91 Gasoline railcars, France, 1922, n.d. Folders 92-96 Cincinnati, Ohio, case (#157), contract bidding for hauling less-than-carload freight, 1926-1927, n.d. Folder 97 General Managers' Association of New York, Store Door Delivery Committee, 1925 Folder 98 Correspondence re trap cars and British collection and delivery practices, 1925-1926 Folder 99 Miscellaneous reports on store door delivery and less-than-carload freight handling, 1923-1925 Folder 100 Pennsylvania Railroad, report on store door and less-than-carload delivery, 1933 Folder 101 Horner, critique of paper on motor truck operation, n.d. Folders 102-103 General Motors Corp., Railroad Service Department, personnel records, 1924-1931 35Folder 104 General Motors Corp., Railroad Service Department, case reports, 1924-1925 Folder 105 Yellow Coach Manufacturing Co., motor coach proposal, Illinois Motor Transport Co., 1925 Maryland, report on passenger vehicles, 1923, n.d. National Conference on City Planning, Baltimore, Md., 1923 Folder 106 New England bus operations, background material for discussion with electric railway officials, 1923 Folder 107 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), National Transportation Conference, Committee IV, Herbert Hoover, 1923 Folder 108 Rozier, Capt. A., London General Omnibus Co., interview, 1923 Folder 109 Wright, Robert C., general traffic manager, Pennsylvania Railroad, interview, 1924 Chicago and North Western Railroad Co., report on motor delivery and transfer of freight, 1921 Folder 110 Swayne, Alfred H., “Traffic Problems,” 1925 Folders 111-112 General Managers' Association of New York, Special Door Store Delivery Committee, 1924-1925 Folder 113 Cabot, Philip, article on New England railroads, n.d. American Electric Railway Association, reports on buses, 1923 General Motors Truck Co., memorandum re electric railway service abandonment, 1934 Folder 114 Mead, [?], interview on future of buses, n.d. Fiechter, F. C., John Wanamaker (firm), interview, n.d. Field notes from trips to Toronto, Canada; Pennyan, N.Y.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Waterbury, Conn.; and New York, N.Y., 1923 Folder 115 Swayne, Alfred H., correspondence re “Co-ordinating Highway and Railroad Transportation,” Commerce and Finance, 1925 Folder 116 Sloan, Alfred P., correspondence re articles in Spur and Modern Transport, 1925 Folder 117 Field notes, trips to Chicago, Ill., and Detroit, Mich., 1926 Folder 118 Miscellaneous notes from meetings, 1923, n.d. Folders 119-120 Field notes re terminal facilities, 1925-1926 Folder 121 Railroad cartage practices, memoranda and notes re New York, N.Y., 1925 St. Louis, Mo., trip, correspondence and notes, 1924-1925 Folders 122-123 Field notes re terminal facilities, 1925-1926 36Folders 124-125 Field notes re terminal facilities, 1925-1926 Folders 126-127 Brackett, F. J., correspondence re field work, 1926 Folder 128 Canadian railway cartage service, 1921 Folders 129-130 Cincinnati, Ohio, case (#157), contract bidding for hauling less-than-carload freight, 1926, n.d. Folder 131 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co., motor vehicle study, 1926 Folder 132 Columbia Terminals Co., St. Louis, Mo., 1925 Folder 133 New England bus operations, report, 1926 Folder 134 Manhattan, N.Y., bus operations, report, 1925 Field notes from trips to Detroit, Mich.; Boston, Mass.; and Buffalo, N.Y., 1924-1925 Pennsylvania Railroad, motor truck operations, 1925 Folders 135-136 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., survey of truck and bus use and Illinois Motor Transport Co. contract, 1925-1926 37Folders 137-138 Cincinnati, Ohio, case (#157), contract bidding for hauling less-than-carload freight, 1926, n.d. Folder 139 Field notes, railroad operations, 1926 Folder 140 Field notes, railroad operations, 1925-1926 Folder 141 Trueblood, Jesse D., daily reports, Jan.-Aug. 1926 Folder 142 Finch, Nathaniel A., daily reports, Jan.-Sept. 1926 Folder 143 Coleman, Charles T., daily reports, Oct. 1925-Aug. 1926 Folder 144 Horner, memorandum re taxicab market, 1929 Commercial car shows, 1927 McChord, C. C., National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, speech on regulation, 1928 Motor vehicle regulation and public welfare, n.d. Pistol license application, n.d. Folders 145-146 Correspondence with British transportation executives, 1922-1928 Folder 147 General Motors Corp., Railroad Service Department, budget statements, 1925-1931 Folder 148 American Electric Railway Association, report by Motor Vehicle Committee and notes from Nov. 30 meeting, 1927 Bus survey report on service between Philadelphia, Pa., and Atlantic City, N.J., 1927 Commercial car registration, report, 1927 Gondola car blueprints, 1928 Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., notes on container service, 1928 Miscellaneous notes, 1927-1928, n.d. Pennsylvania Railroad, notes from meetings re truck and bus transportation, 1928 Survey guidelines for double body service and bus operations, n.d. Folder 149 Sloan, Alfred P., “The Principles and Policies Behind General Motors,” speech, Automobile Editors of American Newspapers meeting, Milford, Mich., 1927 Detroit, Mich., Police Department, report re parking problems, 1928 38Folder 150 Interstate bus regulation, minutes from joint meetings of Bus Board, American Automotive Association, and National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, 1927-1928 Folder 151 Interstate bus regulation, memoranda, 1929 Folder 152 Bus operations, memoranda and reports, 1928-1929, n.d. Folder 153 Mid-York Club, New York, N.Y., 1928 Folder 154 Bus operations and sales, memoranda and reports, 1924-1928 Folder 155 Canadian bus transportation, report on Ontario and Quebec provinces, 1929 Folder 156 Motor Transit Corp., report on bus operations, n.d. Long distance bus transportation report, Sept. 1928 Folder 157 Long distance bus transportation report, Nov. 1928 Folder 158 Horner, lecture on transportation, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., 1928 Report on British collection and delivery service, 1929 Swayne, Alfred H., “Problems of Highway Transport Regulation,” 1929 Folder 159 Pennsylvania Railroad, container car service and General Motors Corp. truck demonstration, 1929 Hyatt Bearings Division, railroad activities, 1929 Folder 160 General Motors Corp., Export Division, plant rating formula report, 1929 World Engineering Congress, proceedings, Tokyo, Japan, 1929 Folder 161 World Engineering Congress, general correspondence, Tokyo, Japan, 1928-1929 Folders 162-163 World Engineering Congress, Tokyo, Japan, distribution of Horner paper, 1930 39Folders 164-165 World Engineering Congress, Tokyo, Japan, distribution of Horner paper, 1930 Folders 166-168 World Engineering Congress, Tokyo, Japan, Horner paper, “Application of Motor Transport to the Movement of Freight and Passengers,” 1929 Folders 169-170 World Engineering Congress, Tokyo, Japan, Horner paper, research material, 1928-1929, n.d. Folder 171 Memorandum on truck market, 1927 Folder 172 National parks trip, notes, 1928 Folder 173 Century of Progress International Exposition, Advisory Committee on Automobile Industry Exhibit, Chicago, Ill., 1929-1930, n.d. Folder 174 Church, Elihu, container service and refrigeration proposals, 1927-1933, n.d. Folders 175-176 Society of Automotive Engineers, Transportation Committee, 1929 Folder 177 Horner, speech on freight and passenger motor transportation, American Hardware Manufacturers Association convention, Atlantic City, N.J., 1929 40Folder 178 Long distance bus lines, report re New York, N.Y., 1928, n.d. Folder 179 Christmas card lists, 1929-1932 Folder 180 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., bus service between Jersey City, N.J., and New York, N.Y., 1926 Folder 181 Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, summer session for business executives, Cambridge, Mass., 1928 Folders 182-185 Society of Automotive Engineers, Operation and Maintenance Subcommittee, 1928-1929, n.d. Folder 186 Gray Coach Lines, Toronto, Canada, 1929 Folder 187 National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, memoranda re interstate bus regulation and the Parker bill, 1928-1930, n.d. Folder 188 Interstate Commerce Commission, hearings re railroad freight stations on Manhattan Island, N.Y., n.d. New York Railroad Club, meeting, New York, N.Y., 1932 41Folders 189-194 Joint Committee of Railroads and Highway Users, correspondence, 1932-1933 See also Oversize Folder 195 Joint Committee of Railroads and Highway Users, recommendations, 1933 42Folder 196 Joint Committee of Railroads and Highway Users, undated material and printed matter, 1932, n.d. Folder 197 Canadian bus operations, reports, 1928-1929 Report on proposed financing of equipment purchases, prepared for Big Three, Inc., Boston, Mass., 1928 Folders 198-200 Truck operations, correspondence and reports, 1931-1933, n.d. Folder 201 General Motors Corp., “Cutting Distribution Costs with Motor Trucks,” 1931 Truck operations and regulation, printed matter, 1923-1932 See also Oversize Folder 202 Great Northern Railway Co., reaction to Alfred H. Swayne's speech, New York Traffic Club, 1931 Schon, Pierre, papers on regulation of motor vehicle transportation, 1932-1933 Transportation survey for R. P. Hazard Co., Boston, Mass., 1931 Folders 203-204 Mooney, James D., “An Outlook on Russia,” speech, American Automotive Club, Paris, France, 1930 Transportation studies and magazine abstracts sent to Soviet Union by James D. Mooney, n.d. Folder 205 Jordan Marsh Co., Boston, Mass., transportation survey, 1935 Sears, Roebuck and Co., Chicago, Ill., transportation survey, 1936 43Folder 206 Keeshin Transcontinental Freight Lines, Chicago, Ill., 1935 Folder 207 Reading Co., transportation survey, 1929 Folder 208 New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad, transportation survey, Chicago, Ill., 1928 Penn Public Coach Line, proposal, 1928 Folder 209 Interstate Commerce Commission, statistics re coordination of motor transportation, reported by railways, 1930 Folder 210 Chevrolet Motor Co., transportation survey, 1932 Johnson Laundry, transportation survey, East Boston, Mass., 1931 Saginaw, Mich., local bus service proposal, 1931 Stone's Express, proposed retail store delivery manual, Boston, Mass., 1931 Folder 211 Frigidaire Corp., proposals re air conditioning for coaches and diners, 1931-1932 Folder 212 Seaboard Air Line Railway, proposal re highway motor vehicle operations, 1931 Folder 213 Castanea Paper Co., Pa., transportation survey, 1932 Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Division, trucking proposal, 1933 Folder 214 Bus regulation, 1931-1932, n.d. Folder 215 General Motors Truck Co., memoranda re buses, 1930-1932 “Motor Bus as a Transit Vehicle,” n.d. Folder 216 Broadway Association, proposal for motorizing New York streetcars, 1932 Motor Vehicle Conference Committee, digest of legislative bills, 1931 St. Louis Southwestern Railway lines, bus operation costs, 1932 Society of Automotive Engineers, paper on problems faced by the motor transport executive, 1931 Terminal Associates, memorandum re bus terminal construction, n.d. Folder 217 Bus transportation, printed matter, 1931-1932 Folder 218 Foreign transportation systems, miscellaneous, 1931-1932, n.d. Folder 219 Regional and municipal planning, 1931-1932, n.d. Folder 220 Frigidaire Corp., “New Deal for 1932" and material re railroad car air conditioning installations, 1932-1936, n.d. 44Folders 221-222 National Recovery Administration, material re bus and truck regulation, 1933-1934, n.d. Folder 223 Broadsides re National Recovery Administration and American Federation of Labor, 1933-1934 Folder 224 Interstate Commerce Commission, docket #18,300, re motor buses and trucks, 1926 Folder 225 Joint Committee of Railroads and Highway Users, memorandum by William J. Cunningham on motor vehicle regulation and taxation, 1933 Folder 226 Railway Business Association, 1932-1933, n.d. Folder 227 Joint Committee of Railroads and Highway Users, newspaper clippings, 1932-1933, n.d. Folder 228 National Highway Users Conference, minutes to special meeting and letter to John J. Pelley, 1933 Folder 229 Terminal Cab Corp., New York, N.Y., 1930-1931 Folder 230 Joint Committee of Railroads and Highway Users, replies to questionnaire re truck length regulation, 1933 Folder 231 General Motors Corp., truck pamphlet, n.d. Folder 232 Field notes, trips to Florida and St. Louis, Mo., 1933, n.d. Folders 233-234 Society of Automotive Engineers, general correspondence, 1928-1936, n.d. 45Folder 235 Survey of railroad executives re equipment modernization and national economic recovery, 1932 Folder 236 Horner, “Modern Bus as a Transit Vehicle,” speech, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, N.Y., 1932 Folder 237 Society of Automotive Engineers, Military Transport Advisory Committee proceedings, 1931 Folder 238 European trip (1936), correspondence and notes, 1936 Permanent International Association of Road Congresses, Paris, France, 1937 Reports and papers, 1936-1937, n.d. Folder 239 Truck and rail freight rate charts, n.d. Trucking proposal and statistics, New York, N.Y., 1921-1926, n.d. Passenger statistics, n.d. See Oversize Passenger motor car statistics, Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Co., 1930 See Oversize Folder 240 Freight handling, dairy products, 1929 Folder 241 Deasy, John F., Pennsylvania Railroad, Interstate Commerce Commission testimony, 1931, n.d. Horner, memorandum to Alfred P. Sloan re centralized railroad system, 1938 Folder 242 Motor truck business combination, proposal, 1930 Folder 243 Committee on Housing, “Lower Cost Housing Can Be Provided,” New York, N.Y., 1939 Folder 244 European trip (1936), International Chamber of Commerce, Highway Transportation Committee meetings, Paris, France, 1936 Folders 245-246 European trip (1936), general correspondence and notes, 1936 “National Planning in Great Britain,” n.d. Folder 247 European trip (1936), printed matter, 1936 Folder 248 Committee of One, Franklin D. Roosevelt campaign kit, 1936 46Folder 249 British transportation, miscellaneous material, 1933-1936 Folders 250-251 European trip (1938), International Road Congress, Netherlands, 1938 Folder 252 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Co., income report, 1932 Institute of Transport, London, England, The Journal, Nov. 1932 Folder 253 Field notes, Chicago, Ill., and Detroit, Mich., trips (1938), 1934-1938 Folder 254 Horner, “Utilization of Highway Transport in Europe,” 1938 Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, conference on rail and road transport, London, England, 1932 Transportation Association of America, 1936-1937 Folder 255 General Motors Corp., Railroad Service Department, memoranda re railroads, 1935-1938 Folder 256 Highway transportation, miscellaneous material re regulation, taxation, and funding, 1932-36, n.d. See also Oversize Folder 257 Highway transportation, miscellaneous material re competition with railroads, 1933-1934 Folder 258 Transportation Conference, proceedings, New York, N.Y., 1933 National Association of Motor Bus Operators, 1932 Folder 259 Mooney, James D., letter re Soviet Union trip (1930) and recommendations submitted to Commerce Department, Business Advisory and Planning Council, Committee on Transportation, 1935 47Folder 260 British transportation, miscellaneous reports, 1932-1936, n.d. Folders 261-263 United States Army, Transportation Corps, Highway Division, 1940, n.d. See also Oversize Folder 264 Deuel, J. J., speech, “Improving Transportation Methods to Reduce Rates,” California Farm Bureau Federation, San Diego, Calif., 1939 California, addresses and business cards, n.d. New York Housing Authority, annual report, 1940 Folder 265 Field notes from trips to Chicago, Ill.; Boston, Mass.; and New Haven, Conn.; Philadelphia, Pa., 1939-1941, n.d. Folder 266 Field notes, trip to Pittsburgh, Pa., 1940 General Motors Corp., list of suppliers and shipment destinations, 1940 Folder 267 Regional Plan Association, New York, N.Y., 1940 Folder 268 Budd, Ralph, National Defense Commission, 1940-1941, n.d. Folders 269-270 Railroad and motor transportation, competition and regulation, 1931-1936, n.d. 48Folder 271 Railroads, general, 1932-1933, n.d. New York Railroad Club, proceedings, 1933 Folder 272 Store door delivery, 1933-1940 Folder 273 General Motors Corp., labor issues and plant closings, 1937 Folder 274 Gasoline tax, 1931-1936 National Highway Users Conference, memoranda to Alfred P. Sloan re motor vehicle taxation and regulation, 1936 Folder 275 National Conference on Street and Highway Safety, Washington, D.C., 1933 Folder 276 Motor truck transportation, 1931-1935 Folders 277-278 Speech by other transportation engineers and executives, 1931-1937, n.d. Folder 279 Horner, remarks, Wharton Alumni Institute of Business, roundtable, 1932 Horner, “Looking Forward in the Field of Transportation,” Society of Automotive Engineers, International Congress, Chicago, Ill., 1933 Folder 280 “Coordination of Rail and Highway Freight Transport,” n.d. Folder 281 National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, Special Interstate Commerce Commission Committee, June 1931-Mar. 1932 49Folders 282-283 National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, Special Interstate Commerce Commission Committee, Mar.-May 1932, n.d. Folder 284 Highways, general, 1931-1932, n.d. Folders 285-287 Motor transportation, regulation and taxation, 1930-1933, n.d. Folder 288 General Motors Corp., Junior Auto Club proposal, 1935-1936 Folder 289 Political literature opposing New Deal and Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936-1938 Sloan, Alfred P., position on New Deal, 1936 Folder 290 General Motors Corp., Atlantic City, N.J., exhibition, report, 1927 Folder 291 General Motors Corp., advertisements, 1933, n.d. Madison Avenue Coach Co., “Passing of New York's Pioneer Street Railway,” 1935 50-75Subject Files, 1917-1960, n.d.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, diaries, a memoir, speeches, printed matter, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

Subject files are arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material and represent previously unorganized files which were not included in Horner's numerical system.

50Air conditioning, railroad cars, 1931-1933, n.d. Air transportation Newspaper clippings, 1924-1933 (7 folders) Printed ephemera, 1940, n.d. See also Oversize American Country Life Association, conference, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., 1928 American Trucking Association Annual convention, Detroit, Mich., 1938 Bulletin advisory service, 1935-1938 (4 folders) 51Automobile industry General, 1924-1935 See also Oversize Newspaper clippings, 1924-1932 (2 folders) Biographical information, 1939-1940, n.d. Book inventory, 1938-1940, n.d. Budd, Edward G., transportation analyses, 1940 (2 folders) Bureau of Public Roads, list of published reports, 1919-1932 Buses General, 1923-1933, n.d. Newspaper clippings 1925-1928 (4 folders) 521929-1933 (5 folders) Printed ephemera, 1925-1933, n.d. (2 folders) California Railroad Commission, investigation of freight transportation conditions, 1932 Canada, 1923-1932 Chamber of Commerce (U.S.), transportation group meeting, 1923 Charity Organization Society of the City of New York (Community Service Society after 1938)Background informationFederal legislation, 1936-1937Miscellaneous, 1937-1940New York City Housing Authority, 1936-194053New York state, 1936-1940, n.d.CorrespondenceDavies, Stanley P., 1936-1938General, 1936-1940 (5 folders)Maslen, Sydney, 1936-1940 (7 folders) 54Minutes, 1936-1940 (4 folders) Printed matter, 1932-1940, n.d. (2 folders)Reports, 1935-1940, n.d. (4 folders) Cincinnati, Ohio, 1922, n.d. Columbia University, New York, N.Y., business administration syllabus, 1928-1929 55Conference on Highway Transport, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1928 Consumer income studies, 1936-1939 Data notebooks Buses, 1925-1927 (2 folders) General Motors Truck and Yellow Coach Co., 1925-1927 (3 folders) Miscellaneous (legislation, highways, tariffs, and traffic), 1925-1926 (2 folders) Trucks, 1923-1927 Diaries, calendars, and notebooks 1919-1921 561922 (2 folders) Diesel engines, 1940 Electric railways, 1921-1930 European trips 1922 1936 Germany, meeting with Reichsverband der Automobilindustrie International Chamber of Commerce meetings, Paris, France Miscellaneous 1938 International Chamber of Commerce meetings, Paris, FranceGeneralMiscellaneous notes International Road Congress, The Hague, Netherlands Correspondence Notes and general information, 1937-1938 Photographs Printed matter, 1937-1938 Programs 57Reports and bulletins Travel and accommodations (2 folders) Executives, 1932-1933 Fleet owner business, report, 1928, n.d. Foreign transportation, 1924-1938, n.d. (6 folders) France, 1932 Freight handling Dairy products and agricultural produce 1922-1934 581934-1937, n.d. (2 folders) General, including store door and less-than-carload delivery, 1919-1933, n.d. (2 folders) Printed ephemera, 1922-1934, n.d. Rates, 1917-1936, n.d. Fuel, 1933-1935 Gasoline railcars, 1923, n.d. General correspondence 1921-1924 (4 folders) 591925-1937 (13 folders) 601938-1941, n.d. (2 folders) General Motors Corp. Buick Motor Co., traffic statistics, 1929 Bus reports, 1922-1936 (5 folders) 61Commemorative books by Paul W. Garrett, 1936-1960 See Oversize Executives' conferences, White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., 1934-1936 (3 folders) Export Division Operations report, 1929 Pacific Coast shipments, 1928, n.d. Statistics, 1927-1930, n.d. Fleet users' guidelines for uniform operating cost system, 1931 Printed ephemera, 1927-1941, n.d. See also Oversize Railroad Service Department Budget statements, 1934-1940 Case files Numbers 21-67, 1924-1925 (3 folders) 62Numbers 70-163, 1925-1926 (14 folders) 63Numbers 176-438 and unnumbered, 1925-1930 (4 folders) Employee diaries, 1924 Expense account receipts, 1935-1940 (3 folders) Field notes Terminal facilities, 1925-1926 (2 folders) Trips to Chicago, Ill., St. Paul, Minn., and St. Louis, Mo., 1929 Memoranda, 1931-1940, n.d. (3 folders) 64Notes 1930-1937, n.d. (12 folders) 651938-1940, n.d. (7 folders) Requisition receipts, 1930, 1936-1940 (2 folders) Sales Section, used car report, 1929 Truck Co. Catalog, 1930 Fact book, 1925-1927, n.d. Miscellaneous reports, 1930-1931 Transcontinental tour account, 1917 66Germany, 1924-1938 Goodyear Co., six-wheel truck and bus report, 1922, n.d. Great Britain Commercial Motor Users Association, 1923-1927, n.d. Conference on Rail and Road Transport, London, England, 1932 General, 1921-1940, n.d. See also Oversize Great Western Railway, 1922-1931, n.d. London General Omnibus Co., n.d. London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 1932-1936, n.d. Ministry of Transport, reports 1923-1924 671925, 1937 Society of Motor Manufacturers, 1928-1936 Harper Hanger Corp., 1927 Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, Cambridge, Mass., transportation course, 1928(6 folders)68(2 folders) Highways Bibliography, 1935 Funding, 1924-1937 (2 folders) General, 1932-1938, n.d. Newspaper clippings, 1925-1933 (3 folders) Horner, Leonard S., photograph, n.d. Horses, 1926-1929 Huntington “angle-o-meter,” horizon instrument for aircraft, 1934 International Chamber of Commerce, transportation conference, 1931 Interstate Bus and Truck Conference, Harrisburg, Pa., 1933 Interstate Conference on Automotive Taxation, Chicago, Ill., 1939 Kettering, Charles Franklin, 1931-1936 69Legislation, regulation, and taxation General, 1923-1940, n.d. (7 folders) Newspaper clippings, 1924-1933 Lotos Club, New York, N.Y., 1932-1933 Maps, 1922, n.d. Membership cards, 1930 70Memoirs, 1956 (3 folders) Merchants' Association of New York, 1926 Metropolitan Automobile Association, n.d. Midwest Motor Transport Conference, Chicago, Ill., 1925 National Transportation (Coolidge Committee) Committee Newspaper clippings, 1932-1933 Report, 1933 Netherlands, 1938, n.d. See also Oversize New England Street Railway Club, Boston, Mass., 1922 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co., motor truck transfer report, n.d. New York World's Fair “Highways and Horizons,” General Motors Corp. exhibit, 1939-1940 See also Oversize “Railroads on parade,” exhibit, 1939 Sloan, Alfred P., speech, 1940 Notes, miscellaneous, 1923-1929, n.d. Passenger statistics, 1931-1932 Photographs, n.d. Poetry, 1932, n.d. Political literature and button, miscellaneous, 1927-1934, n.d. See also Oversize Railroads General, 1921-1932, n.d. (3 folders) Miscellaneous statistics, 1931-1939, n.d. 71Newspaper clippings, 1925-1933 (8 folders) Printed ephemera, 1923-1934, n.d. See also Oversize Trains, 1932-1935 Railway Business Association, 1932-1933 Regional Plan Association, 1940, n.d. (2 folders) 72Regional planning Newspaper clippings, 1928-1932 Transportation, 1920 Sloan, Alfred P., 1932-1935, n.d. Society of Automotive Engineers Regulation and Legislation Committee Correspondence, 1936 (3 folders) Miscellaneous, 1934-1936 Reorganization Committee, 1928 Winchester, John F., correspondence re nomination, 1933-1934 Soviet Union, 1931-1934, n.d. Speeches By Horner “Application of Motor Transport to the Movement of Freight and Passengers,” World Engineering Congress, Tokyo, Japan, 1929Background material, 1927-1929, n.d.Drafts, 1929 (3 folders)Miscellaneous notes, 1929, n.d.Outline, 1929Reactions to speech, 1929-1930 73“Britain's Railway Terminal Trucking System,” National Team and Motor Truck Owners' Association, Milwaukee, Wis., 1923 “Distribution Methods in England and America,” n.d. “English Cartage Practice: A Standard for Our Railway Terminal Trucking,” Society of Automotive Engineers, Cleveland, Ohio, 1923 (2 folders) “Problems of the Highway User in the United States,” American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, N.Y., 1939 “World Travel,” Women's Traffic Club of Greater New York, N.Y., 1938 By others, 1921-1939 (5 folders) Taxicabs, 1930-1931 Traffic Accidents General, 1924-1936, n.d. Newspaper clippings 1925-1927 741928-1931 General, 1928, n.d. Problems, 1926-1931 Traffic Club, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1936 Transportation Competition and coordination General, 1924-1937, n.d. See also Oversize(5 folders) Newspaper clippings, 1925-1933, n.d. (4 folders) 75Miscellaneous organizations and conferences, 1921-1937 See also Oversize Motor, general, 1926-1935, n.d. Waterway General, 1925-1927, 1936 Newspaper clippings, 1925-1932 (2 folders) Trucks General, 1924-1940, n.d. Newspaper clippings, 1925-1933, n.d. (4 folders) Printed ephemera, 1921-1937, n.d. Tung oil, 1939-1940 For additional material see Container 27, Szymoniak, Edna(2 folders) United States Army, Transportation Corps, Highway Division, notes, 1940 Ziffrin Motor Express Co., South Bend, Ind., 1928 OV 1-OV 5Oversize, 1921-1960, n.d.

Oversize material removed from the Business Files.

Organized sequentially according to the boxes and folders from which the items were removed.

OV 1Business Files Numerical Files Folder 21 Standard Oil Co., reports re motor vehicle operations, 1921-1925, n.d. (Container 29) Folder 54 American Railway Association, annual bulletin for 1922, 1923 (Container 32) Folder 64 Horner, memorandum re General Motors Corp.'s role in commercial vehicle field, 1924 (Container 32) Folder 191 Joint Committee of Railroads and Highway Users, correspondence, 1932 (Container 41) Folder 201 Truck operations and regulation, printed matter, 1932 (Container 42) Folder 239 Passenger statistics, n.d. (Container 45) Passenger motor car statistics, Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Co., 1930 (Container 45) Folder 256 Highway transportation, miscellaneous material re regulation, taxation, and funding, 1935 (Container 46) Folder 262 United States Army, Transportation Corps, Highway Division, 1940, n.d. (Container 47) Subject Files Air transportation Printed ephemera, 1940, n.d. (Container 50) Automobile industry General, 1932 (Container 51) OV 2General Motors Corp. Commemorative books by Paul W. Garrett, 1936-1960 (Container 61) OV 3Printed ephemera, 1936-1941, n.d. (Container 61) Great Britain General, 1921, n.d. (Container 66) Netherlands, n.d. (Container 70) OV 4New York World's Fair “Highways and Horizons,” General Motors Corp. exhibit, 1939 (Container 70) OV 5Political literature and button, miscellaneous, 1927 (Container 70) Railroads Printed ephemera, n.d. (Container 71) Transportation Competition and coordination General, 1931 (Container 74) Miscellaneous organizations and conferences, 1924 (Container 75)