Automotive Oral Histories

Tapes and transcripts of interviews with automotive designers conducted by David Crippen of the The Henry Ford Archives staff during the late 1980's.

In the Benson Ford Research Center you can find bound copies of the transcripts for the following individuals, with some transcriptions availble online:

G. Eugene Adams

Biography Transcript

Robert F. (B) Andrews

Biography Transcript

James A. Arnold

Biography Transcript

L.D. Arrington

Biography Transcript

L. David Ash

Biography Transcript

Ernest Barno

Biography Transcript

Edward Bernays

Biography Transcript

H.G. (Herb) Bibbee

Biography Transcript

Frank A. Bianchi

Biography Transcript

John A. Bird

Biography Transcript

Eugene Bordinat

Biography Transcript

Robert E. Bourke

Biography Transcript

Robert A Boyer

Biography Transcript

William Boyer

Biography Transcript

Colver R. Briggs

Biography Transcript

Roy A. Brown, Jr.

Biography Transcript

William Brownlee

Biography Transcript

Herman C. Brunn

Biography Transcript

Gordon Buehrig

Biography Transcript

William R. Burmeister

Biography Transcript

L.M. Casillo

Biography Transcript

Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

Biography Transcript

B. Ross Cousins

Biography Transcript

Ray & Mary Crawford

Biography Transcript

Trevor Creed

Biography Transcript

Howard (Dutch) Darrin

Biography Transcript

J. Robert Dawson

Biography Transcript

Donald DeLaRossa

Biography Transcript

Robert H. Doehler

Biography Transcript

Alexis DuPont & Alan Carter

Biography Transcript

John W. Ebstein

Biography Transcript

Ramone Everts

Biography Transcript

Virgil M. Exner, Jr. & Virgil M. Exner, Sr.

Biography Transcript

Henry II & Edsel II Ford

Biography Transcript

Wallace Buel Ford

Biography Transcript

William Clay Ford

Biography Transcript

John B. Foster

Biography Transcript

Donald N. Frey

Biography Transcript

Stuart M. Frey

Biography Transcript

Tom Gale

Biography Transcript

Alden Giberson

Biography Transcript

Paul W. Gillian

Biography Transcript

Walter H. Gollwitzer

Biography Transcript

Chalmers L. Goyert

Biography Transcript

Eugene (Bob) T. Gregorie

Biography Transcript

Arnott (Buzz) Grisinger

Biography Transcript

Henry G. Haga

Biography Transcript

Gail Halderman

Biography Transcript

Franklin Q Hershey

Biography Transcript

Frederick E. Hoadley (see also: Wm Shenk)

Biography Transcript

Audrey Moore Hodges

Biography Transcript

David R. Holls

Biography Transcript

James Hothem

Biography Transcript

Irving (Bud) Kaufman

Biography Transcript

Semon Knudsen

Biography Transcript

Donald Kopka

Biography Transcript

Holden R. Koto

Biography Transcript

Homer LaGasey

Biography Transcript

Henry DeSegur Lauve

Biography Transcript

Clare M. MacKichan

Biography Transcript

Strother MacMinn

Biography Transcript

Tucker P. Madawick

Biography Transcript

John Manoogian

Biography Transcript

Fred (Fritz) C. Mayhew

Biography Transcript

John Middlestead

Biography Transcript

Rhys D. Miller

Biography Transcript

William L. Mitchell

Biography Transcript

Lester Morris, C

Biography Transcript

James T. Morrison

Biography Transcript

John Najjar

Biography Transcript

Dick Nesbitt

Biography Transcript

Emmett O’Rear

Biography Transcript

Allen D. Ornes

Biography Transcript

Joseph Oros and Betty Thatcher

Biography Transcript

Lowell Emerson Overly

Biography Transcript

Donald Peterson (Restricted until retirement)

Biography Transcript

Charles H. Phaneuf

Biography Transcript

Theodore Pietsch

Biography Transcript

Arthur (Art) Querfeld

Biography Transcript

David Rees

Biography Transcript

John Reinhart

Biography Transcript

Otto Renz

Biography Transcript

John W. Risk

Biography Transcript

Arthur (Art) Roskall

Biography Transcript

Irvin W. Rybicki

Biography Transcript

Roger Sanson

Biography Transcript

Will Scott

Biography Transcript

William Shenk

Biography Transcript

William Shenk & Fred Hoadly

Biography Transcript

William M. Schmidt

Biography Transcript

Don Schway

Biography Transcript

C. Orval Selders

Biography Transcript

Lawrence K. Shinoda

Biography Transcript

Benjamin Smith

Biography Transcript

Adrian Gil Spear, Jr.

Biography Transcript

Kenneth Spencer

Biography Transcript

Brooks Stevens

Biography Transcript

Charles T. Stobar

Biography Transcript

Tom Tjaarda

Biography Transcript

Richard A. Teague

Biography Transcript

Walter Dorwin Teague, Jr.

Biography Transcript

John (Jack) J. Telnack

Biography Transcript

Robert Thomas

Biography Transcript

Robert Todd

Biography Transcript

Robert Torkelson

Biography Transcript

Alex Sarantos Tremulis

Biography Transcript

David C. Turner, Jr.

Biography Transcript

Suzanne E. Vanderbilt

Biography Transcript

Willemina J. Vandermolen

Biography Transcript

Lewis C. Veraldi

Biography Transcript

Willys P. Wagner

Biography Transcript

George W. Walker

Biography Transcript

Walter Dorwin Teague Associates

Biography Transcript

Stanley Wilen

Biography Transcript

Robert F. Zokas

Biography Transcript

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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