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Ford Flivver Bibliography

This bibliography was compiled by staff of the Benson Ford Research Center’s Archives and Library Department based on materials in our collections. If you have questions about these resources, please use our Submit a Question feature. If you are interested in duplication, please see our Duplication Resources FAQ.

Archival

• Acc. 413 Ford Aviation Activities Records Subseries
  • box 2 Brooks, Harry - first non-stop flight to Miami attempt
     
• Acc. 6 Edsel B Ford Office Papers
  • box 43 BP-BZ (includes Harry Brooks re: plane crash), 1928
  • box 48 SI-SP (includes C.E. Sorenson re: Harry Brooks' flight), 1928
• Acc. 38 Charles Sorensen Papers
  • box 56 Brooks, Harry, 1928
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• Acc. 292 Frank Campsall Records
  • box 44 Harry Brooks death
    • Correspondence, 1928-1929
    • Clippings, 1928
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• Acc. 378 Public Relations Research Library Subject Files
  • box 38 Flivver Airplane and Engine, 1945
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• Small Accessions
  • Acc. 1482 Baron, Robert N. Records (Flivver Blueprints and Manuscript), 1936 (and OS)
     
• Acc. 823 PE Martin Papers
  • box 1 Photographs; Airplanes, Ford; Flivver (Harry Brooks), 1928
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• Acc. 188 Personal For Henry Ford Photographs Subseries
  • neg 3393 Chas. Lindbergh prepare to fly Ford Flivver plane showing Henry Ford, 8-1927
  • neg 2284-85 Flivver plane accident at Melbourne, Florida (copy), 6-27-1944
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• Acc. 1660 Photographic Vertical File
  • box 2 Air Pilots / Brooks, Harry
  • box 5 Airplanes / Ford / Experimental / Flivver (1-4)
     
• 2014.68.X.64.1 -Negative (Photograph) Detroit News--Aircraft--Ford Flivver Plane--Henry Ford Looking at Plane
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• 2014.68.X.65.1 Negative (Photograph) Detroit News--Aircraft--Ford Flivver Plane--Harry Brooks in Plane

Ford News

• Tiny Plane is Much Admired, 7:12F:1:2-3
• Air News: Lands on Highway, 8:4L:2:2-3
• Memorial to Pilot, 8:14:115:3

Oral Histories

• 64.167.65.8 Al Esper
• 64.167.65.60 Harold Hicks
• 64.167.65.80 Emil Zoerlein
• 64.167.65.122 J.L. McCloud
• 64.167.65.64 Irving Bacon

Vertical File

• Airpilot / Brooks, Harry
• Airplanes / Ford Motor Company / Flivver

Books 

• The Aviation Legacy of Henry and Edsel Ford. O'Callaghan, Timothy J.
  • 387.73 O15 2000