Q. Bibliography: Ford Motor Company and Russia

Ford Motor Company and Russia 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. 199 Amtorg Trading Corporation Records Subseries
  • box 1 Contracts and Agreements
  • box 2 Procedures
  • box 2-27 Ordering, Purchase Orders
  • box 28 Shipping
  • box 28-37, 46 Accounting
  • box 37 Labor
  • box 37-39 Subcontractors
  • box 39-43 Equipment and Material
  • box 44-45 Blueprints and Photographs 
     
• Acc. 531 Amtorg Trading Corporation Records Subseries
  • box 1 
    • Summary Data
    • Weekly Reports
    • Correspondence 1929-35
    • Agreements 1929;1933
       
• Acc. 632 Amtorg Trading Corporation Records Subseries 
  • box 1 Finance - 1931-32 Billings, Charges, etc. ledger
  • box 2 Finance - 1931-32 Billings, Charges, etc. ledger
     
• Acc. 6 Edsel B. Ford Office Papers
  • box 13 R (includes Report on Russia concerning potential Ford business there), 1923
  • box 86 SA (includes Sales Department memos, including gift of automobiles to Autostroy), 1932
  • box 183 Telegrams 1929 (includes Amtorg Trading Company)
  • box 184
    • Telegrams 1932 (includes Roy Chapin, Secretary of Commerce re: Amtorg; R.B. English re: Amtorg)
    • Telegrams 1934 (includes Amtorg) 
  • box 273 1928 A (includes Amtorg Trading Corporation)
  • box 274 1929 A (includes Amtorg Trading Corporation)
  • box 277 1930 A (includes Amtorg Trading Corporation
     
• Acc. 62 Henry Ford Office Papers
  • box 109 Russia
    
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• Acc. 285 Henry Ford Office Papers
  • box 143 N130 H-I 135 (includes Henry G. Opdycke of New York, re: Russian Trade)
  • box 372 F160 D-E 163 (includes Edward A. Filene re: application of Ford Machines in Russia)
  • box 382 Ford Motor Company; Detroit; Trade School (includes E. Frank Wise and Sherwood Eddy re: Ford equipment in Russia)
  • box 636 Fordson, Michigan, January-June 1927 (includes re: 35 Soviet workmen - mechanics going through plant.)
  • box 637 Ford Motor Company; New York, January-June 1927 (includes Russian statistics and Information)   
  • box 1298 DW-DY (DZ) (includes Steven Dybeta, Chairman, Autostroy, Russia)
  • box 1435 FOL-FOO (FOP-FOQ) (includes Mr. Folland re: work in Russian Factory)
  • box 1436 Ford Motor Company; Russia
  • box 1514 AMERICAN S-Z (includes Peter A. Bogdanov, Chairman - Board of Directors, Amtorg Trading Corp.), 1933-1934
  • box 1593 Ford Motor Company; Moscow, Russia
  • box 2711 LANGA-LANGE (includes Senator William Langer re: shipment of Ford Motor Company Tire Manufacturing Plant to Russia)
  • box 2890 RUSSEL-RUSZ (includes Ford-Russia Agreement Summary)
     
• Acc. 1 Fair Lane Papers
  • box 173 Russia, correspondence, 1917
  • box 181 Tractors 1922 (includes correspondence with Count Ilya Tolstoy regarding tractor sales in Russia)
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• ​​​​​​​Acc. 38 Charles Sorensen Papers
  • box 61 Tractors
     
• Acc. 1870 Report of the Ford Delegation to Russia and the U.S.S.R.
  • box 1 Report of the Ford Delegation to Russia and the U.S.S.R., 1926
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• Acc. 818 Russian Student Delegation Records Series
  • box 1 Letters, memoranda; badge licenses and release forms, of Russians sent to study FMC production methods, 1929-1930
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• Acc. 390 A.M. Wibel Office Papers 
  • box 87 Russian Government - Autostroy, 1929-1937 (3 folders)
     
• Acc. 49 Controllers Office Records Series
  • box 1 Correspondence; Amtorg Trading Corporation, 1946
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• Acc. 157 C.L. Martindale Otto H Husen Files 
  • box 3 Costs; Autostroy
  • box 201 
    • Amtorg Agreements
    • Amtorg (Production Planning Dept. procedure in detail: Production scheduling formula and methods; distribution procedure; service parts scheduling and distribution; export scheduling and export procedures including packing techniques; chart of foreign branches showing differences in types of parts sent to each; 1931-1932)
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• Acc. 479 O.H. Husen Records
  • box 1 Volume 4 (includes Ford employee arrangement for Russia, June 1931)
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• Acc. 713 Correspondence Subseries. International Division
  • box 8 Russia, 1949
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• Acc. 572 Nevins and Hill Research Series
  • box 17 n.11.14 Foreign Agencies and Plants - Russia
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• Acc. 423 Collected Research Papers
  • box 1 "Export of American Technology to the Soviet Union, 1918-1933" by Barbara Kugel
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• Acc. 1702 Ford Motor Company Poster Collection
  • Assembly Line Methods - Ford Motor Company - Russia [Ford assembly instructions in Russian], 1932 (88.331.1-88.331.11)
     
• Acc. 550 Bredo W. Berghoff Photograph albums, 1926
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• Acc. 1660 Photographic Vertical File 
  • box 20 Assembly Line Methods - Russia - Moscow
  • box 134 Ford Motor Company - Buildings - Russia, USSR - Gorki; Moscow
  • box 135 Ford Motor Company - Employees - 1930-1939 Moscow, Russia
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• Acc. 189 Photographs for the Company Series
  • neg 1933-1937 Fordsons in Russia, 4-23-23

Ford News

• Ford Products Sold to Serve in Russia, 9:12:143:3
• Russian Tractor Order Completed by Company, 7:8L:1:3-4
• Ten Thousand Fordsons Shipped on Single Order, 6:8L:1+:1-4
• 50 Russians to Learn Tractor, 6:16F:1:1
• Russia Orders 900 Fordsons for Farm Use, 4:2F:1:2, 4:20L:1:2
• Russia Orders 1,930 Fordsons Tractors, 5:6L:1:4

Vertical File

• Ford Motor Company - Plants - Europe - Russia 
• Ford Motor Company - Russia
• Russia

Oral Histories

• 65_108 Ernest Liebold, pt. 1
• 65_93 O.Z. Ide
• 65_19 Frank Bennett
• 65_225 M.L. Wiesmyer

Books

• My Forty Years With Ford. Charles E. Sorensen
  338.7 F699 S713 2006
   
• American Business Abroad: Ford on Six Continents. Mira Wilkens and Frank Ernest Hill
  338.476292 F699 W685 2011
   
• Ford: Expansion and Challenge, 1915-1933. Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill
  338.76292 F699 N527 1957