| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | TRW Inc. Records
| | | | Creator: | TRW Inc. | | | | Dates: | 1900-1969 | | | | Abstract: | TRW, Inc. was established in 1900, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Cap Screw Company. It began producing automotive parts and underwent several reorganizations, becoming the Electric Welding Products Company (1908), the Steel Products Company (1915), and Thompson Products Inc. (1926). It expanded to include branch plants and the production of aircraft parts, and fostered a company union, the Automotive and Aircraft Workers Alliance (later the Aircraft Workers Alliance). It grew during World War II due to defense contracts. After the war it entered the jet and aerospace industries. It merged in 1958 with Ramo Wooldridge Corp. to become TRW Inc. Outside activities include the National Air Races and the Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The collection consists of minute books, correspondence, memoranda, financial records, newsletters, histories, and publications, the bulk of which relate to Thompson Products, Inc. and its subsidiaries during the 1930s and 1940s and bear largely upon labor management relations. Detailed information on interactions with the CIO, the National Labor Relations Board and the National War Labor Board is included. | | | | Call #: | MS 3942 | | | | Extent: | 84.80 linear feet (184 containers and 86 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | TRW Inc. | National Air Races (Cleveland, Ohio) | Automobile supplies industry -- United States. | Aircraft supplies industry -- United States. | Aircraft industry -- United States. | Aerospace industries -- United States. | Industrial relations -- United States. | Automobile industry workers -- United States. | Aircraft industry workers -- United States. | Aeronautics -- Competitions -- United States. | Airplane racing -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Frederick C. Crawford Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Crawford, Frederick C. Family | | | | Dates: | 1727-1996 | | | | Abstract: | Frederick C. Crawford (1891-1994) was a Cleveland, Ohio, industrialist and philanthropist. Crawford headed Thompson Products, Inc. (later TRW Inc.) as it moved from an automotive and aircraft parts manufacturer into the aviation and aerospace industries. A leader of Cleveland's philanthropic community, Crawford served on the boards of many cultural institutions. He was appointed to the Western Reserve Historical Society Board of Trustees in 1944 and later served as it's president. He was instrumental in the transfer of the Thompson Auto Album and Aviation Museum collection to WRHS in the 1960s, which became the nucleus of the Frederick C. Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection of WRHS. Crawford was married twice; to Audrey Cecelia Bowles in 1932, and to Kathleen M. Saxon in 1975. The collection consists of genealogies, biographical sketches, correspondence, appointment diaries and calendars, ledgers, annual financial summaries, bank statements, trust deeds, tax assessments, returns and other financial documents, stock certificates, wills, real estate inventories, diplomas, award certificates, military discharge papers, corporate annual reports, speeches and broadcast transcripts, newspaper and magazine clippings, articles of incorporation, minutes, and scrapbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 4856 | | | | Extent: | 76.84 linear feet (77 containers and 4 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Crawford, Frederick C., 1891-1994 | Crawford family. | Thompson, Charles E. 1870-1933. | Thompson, Edwin deGroot. | Thompson family. | TRW Inc. | Steel Products Co. | Thompson Products, inc. | Western Reserve Historical Society | Frederick C. Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum. | Case Institute of Technology. | Florida Institute of Technology. | American School of Classical Studies at Athens. | International Aeronautic Federation | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Automobile supplies industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aircraft supplies industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aerospace industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Automobile supplies industry -- United States. | Aircraft supplies industry -- United States. | Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives. | Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe. | International relations. | Aeronautics -- History. | Industrial relations -- United States. | Nonprofit organizations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aerospace industries -- United States. | United States -- History -- 1933-1945. | United States -- History -- 1945-1953.
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