Object Details
sova.nmah.ac.0320_ref130
- Collection Donor
- Nickse, Hugo
- Johnson, Hanford
- Collection Creator
- Comstock, Cheney and Co.
- Pratt, Read and Company
- Collection Donor
- Steinway, Henry Ziegler
- See more items in
- Pratt, Read Corporation Records
- Date
- 1941-1977
- Archival Repository
- Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Identifier
- NMAH.AC.0320, Series 4
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Pratt, Read Corporation Records, 1839-1990, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Scope and Contents
- The records in this series relate to the Gould Aeronautical Division, set up by Pratt, Read in 1942 to manufacture gliders for the U.S. armed forces during World War II. Pratt, Read's long experience with woodworking made this a logical course of action, since the gliders at the time were constructed primarily of wood. Pratt, Read produced three types of gliders during the war. These were the CG 4A "WACO" troop transport glider, the LNE 1 (or PRG 1) training glider, and an experimental bomb carrying plane, the GLOMB. Both of the latter were made for the U.S. Navy, while the CG 4A was made for the U.S. Army Air Forces. This series is composed of eleven subseries.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection open for research on site by appointment. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.
NMAH.AC.0320_ref130
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NMAH.AC.0320
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- Record ID
- ebl-1505493610265-1505493611127-4