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Darling Motor Company Records, 1916-1917
GC 1361
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Title: Darling Motor Company Records, 1916-1917
Dates: 1916-1917
Collection Number: GC 1361
Creator/Collector:
Darling, Omer Foy
Darling Motor Company
Extent: 1/2 legal
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, California 90007-4057
Abstract: Company papers include correspondence, customer reservation forms, sales contracts, clippings; the first drawing of the automobile;
photographs; one sales brochure; one metal radiator badge.
Language of Material: English
Research is by appointment only
Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder
Darling Motor Company Records, 1916-1917. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County
Biography/Administrative History
Omer Foy Darling founded the company in Dayton, Ohio. He took over a former Wright-Martin airplane factory.
Scope and Content of Collection
Company papers include correspondence, customer reservation forms, sales contracts, clippings; the first drawing of the automobile;
photographs; one sales brochure; one metal radiator badge.
The records cover the onset of business and production of the Darling car.
Automobiles--United States--History
Darling Motor Company