Nash Motors Company Records
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Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
2015
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Title: Nash Motors Company Records
Dates: 1890-1938
Collection Number: GC 1344
Creator/Collector:
Thomas B. Jeffery Company
Nash Motors Company
Extent: (Boxes: 5 legal, 14 letter, 6 1/2 letter, 1 record storage)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, California 90007-4057
Abstract: The records were created by the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin and the Nash Motors Company of Maryland.
Correspondence; financial and accounting records; insurance records; purchase contracts and inventory lists; Rambler price
and parts lists, catalogs, sales brochures and magazines; patents. A few personal papers of Thomas B. Jeffery’s last will
and testament and estate.
Language of Material: English
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Nash Motors Company Records. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Biography/Administrative History
Jeffery produced its first automobile in the U.S. in 1902. In 1916 the Jeffery Company was sold to the Nash Motors Company
which moved its headquarters to Kenosha.
Scope and Content of Collection
The records were created by the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin and the Nash Motors Company of Maryland.
Correspondence; financial and accounting records; insurance records; purchase contracts and inventory lists; Rambler price
and parts lists, catalogs, sales brochures and magazines; patents. A few personal papers of Thomas B. Jeffery’s last will
and testament and estate.
Notable are clippings, correspondence, patent records and lawsuit records beginning in 1902 for challenges by George B. Selden’s
patent to automobile manufacturers. Papers include the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers, a group formed to
collectively defend against the patent challenge.
The collection also includes the following: a magazine article (dated 1975) about Thomas B. Jeffery; and
NHM curator notes (dated 1977).
Automobile industry and trade.