Indiana Automobile Industry, 1982
A Guide to the Collection of Oral History Interviews at Indiana University
Bloomington
Finding aid prepared by the staff of the Center for
the Study of History and Memory with a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities Division of Preservation and Access, 2000-2002
Overview of the Collection
Repository
Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory
Indiana University
400 North Sunrise Drive
Weatherly Hall North, Room 122
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: 812/855-2856
Fax: 812/855-0002
E-mail: ohrc@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~cshm
Creator
Indiana University Center for the
Study of History and Memory
TitleIndiana Automobile Industry, 1982
Project No.
ohrc061
Interviews
2 interviews. Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral
materials.
Physical Location
Interviews are housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room
122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells
Library E460. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please
contact the Center for the Study of History and Memory office.
Language
Materials are in English
Abstract
This project deals with the Automobile Industry in Indiana and why
it declined. The interviewees discuss industry within Indiana, concentrating on
Indianapolis in the nineteen twenties.
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains two interviews conducted in 1982. The interviews are 115 minutes and 20 minutes respectively. Both
interviews consist of audio tapes and typed transcripts.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Oral history interviews conducted by the Indiana University Center for the
Study of History and Memory from 1968 to the present, with particular focus on the
history of twentieth-century America and the Midwest.
Usage Restrictions
The archive of the Center for the Study of History and Memory at Indiana
University is open to the use of researchers. Copies of transcript pages are
available only when such copies are permitted by the deed of gift signed by the
interviewee. Scholars must honor any restrictions the interviewee placed on the
use of the interview. Since some of our earlier (pre-computer) transcripts do
not exist in final form, any editing marks in a transcript (deletions,
additions, corrections) are to be quoted as marked. Tapes may not be copied for
patrons unless the deed of gift permits it, and a transcript is unavailable for
that interview. The same rules of use that apply to a transcript apply to the
taped interview. Interviews may not be reproduced in full for any public use,
but excerpted quotes may be used as long as researchers fully cite the data in
their research, including accession number, interview date, interviewee's and
interviewer's name, and page(s).
Preferred Citation
[interviewee first name last name] interview, by [interviewer first name last
name], [interview date(s)], [call number], [project name], Center for the Study
of History and Memory, Indiana University, Bloomington, [page number(s) or tape
number and side if no transcript].
Interview List
Interviewee
Dortch, Carl R.
August 20,
1982
Call Number
82-066
Physical Description
26 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 115 minutes; no
index
Interviewer
Swanson, Catherine
Access Status
Open
Scope and Content Note
Carl R. Dortch, born in 1914, first came to Indianapolis when
his father got a job with Marmon Motor Car Company. Dortch discusses the fact
that many people either passing through or from farm areas that were no longer
hiring became a good labor market for the automobile companies, which were for
the most part family owned businesses. He refers to the mass- roduction
automobile companies of Detroit as a possible impact on decline. Dortch also
discusses the survival of the Indianapolis economy through a variety of
industry as well as the economic growth of the city.
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Keywords
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Corporation Names
- Chrysler Corporation
- Ford Motor Company
- Marmon Motor Car Company
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Personal Names
- Hoke, Frank
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Place Names
- Belleville, Illinois
- Detroit, Michigan
- Indianapolis, Indiana
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Subjects
- family business
- Indianapolis industry
- labor market
- labor relations
- mass production
Interviewee
Hoke, Frank
September 28,
1982
Call Number
82-062
Physical Description
9 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 20 minutes; no index;
biographical data of interviewee
Interviewer
Swanson, Catherine
Access Status
Open
Scope and Content Note
Frank Hoke, born in 1899, discusses the various factors that may
have had an impact on the fall of the automobile industry in Indiana. He speaks
about the history of family owned businesses in Indianapolis, including one his
own father began. Hoke also discusses changes in the automobile industry as a
whole.
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Keywords
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Corporation Names
- Chevrolet
- Holcomb and Hoke Manufacturing Company,
Incorporated
- Marmon Motor Car Company
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Place Names
- Indianapolis, Indiana
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Subjects
- automobile business
- business management
- economic conditions
- water transportation
