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Box 4

 Container

Contains 31 Results:

"Learadio aircraft radio equipment" -- product price list, 1939 November

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents: Series I: Lear Developments From the Series: Series I: Lear Developments provides insight into one of WPL’s earliest companies, Lear Developments, whose main focus was aircraft radio development and production. The company was established in 1931 and continued through 1939, when it changed its name to Lear Avia Inc. The series includes materials from the lifespan of the company as well as collected items dating earlier and some items dated later due to the restructure.The series is broken down...
Dates: 1939 November

Letter to WPL from Richard Marsen. Recommends a more general tone when announcing new products to protect patents (L-P), 1939 June 20

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents: Series I: Lear Developments From the Series: Series I: Lear Developments provides insight into one of WPL’s earliest companies, Lear Developments, whose main focus was aircraft radio development and production. The company was established in 1931 and continued through 1939, when it changed its name to Lear Avia Inc. The series includes materials from the lifespan of the company as well as collected items dating earlier and some items dated later due to the restructure.The series is broken down...
Dates: 1939 June 20

"Proposed corrugated cutter machine" -- specifications, report, and notes, 1939 March

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents: Series I: Lear Developments From the Series: Series I: Lear Developments provides insight into one of WPL’s earliest companies, Lear Developments, whose main focus was aircraft radio development and production. The company was established in 1931 and continued through 1939, when it changed its name to Lear Avia Inc. The series includes materials from the lifespan of the company as well as collected items dating earlier and some items dated later due to the restructure.The series is broken down...
Dates: 1939 March

"Learadio aircraft radio equipment" -- brochure and poster, undated (circa 1931-1939)

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents: Series I: Lear Developments From the Series: Series I: Lear Developments provides insight into one of WPL’s earliest companies, Lear Developments, whose main focus was aircraft radio development and production. The company was established in 1931 and continued through 1939, when it changed its name to Lear Avia Inc. The series includes materials from the lifespan of the company as well as collected items dating earlier and some items dated later due to the restructure.The series is broken down...
Dates: undated (circa 1931-1939)

"Safer plane homing device passes test" -- Daily News clipping [RM files], 1938 October 13

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents: Series I: Lear Developments From the Series: Series I: Lear Developments provides insight into one of WPL’s earliest companies, Lear Developments, whose main focus was aircraft radio development and production. The company was established in 1931 and continued through 1939, when it changed its name to Lear Avia Inc. The series includes materials from the lifespan of the company as well as collected items dating earlier and some items dated later due to the restructure.The series is broken down...
Dates: 1938 October 13

Facilities and personnel -- photographs, circa 1931-1939

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents: Series I: Lear Developments From the Series: Series I: Lear Developments provides insight into one of WPL’s earliest companies, Lear Developments, whose main focus was aircraft radio development and production. The company was established in 1931 and continued through 1939, when it changed its name to Lear Avia Inc. The series includes materials from the lifespan of the company as well as collected items dating earlier and some items dated later due to the restructure.The series is broken down...
Dates: circa 1931-1939

William Powell Lear (WPL) -- photographs, circa 1931-1939

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents: Series I: Lear Developments From the Series: Series I: Lear Developments provides insight into one of WPL’s earliest companies, Lear Developments, whose main focus was aircraft radio development and production. The company was established in 1931 and continued through 1939, when it changed its name to Lear Avia Inc. The series includes materials from the lifespan of the company as well as collected items dating earlier and some items dated later due to the restructure.The series is broken down...
Dates: circa 1931-1939

License agreement between Eastman Kodak Co. and American Bolex Co. for "reel and sprinkle mount" [RM files], 1937 April 19

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents: Series I: Lear Developments From the Series: Series I: Lear Developments provides insight into one of WPL’s earliest companies, Lear Developments, whose main focus was aircraft radio development and production. The company was established in 1931 and continued through 1939, when it changed its name to Lear Avia Inc. The series includes materials from the lifespan of the company as well as collected items dating earlier and some items dated later due to the restructure.The series is broken down...
Dates: 1937 April 19

Letter to George Haller and Captain James DeArmond, Aircraft Radio Lab from Charles Rowe, Patents Section, Signal Corps. States patent serial number 309,411 for antenna reel mechanism filed and directs to keep serial number and filing date non-public. Includes patent copies [RM files], 1939 December - 1940 June

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents: Series I: Lear Developments From the Series: Series I: Lear Developments provides insight into one of WPL’s earliest companies, Lear Developments, whose main focus was aircraft radio development and production. The company was established in 1931 and continued through 1939, when it changed its name to Lear Avia Inc. The series includes materials from the lifespan of the company as well as collected items dating earlier and some items dated later due to the restructure.The series is broken down...
Dates: 1939 December - 1940 June

"Blind approach by voice" -- notes and sketches [RM files], 1939 August

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents: Series I: Lear Developments From the Series: Series I: Lear Developments provides insight into one of WPL’s earliest companies, Lear Developments, whose main focus was aircraft radio development and production. The company was established in 1931 and continued through 1939, when it changed its name to Lear Avia Inc. The series includes materials from the lifespan of the company as well as collected items dating earlier and some items dated later due to the restructure.The series is broken down...
Dates: 1939 August

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