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Letter from Edsel Ford to Elmer Logan regarding "Jalopy Day" at the Ford Building, California Pacific International Exposition, 1935

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Artifact Overview

Take two mechanically inclined boys and a bunch of spare Ford parts and you may soon have a running automobile. Elmer Logan and Dick Nicholson built a vehicle for a "jalopy" contest at the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego. Their entry may not have been pretty, but Edsel Ford was impressed with the boys' determination and ability.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Letter (Correspondence)

Date Made

29 August 1935

Subject Date

29 August 1935

Creators

Collection Title

Edsel B. Ford Office Papers

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

64.167.6.224

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Typewriting

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 11 in
Width: 8.5 in

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