We're back to work for a new week at Hagley Library, and we're joined this time by the maintenance crew of the Budd Company's supply room. This photograph was taken on August 21, 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Budd Company was a manufacturer of steel automobiles, passenger rail cars, and other transportation products. The company began in Philadelphia in 1912 as the Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company, which specialized in the manufacturing of all-steel body automobiles. In 1925, the expanding company purchased a plant in Detroit and began to move into the European market. But during the Great Depression, Budd was forced to develop new products and search for other markets. In 1931, Budd built the first stainless steel airplane, and in 1934 the company began to manufacture streamlined stainless steel passenger railroad cars.
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