Correspondence, memoranda, blueprints, production reports, and financial records documenting the Manufacturing Department’s (later Pullman Car and Manufacturing Company) manufacture of all-steel automobile bodies, dating primarily from 1919-1925. Includes administrative correspondence and memoranda between Peter Parke, J. Henry Smith (departmental sales manager), and corporate officials regarding the direction of the department, product promotion, Budd Company patent infringement claim investigations, and other matters; and correspondence and memoranda regarding the equipping of plant and office facilities at the Pullman Car Works, the construction of Willys-Overland and Packard prototype cars, and manufacturing procedures. There are also daily production reports, 1923-1925, for Moon and Peerless auto bodies and financial records (monthly financial statements, 1922-1924, billing records, 1924-1925, and journals, 1920-1924).

For contracts with the Moon Motor Car Company and Peerless Motor Car Company, see Record Group 02/01/06, Contracts and Agreements (Manufacturing Contracts), and for auto body patents see Record Group 02/01/07, Patent Files, Pullman Company Archives.