James Nicol Halkett Papers
name: label: Creator
content: Halkett, James Nicol, 1895-1953
label: Names
content: Crowe Name Plate Manufacturing Company
label: Names
content: General Motors Corporation. Fisher Body Division
topic: label: Topic
content: Industrial engineering
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content: Industrial management
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content: Industrial productivity
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content: Machinery industry
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content: Metallurgical engineers
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content: Motion study
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated to the Archives Center by James Nichol Halkett's grandchildren, Kim Gillet, Muffie Austin, Jan Truitt and Scott Halkett in 2018.
creator: label: Creator
content: Halkett, James Nicol, 1895-1953
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content: James Nicol Halkett Papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The collection documents the life and work of engineer and inventor James Nicol Halkett.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: James Nicol Halkett (1895-1953) was born in Scotland. He served in the British Army (Royal Engineers) during World War I. He later transferred to the Munitions Factory of Messrs. Armstrong Whitworth & Co., Newcastle, England as Toolroom Foreman in their Factory at Alexandria, Scotland, fabricating shell and fuse parts. Halkett trained as an engineer in Scotland and immigrated to the United States in 1923, settling in Cleveland, Ohio.  Halkett married Edith Victoria Edler on June 3, 1919 and was naturalized a citizen in 1945.  The coupple had one child, James Alexander Elder "Jim" Halkett (1920-2015).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Cubic feet (6  boxes, 7 map folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1924-1950
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1455
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Blueprints
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content: Laboratory notebooks
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content: Letters
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content: Reports
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content: Test reports
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content: Trade literature
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into three series.

Series 1: Personal Materials, 1930-1942	

Series 2: Companies, 1924-1950	

Series 3: Trade Literature, 1927-1942
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2023.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Blueprints
label: Genre/Form
content: Laboratory notebooks
label: Genre/Form
content: Letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Reports
label: Genre/Form
content: Test reports
label: Genre/Form
content: Trade literature
scopecontent: label: Content Description
content: The collection documents the life and work of engineer and inventor James Nicol Halkett though blueprints, notes about machines and machinery work, lab notes, notebooks with some illustrations, formulas, reports, and trade literature. The bulk of the material documents Fisher Body Company(1923-1929); Crowe Name Plate Manufacturing Company (1929-1932)Globe Machine and Manufacturing Company (1940-1941); and A.S. Campbell Company (1940-1941). Halkett also worked for other companies which are also documented.