Gould Aeronautical Division
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Nickse, Hugo
label: Collection Donor
content: Johnson, Hanford
label: Collection Creator
content: Comstock, Cheney and Co.
label: Collection Creator
content: Pratt, Read and Company
label: Collection Donor
content: Steinway, Henry Ziegler
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content: Pratt, Read Corporation Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1941-1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0320, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The records in this series relate to the Gould Aeronautical Division, set up by Pratt, Read in 1942 to manufacture gliders for the U.S. armed forces during World War II.  Pratt, Read's long experience with woodworking made this a logical course of action, since the gliders at the time were constructed  primarily of wood.  Pratt, Read produced three types of gliders during the war.  These were the CG 4A "WACO" troop transport glider, the LNE 1 (or PRG 1) training glider, and an experimental bomb carrying plane, the GLOMB.  Both of the latter were made for the U.S. Navy, while the CG 4A was made for the U.S. Army Air Forces.
This series is composed of eleven subseries.