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Title	Vultee Aircraft plant dedication invitation, 1941 April
Personal name	Hickman, Edwin Litton, 1875-1956; Cummings, Thomas Leon, 1891-1968; Cooper, Prentice, 1895-1969
Corporate name	Vultee Aircraft, Inc. Nashville Division Avco Corporation Aviation Corporation Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation. Nashville Division
Topical entry	Military History World War II Home Front Capital City Business Aviation Enterprise Industry World War, 1939-1945--War work--Tennessee--Nashville World War, 1939-1945--Civilian participation--Tennessee--Nashville Factories--Tennessee--Nashville Industrial facilities--Tennessee--Nashville Aircraft industry--Tennessee--Nashville Invitation cards--Tennessee--Nashville Flags--Tennessee Defense industry--Tennessee--Nashville
Geographic entry	Nashville (Tenn.)--History--Sources Nashville (Tenn.)--Social conditions Nashville (Tenn.)--Commerce Nashville (Tenn.)--Social life and customs
Description	An invitation from Governor Prentice Cooper, Judge Litton Hickman, and Mayor Thomas L. Cummings, to the formal dedication of the Nashville division of Vultee Aircraft Inc., to take place on May 4th, 1941. The Vultee logo accompanies the state flag as the invitation header. Vultee was a division of Aviation Corporation (Avco), and during World War II employed nearly 7,000 workers. The Nashville factory built O-49 observation planes, A-35 Vultee Vengeance dive bombers, and P-38 Lightning fighters during World War II. Near the end of the war, Vultee merged with Consolidated Aircraft to become Consolidated Vultee, then Avco. Immediately after the war, the plant produced home appliances and other items through most of the 1950s, but continued producing airplane parts as well. Over the years Vultee produced more than 10,000 wings and tail sections, among them helicopter parts used by the military in Vietnam. Forms part of the Businesses Ephemera Subject Files. 1 invitation: col. ; 7 x 9 in.
Publisher	Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219
Date	1941-04
Type	Text; Ephemera; Invitations
Format	image/jpeg
Identifier	ESF - Bus - Vultee, F1 - Plant Dedication
Language	English
Relation	Nashville Room Ephemera Collection
Coverage	1940-1949
Rights	U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5782.
Location	Closed Stacks-ESF - Bus - Vultee, F1 - Plant Dedication