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Electric Boat Company

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General Dynamics Corporation was adopted as the corporate name. Prior thereto the corporation conducted its business under the name Electric Boat Company.

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Electric Boat Company records

Collection Identifier: Mss:559 1910-1923 E37
Scope and Contents: A collection of unbound letters, principally between the Electric Boat Company of New York and Groton, Conn. and Naval attaché, Commander I.V. Gillis (1875-1948) at Peking, China. Gillis served as agent for the company in China. The letters give a good deal of information of political and financial affairs in China and Japan and they refer principally to the prospect of building submarines for China. Of note is a memo of an interview between Admiral Wei Han and Charles M. Schwab in 1915, at...