Oral history interview with Frank W. Burns, 1974.

Biographical Note

Sales representative.

Scope and Contents

Youth and adventures, Chicago and California; 1918, Ford apprenticeship as machinist, tool and die maker; American Can, Pacific Can; move in 1937 to Continental Can as salesman: can companies, competition and products on West Coast; quality control; reduced edge, aluminum and flat top beer cans, vacuum can, tin coating; salesmanship, customers; impressions of Ellison Hazard, Carle Conway Thomas Fogarty, and others.

Subjects

• Burns, Frank W.--Interviews.
• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Factory management.
• Interviews.
• Manufacturing processes.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Sales management.
• Sales personnel--Interviews.