SAN DIEGO ROHR INDUSTRIES, INC. -- 1975 - 1978: A collection of letters, memos, news releases, promotional literature, photos and other items related to government/military expenditures. Examples are: One large blue folder (Rohr Marine, Inc.) containing 1 copy of Rohr News Release (12/9/76), Rohr Marine “awarded $159.9 million contract for Navy Surface Effect Ship Prototype” (3 pp.), 2 photos of Rohr’s design for the U.S. Navy 3000-Ton SES prototype & Rohr, The SES Story, 1976-- A hard cover booklet synopsizing Rohr’s development of the SES since 1970; stapled packet containing corresp. (12/76) from Congressman Wilson, James E. Fink (Pres. Sandaire) & Wilson office notes re/ SES Program; 1 letter (12/10/76) from Virg Hughes (Service Station Supply Co.) & Wilson’s reply (12/22/76) re/ contract award to Rohr-- “My congratulations to you [Bob];” telephone message reminder (11/29/76--2 p.m.) to Wilson re/ “Car will pick you up at your home around 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, December 2 to go to Andrews for Flight to Panama City to see SES. Will return that evening;” 1 Western Union Mailgram (11/24/.76) from Dorothy Stamper re/ “continuing fight to bring the large surface effect ship production contract to...Rohr Industries;” 1 note (11/23/76) from Norman J. Snow (Manager-Wash. Ops., Rohr) to Ed Terrar (Admin. Asst. to Wilson) with attached 1 page photocopy of “Navy Trying To Save SES Program: Apparent Budget Cut Victim,” Aerospace Daily (11/23/76); stapled packet containing corresp. (10/76) from Fred W. Garry (Chairman, CEO & Pres., Rohr Industries, Inc.) & James J. McDonough (Chairman, American Public Transit Assoc.) re/ “a critical condition has developed in the transit bus manufacturing business” for GM, American Motors & Rohr Industries & appeals to President Ford & to the Urban Mass Transportation Administration to speed up the federal grant process for new buses; small, stapled packet containing a letter (5/27/76) from Congressman Wilson to Fred W. Garry (Rohr, Ind., Inc.), 1 memorandum (n.d.) from Ed to Boss, 1 Western Union Telex (5/12/76) from Fred Garry to Wilson & copies of H.J. Res. 818 (2/19/76) & S.J. Res. 148 (11/18/75), 94th Cong. 1st Sess. re/ measures pending in the Senate and the House Government Operations Committee “to clarify and reaffirm Government purchasing policies;” packet containing “Memorandum of Call” (7/31/76) & attachments with typed notes-- (1.) “Paper on Reserve Merchant Ship Defense System--Chrm. Mahon, House Appropriations--Directed Navy To Study an RMSD System utilizing Helos Manned by the Navy Reserve to provide convoy self protection. Study was funded with with $50,000 FY 75” & (2) one 9 page photocopy of Rohr, “Reserve Merchant Ship Defense System (RMSDS)” which includes b & w photograph of “Rohr Boatyard;” 1 letter (6/23/76) from Ms Dorothy C. Stamper (Technical Librarian, Rohr Ind., Inc.) thanking Wilson for all his help in accessing government inform-ation; 1 letter (7/25/75) from Norman J. Snow (Manager-Washington Ops., Rohr) to Wilson with attached copy of Vernon A. Guidry, Jr., “The Navy’s ‘100-Knot Warship:’ Civilians Aren’t Convinced,” Washington Star (7/24/75) (3 pp.); 1 letter (7/24/75) from J.J. Filiciotto (Group V.P., Aerospace & Marine Systems, Rohr) & Wilson’s reply (8/12/75) re/ “developments associated with the Coast Guard Medium Range Surveillance (MRS) aircraft program;” 1 large, stapled packet containing corresp. (May-Aug. 1975) from Congress-man Wilson, Jack Powell (Senior Rep., Govt. Rel. Dept., Office of Postmaster General), Bernard E. DeLury (Asst. Sec., U.S. Dept. of Labor), Alexander W. Mackie (Corporate Counsel, Rohr-Plessey Corp.), Edward M. Tamulevich (Facilities Procurement Div. Real Estate & Buildings Dept., Postal Service), H.P. White (V.P., Industrial Systems, Rohr), James J. Wilson (Asst. General Counsel, Contracts & Property Div., Law Dept., Postal Service), Larry I. Peeples (Govt. Rel. Manager, Rohr & photocopies of Law Dept., U.S. Postal Service, “Protest of Rohr-Plessey Corporation IFB No. 10-9450-75-A-0020 DECISION” (7/14/75) (6 pp.) & Alexander W. Mackie (Corporate Counsel), “Memorandum In Opposition To The Contracting Officer’s Report...Protest of Rohr-Plessey Corporation IFB 10-9450-75-A-0020 (7 pp.) re/ Rohr-Plessey’s protest “against the award of a contract...to Regan Construction Co., Inc., and Nager Electric Co., Inc. ... for the design, frabrication, and installation of fixed mechanization in the South Postal Annex, Boston, Massachusetts.”