Collections Spotlight: Lustron Corporation records
The Lustron Corporation was founded in the mid-1940s by Carl G. Strandlund, an engineer and vice-president of the Chicago Vitreous Enamel Products Company. In 1946, He went before a federal control board in Washington D.C. to request an allotment of steel to build prefabricated gas stations. He was denied by the board for fears they […]
