Collection is open to the public. Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time.
Paper finding aid with additional information is available in Special Collections & University Archives.
Marmion D. Mills was a transportation engineer and consultant who worked at one time for General Motors. Mills is reported to have been an proponent of tearing out streetcar and trolley tracks to make way for automobile and bus lanes.
The collection contains studies of urban transportation systems for companies or for municipalities, with occasional correspondence. Mills authored many of the reports and studies but other authors are Paul Opperman, James Myers, and James Ellis.
The paper finding aid contains a listing of most of the content in the collection.
Transportation systems and/or municipalities represented in the collection include the following:
Buffalo Transit Co., 1948-1949; Golden Gate Transit case (Pacific Greyhound lines), 1954; National City Lines, Inc., 1935-1938; North Coast Transportation Co. and Portland-Seattle Stage Co., 1926-1929; Oklahoma City Railway Co., 1946-1948; San Francisco Municipal Railway, 1950-1954; Seattle Transit System, 1938- 1942; Tacoma Railway and Power Co., Tacoma transit project, 1937-1938; Vancouver, B.C., British Columbia Electric Co. transit service report, 1952-1953.
Other reports, studies, proceedings, and maps include:
a report on the proposed Hood Canal bridge (1955); a report of subway and rapid transit system of San Francisco (1950); 1950s map of San Francisco, photographs of the San Francisco project, and leaflets; general management policies for National City Lines; report of the operating and engineering feasibility of the Cleveland subway; proceedings of a transportation and engineering conference (1954); a study of zone fares (1954); a report on highway classification and state's interests in highways (1952); maps of proposed transit routes (1952; 1953); chart of line earnings per mile in San Francisco (1950; 1951).