A sketchy pictorial review. Remmert-Werner Inc. and affiliates. . . an outstanding photo album and clippings scrapbook filled with 230 original and commercial photographs and over 200 pieces of ephemera tracing the aircraft airfields affiliates and commercial efforts of the Remmert-Werner Air Service based in St. Louis Missouri at Lambert field from 1942 until the mid-1960s and their expansion to Pompano Florida together with gold Elgin DeLuxe pocket watch with engraved inscription from Curtiss-Wright Corporation on back.
194255329St. Louis MO & Pompano FL: William F. Remmert Elizabeth Douglas Remmert Remmert-Werner Inc. 1942-1963. Thick folio. 14.75 x 12 x 3.5 in. 166 pp unpaginated. most original folio sized beige paper other smaller mylar sleeves with photos & clippings inserted many pages with significant manuscript in ink. With 230 total photographs tipped-in some in corners some inserted into archival sleeves occasional old scotch tape mountings over 30 in colour sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. up to 8 x 10 in. and even 6 x 14 in. most with pencil ink typed or printed captions beside in the lower margins or amongst the 200 clippings mounted and tipped-in to the sheets many large folding two original dealer’s catalogues for the Sabreliner aircraft including dealer literature and business cards. Original padded post-binder embossed & raised decorations in gilt & silver on front cover typed title label taped to upper fore-edge some scuffing edgewear chipping & tears to some leaves toning to newspaper clippings offsetting and ghosting from tape some photos w/ minor tears occasional offsetting from clippings still an excellent exemplar. This impressive and well-documented photo album/scrapbook filled with 230 photographs provide an incomparable visual and textual record for the aviation company Remmert-Werner Inc. from World War II to the 1960s. Remmert 1913-1989 was a high school dropout working at the Curtiss-Wright hangar at Lambert Field in St. Louis where his father worked as a Watchmen in the 1930s. He quickly rose in the company becoming the Curtiss-Wright Company Tech Rep in China during the opening years of World War II and in 1943 became a Naval Officer inspecting material production for aircraft until 1945. As shown in the photographs and explained through clippings and manuscript notes in Remmert’s bold hand Remmert-Werner Air Service was founded at Lambert Field following World War II selling Beechcraft and Cessna Aircraft and buying up war surplus airplanes for conversion. The images depict the Air Ambulance charter service with a fleet of three Beechcraft airplanes from 1945-1946 as well as the Air Service establishing themselves as dealers for Motorola Piper Swift and Fairchild Aircraft founding a Flight Training School and contracting with Texaco to sell aviation fuel at the field. The images also portray Remmert-Werner quickly buying up a couple surplus PT-19 biplane trainers when their flight school expanded to Starling Airport by 1947. They would later begin selling and leasing Beechcraft Lodestar and eventually the Sabreliner corporate jets. The photographs also display their twin engine Beech D18S aircraft setting in front of the Remmert-Werner hangar with Texaco signage and Texaco oil truck the Cessna 140 winner of the Miami Air Races Motorola Radio J3 Cub aircraft their Vultee BT-13 Valiant trainer aircraft and even a Convair B-36 Peacemaker which was the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built on display at an Army air show on Lambert field with the Remmert-Werner hangars in the background. Remmert-Werner quickly moved into converting aircraft for corporate clients in 1946 and over the next two decades would convert over 200 aircraft service 1000s of planes and became famous for their luxurious flying penthouses for corporate and wealthy clients. Not only are their images showing the clients visiting the Remmert-Werner hangars and airfields with clippings specifying and promoting their clients but also many images of the company dog named Myrtle setting on discarded parts or nosing her way into photos. Remmert & Werner began their career by converting a surplus C-47A to the DC-3 “Prairie Wings†by enlarging the windows installing luxurious seats galley operations and upon completion took the whole company to the Indianapolis Air Races in 1948 which were the first following World War II. They also converted and maintained the corporate fleet for the Gaylord Container Corporation by buying up a number of surplus B-25 aircraft and turning them into corporate and freighter planes for Gaylord. In 1948 they began work on creating a deluxe aircraft for Arthur Godfrey 1903-1983 radio and TV entertainer and aviation enthusiast with photos showing the progress the painting news clippings and even an inscribed thank you note from Godfrey. Their other clients included Coca-Cola Procter & Gamble International Harvester Olin Matheson Chemical Grumman Aircraft and Hercules Powder. Their conversions involved gutting the planes and installing completely new systems and interiors including lounge chairs sofas tables lamps galleys and any other special furnishings. They were well known for their DC-3 window modifications which increased the size of the windows for passengers. They also established company affiliates in Toledo OH Cleveland OH Mercer County Airport at Trenton NJ and an airfield in Pompano Beach Florida in 1956. See: Remmert-Werner. . . Big-Change Artists Flying Magazine Dec. 1957 pp. 54-56; Bill Remmert & Bob Werner Airplane Purveyors Aviation Week 2004. William F. Remmert, Elizabeth Douglas Remmert, Remmert-Werner, Inc., unknown
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