Hall-Scott: The Untold Story of a Great American Engine Maker

Francis H. (Brad) Bradford graduated from Stanford University in 1934 with a B.S. in engineering and worked as a staff engineer at Hall-Scott from 1940 until 1958. Among the last Hall-Scott employees in Berkeley, California, Bradford oversaw the plant shutdown. In 1989, he wrote the first history of Hall-Scott, which was an unpublished manuscript. Francis Bradford passed away in 2005 at the age of 97.

Ric Dias graduated from the University of California, Riverside, in 1995 with a Ph.D. in history. He is a professor of history at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Dias has written on Kaiser Steel Corporation and the Cold War. In addition to this Hall-Scott book, Dias and Bradford collaborated on a number of articles concerning Hall-Scott.