The University font has some characteristics of the art deco and streamline fonts that appeared in the 1930s, although it is more rounded than the squared Zephyr font depicted here: http://www.railfonts.com/cgi-bin/font_shop/fontshop.cgi?ACTION=enter&thispage=page9.html . A key characteristic is that one side has a large pen stroke or shadow and the other side is normal, to give it a feeling of speed

Several railroads used what is now called the Zephyr font for their new diesels in the mid-1930s because it looked so modern and streamlined (it was probably first used on the Burlington Pioneer Zephyr, 1934: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Zephyr). It continued to be used by some railroads into the 1960s (I know the Rock Island Line used it on its diesels)

Other than its rounded edges, I don't see the University font as a good match for the fonts on the chips in the original post