Women workers calibrating gyro horizon instruments, Ternstedt Manufacturing Division plant
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You must have JavaScript and cookies enabled in your browser to flag content.View of women workers calibrating aircraft gyro horizon instruments at the Ternstedt Manufacturing Division factory. Label on back: "One of the final tests in manufacturing of gyro horizon instruments for aircraft is calibration, and shown above is scene from a Ternstedt plant of the Fisher Body Division of General Motors Corporation where such instruments are being built for the Army. Each girl, equipped with a stop-watch, calibrates a bank of four instruments. The instruments must be accurate to the closest degree, for they will soon be guiding pilots on bomber flight at battle-fronts around the world. From W.S. McLean, Fisher Body Division, General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. Note editor: This photo and caption have been reviewed by the War Department." Stamped on back: "Fisher Body Photographic, 3-258 General Motors Bldg., Detroit, Mich." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
- Creator:
- Fisher Body Photographic
- Resource ID:
- na040268
- Subject:
- Women aircraft industry employees
- Aeronautical instruments--Calibration
- General Motors Corporation. Fisher Body Division
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1942-1945
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Women workers, 90:7
- Negative Number:
- 7000-512R
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.