Engineers designing facility to build Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines
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Description
View of engineers, around a table, drafting plans for an industrial facility to build Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "In Detroit, work was underway as engineers began the layout of a vast industrial facility, while others turned to the design adaptation of a famous engine to American workmanship, experience, metals and machinery."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na043236
- Subject:
- Engineers
- Factories--Michigan--Detroit--Designs and plans
- Merlin engines
- Rolls-Royce engines
- Packard Motor Car Company
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1940-1941
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- Packard--Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines
- Content Note:
- Part of a group of photographs depicting "a forty-week period wherein the Packard Motor Car Company brought the Rolls-Royce Merlin fighting engine from blue print to production."
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.