Lord Halifax, Charles Peake and Cyril Cane at factory inspection for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine

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View of Viscount Lord Halifax, Charles Peake and Cyril Cane at official inspection of the factory for the Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine. Label on back: "Interested guests at the inspection of Packard's defense plants: Charles Peake, secretary to Lord Halifax; Cyril Cane, British Consul at Detroit; and the Ambassador."

Details

Resource ID:: na043408
Subject:: Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of, 1881-1959; Merlin engines; Rolls-Royce engines; Packard Motor Car Company; Photographic prints
Date:: 1941-11-03
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.