Worker operating transfer case drilling machine
View of worker operating a transfer case drilling machine. Label on back: "'Master of Applied Ingenuity' might well be the honorary degree that should be conferred upon the Chevrolet production expert who designed this machine to do a creditable war job. Faced with a demand for increased output at a time when machine tools represented one of the most serious production bottlenecks, Chevrolet engineers converted an idle horizontal drill into a special transfer case drilling machine. By using two previously produced Chevrolet transfer cases for drill heads and connecting them to the fixture by eight Chevrolet passenger car universal joints, the engineer created a tool that increased the plant's transfer case output almost 60 percent. The unit was completed in two months against the six to eight months needed for delivery of the special tools needed to do the job; tool costs were cut substantially and scheduled delivery dates for the Army trucks for which the transfer cases were produced were met." Handwritten on back: "Conversion."
- Resource ID:
- na032659
- Subject:
- Drilling and boring machinery
- Automobile industry workers
- General Motors Corporation. Chevrolet Motor Division
- Industrial mobilization
- 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, Conversion, 86:6
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.