Coal handling machinery unloading railroad freight car, Rapid Motor Vehicle Company factory

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Description

View of worker in cab operating clamshell bucket which unloads coal from railroad freight car at Rapid Motor Vehicle Company factory. Bucket is suspended from overhead track. Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephone North 1745. 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich. Detroit, 1231 Woodward, New York, 1931 Broadway." Handwritten on back: "Factories--Rapid Motor Vehicle Co., 1910."

Details

Creator:: Spooner & Wells
Resource ID:: na007274
Subject:: Rapid Motor Vehicle Company; Automobile factories--Michigan--Pontiac; Coal-handling machinery--Michigan--Pontiac; Railroad cars--Michigan--Pontiac; Photographers--Michigan--Detroit; Photographic prints
Date:: 1910
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 6.75 x 9 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: Factories--Rapid Motor Vehicle Co. #1
Negative Number:: Negative #C9335
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.