Workers constructing bomb bay doors for Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft, Briggs Manufacturing Company Conner Plant

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Description

View of workers constructing bomb bay doors for the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft at the Briggs Manufacturing Company Conner Plant in Detroit, Michigan. Label on back: "Bomb-bay doors for Boeing Flying Fortresses made in an automobile plant. Here in the Briggs Manufacturing Company Conner Plant in Detroit, the first volume production, by a member of the automobile industry, of such airplane parts has been reached. With more than 6,000 parts including 5,400 rivets, these bomber sections are being shipped daily to the main Boeing assembly plant in Seattle, Washington. (199). Briggs Manufacturing Company." Handwritten on back: "Aircraft--Bombers (Parts & assembly)."

Details

Resource ID:: na032373
Subject:: B-17 bomber; Boeing bombers--Design and construction; Aircraft industry--Employees; Briggs Manufacturing Company; 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, Aircraft--Bombers (Parts & Assembly), 85:8
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.