Workers painting Vough-Sikorsky aircraft wings, Briggs Manufacturing Company
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Description
View of workers painting Vought-Sikorsky aircraft wings at the Briggs Manufacturing Company in Detroit, Michigan. Label on back: "In the paint shop of an automobile plant is demonstrated the first volume production of airplane parts for a member of the motor industry. Above is shown Vought-Sikorsky wings being turned out in quantity by the Briggs Manufacturing Co. in Detroit. Other bomber and fighter parts already in production in the plant are: wings for the Douglas planes, and ducts and flaps for Boeing. (193). Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan." Handwritten on back: "Aircraft--Bombers (Parts & assembly)."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na032392
- Subject:
- Airplanes--Wings
- Vought aircraft
- Airplanes, Military--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), 85:9
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.