Workers assembling Vough-Sikorsky aircraft wings, Briggs Manufacturing Company
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Description
View of workers assembling Vought-Sikorsky aircraft wings at the Briggs Manufacturing Company in Detroit, Michigan. Label on back: "The last few operations are completed on Vought-Sikorsky outer wings in the Briggs Manufacturing Company's plant in Detroit, Michigan. Here, for the first time in the automobile industry, important parts for American bombing planes are being turned out in volume. Other sections being made by Briggs include 70 different ducts for Boeing bombers, bomb-bay doors, gasoline tank cover, and Douglas wings. (205). Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan." Handwritten on back: "Aircraft--Bombers (Parts & assembly)."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na032393
- 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.