Worker operating rotary milling machine, Chrysler Corporation, Plymouth Division plant
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Description
View of worker operating a rotary milling machine at Chrysler Corporation, Plymouth Division plant in Detroit, Michigan. Label on back: "Typical of the conversion of automobile production machinery to war production is the rotary milling machine pictured above. This war formerly used to mill the top and bottom of a Plymouth cylinder block. Now it is being used to mill the radial grooves on the loading mechanism of a Chrysler-built heavy anti-aircraft gun. WP-4504. Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan." Handwritten on back: "Conversion."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na032649
- Subject:
- Milling-machines--Michigan--Detroit
- Automobile industry workers--Michigan--Detroit
- Chrysler Corporation. Plymouth Division
- Industrial mobilization--Michigan--Detroit
- 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, 86:5
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.