Workers manufacturing 75 mm. cartridge cases at Buick plant

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Description

View of workers manufacturing 75 mm. cartridge cases at Buick plant. Label on back: "'Long past the experimental stage, the Buick process has been in successful operation for many months ...' Here steel cups for 75 mm cartridge cases are drawn while hot on crank presses, the first operation after the metal is extruded into the cup shape." Handwritten on back: "Conversion."

Details

Resource ID:: na032668
Subject:: Cartridges; Machinery; Automobile industry workers; General Motors Corporation. Buick Motor Division; Industrial mobilization; 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, 86:7
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.