Women workers on assembly line for directional instruments, Ternstedt Manufacturing Division plant
View of women workers sitting at a conveyor belt, assembling directional indicators for Army aircraft at the Ternstedt Manufacturing Division factory. Label on back: "Women are particularly well adapted to the delicate task of building gyro horizon and directional indicators for Army planes, as shown above on one of the assembly lines at the Ternstedt Manufacturing Division plant of the Fisher Body Division of General Motors Corporation which now is in production on these vital pieces of aircraft equipment. So delicate are the instruments that an invisible speck of foreign matter will throw them out of control. As a result, all work is done in washed air, pressure-controlled rooms, and employes [sic] must wear lint-free clothing such as the smocks worn by these girls. Notice the conveyor belt between the two lines of girls to keep the instruments moving along the line in a continuous stream. This line is for assembly of the directional instruments, and a similar line assembles the gyro horizons instruments. From W.S. McLean, Fisher Body Division, General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. Note editor: This photo and caption have been reviewed by the War Department." Stamped on back: "Fisher Body Photographic, 3-258 General Motors Bldg., Detroit, Mich." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
- Creator:
- Fisher Body Photographic
- Resource ID:
- na040183
- Subject:
- Women aircraft industry employees
- Conveyor belts
- Aeronautical instruments--Design and construction
- General Motors Corporation. Fisher Body Division
- 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, Women workers, 90:4
- Negative Number:
- 7000-509
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.