Woman worker testing the "run-out" of impellers for a Rolls-Royce engine

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Description

View of a woman worker testing an impeller for a Rolls-Royce engine. Label on back: "Packard News Service. Testing the 'run-out' of the impellers. Here again the operating demands exacted of the new Packard-built Rolls-Royce engine is reflected by a 'run-out' limitation of two ten thousandths of an inch." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."

Details

Resource ID:: na040194
Subject:: Women automobile industry workers; Impellers--Testing; Rolls-Royce engines; Packard Motor Car 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, Women workers, 90:5
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.