Women workers arranging jeep wiring systems, Willys-Overland Company
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Description
View of women workers assembling the wiring systems for military jeeps at the Willys-Overland plant in Toledo, Ohio. Label on back: "From: Carl Byoir & Associates, Inc., 10 East 40th Street, Ash 4-3466, New York City. For: Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., Toledo, Ohio. Three women employees of Willys-Overland Motors are shown arranging the wiring systems that go into the fast-moving Jeeps manufactured by the company. The light reconnaissance cars are capable of doing 75 miles per hour on a smooth road and can negotiate rough terrain at a swift pace. W-899." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na040234
- Subject:
- Women automobile industry workers
- Willys-Overland Company
- Jeep automobile
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1942-1945
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 6.5 x 8.5 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Women workers, 90:6
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.