Mildred Gray riveting air deflectors, Chevrolet plant
View of Mildred Gray riveting air deflectors at the Chevrolet factory. Label on back: "Frills would never do for this 'laster bonnet' which probably will not appear for the Sunday promenade down the avenue. Practical simplicity is the keynote in milady's headwear in this war year, as typified by this newly designed chapeau worn by Mrs. Mildred Gray, a Chevrolet war plant employee. Rising to a high crown in front, the new type that affords ample room for curls and bangs to be tucked up from the wearer's face, an essential safety factor in machine operation. Blue with neat white trim, this jaunty cap has been provided by Chevrolet for women employees in a plant producing aircraft parts. Here Mrs. Gray rivets air deflectors which control air flow to the cylinder heads of the Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines Chevrolet is mass producing in its nationwide manufacturing system. For general release." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."
- Resource ID:
- na040259
- Subject:
- Women aircraft industry employees
- Rivets and riveting, Aircraft
- Headgear
- General Motors Corporation. Chevrolet Motor Division
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1942-1945
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 10 x 8 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Women workers, 90:7
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.