Women workers inspecting valve tappet guides, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation

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Description

View of women workers inspecting valve tappet guides for Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines at the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation plant. Label on back: "2,000 h.p. Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine, valve tappet guide. Photograph #74621. This view shows the final inspection station so necessary to be sure all parts conform to specifications. They also show what former 'automotive' female employees can and are doing to help in the all out war effort at Nash-Kelvinator." Handwritten on back: "Women workers."

Details

Resource ID:: na040262
Subject:: Women aircraft industry employees; Valves--Inspection; Nash-Kelvinator Corporation; 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, 90:7
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.