Workers on trucks and automobiles during streetcar strike, Chalmers Motor Company factory

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Description

View of men on trucks and cars in front of the the Chalmers Motor Company factory during a streetcar strike. During the strike, the Chalmers Motor Company provided trucks and touring cars to transport workers to and from their homes. Handwritten on back: "At Chalmers Motor Co. during street car strike, May 13th & 14th, 1915. Chalmers, 1915."

Details

Resource ID:: na043034
Subject:: Automobile industry workers--Michigan--Detroit; Trucks--Michigan--Detroit; Automobiles--Michigan--Detroit; Strikes and lockouts--Street-railroads--Michigan--Detroit; Chalmers Motor Company; Automobile factories--Michigan--Detroit; Photographic prints
Date:: 1915-05
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 4.5 x 6.5 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Collection:: Lazarnick Collection
Location:: General photograph files, Chalmers, 1915
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.