Man signing contract between the British government and the Packard Motor Car Company to build Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines

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Description

Close-up view of a man signing contract between the British government and the Packard Motor Car Company to build Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "On September 3, 1940, His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom entered into a contract with the Packard Motor Car Company, of Detroit, Michigan. With time the essence, this contract called for the creation of a facility, the organization of personnel and coordination of the whole to the earliest possible production of a quantity of Rolls-Royce Merlin XX fighter engines for the Royal Air Force of Great Britain."

Details

Resource ID:: na043123
Subject:: Merlin engines; Rolls-Royce engines; Packard Motor Car Company; Great Britain. Royal Air Force; Photographic prints
Date:: 1940
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Location:: Packard--Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines
Content Note:: Part of a group of photographs depicting "a forty-week period wherein the Packard Motor Car Company brought the Rolls-Royce Merlin fighting engine from blue print to production."
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.