Engineers designing facility to build Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines

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View of engineers, around a table, drafting plans for an industrial facility to build Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "In Detroit, work was underway as engineers began the layout of a vast industrial facility, while others turned to the design adaptation of a famous engine to American workmanship, experience, metals and machinery."

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Resource ID:: na043236
Subject:: Engineers; Factories--Michigan--Detroit--Designs and plans; Merlin engines; Rolls-Royce engines; Packard Motor Car Company; Photographic prints
Date:: 1940-1941
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.