Plan for Packard factory to build Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines
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Description
Plan for a Packard factory to build Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Objective of the Packard builders was the creation of more than a million square feet of working floor space. Three new factories were to develop 553,171 square feet of the necessary space. In the interests of time, an additional 500,000 square feet was taken from existing Packard factories through consolidation of departments and other means."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na043242
- Subject:
- 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.