Workers laying concrete forms for tunnel connecting assembly factory with
Grab
Description
View of workers laying concrete forms for tunnel connecting assembly factory for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines to Test and Teardown units. Label on back: "In sub-zero weather, with oil flares to warm numbed fingers, builders fought snow and frost to lay the forms for a tunnel connecting the new assembly factory with the Test and Teardown units beneath a busy street and several spans of railroad track."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na043374
- Subject:
- Concrete construction--Michigan--Detroit
- Construction workers--Michigan--Detroit
- Factories--Michigan--Detroit--Design and construction
- Tunnels--Michigan--Detroit--Design and construction
- 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.