Packard worker instructing new employees on use of machinery for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines

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Description

View of Packard worker instructing new employees on use of machinery for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Men grown grey in the service of Packard were moved from automotive divisions to lend their skills and teaching experience to the new recruits of defense industry."

Details

Resource ID:: na043376
Subject:: Machinery--Michigan--Detroit; Factories--Michigan--Detroit; Merlin engines; Rolls-Royce engines; Packard Motor Car Company; Packard Motor Car Company--Employees; 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.