Workers producing Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines
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Description
View of workers producing Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "In the race against time, men produced while they trained. As units of the machining division were brought to productive completion, apprentices moved in with seasoned workers and the pool of reserve parts began to grow weeks ahead of actual production."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na043377
- 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.