Engineer testing control valve for water mains at Rolls-Royce Engine Test factory
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Description
View of an engineer testing control valve for water mains at Rolls-Royce Engine Test factory. The factory produced Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Deep under the foundations of the Rolls-Royce Engine Test factory, an engineer tries out a control valve handling the water mains that feed the cooling units on the testing engines. Water sufficient to handle the needs of a city of 50,000 population is required to cool each day's quota of engines as they come from main assembly to the dynamometer test blocks."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na043382
- Subject:
- Engineers--Michigan--Detroit
- Valves
- 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.