Worker operating a Baush multiple spindle drilling machine
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Description
View of a worker operating a Baush multiple spindle drilling machine for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Multiple spindle drilling and reaming machines, such as this giant Baush, are used to bring speed and efficiency to the production of cylinder heads and crankcases. Many such machines in the Rolls machining department are capable of drilling a total of ninety-six holes in one and one-half minutes."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na043383
- Subject:
- Drilling and boring 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.