Worker adjusting equipment for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines
Grab
Description
View of Worker adjusting equipment for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. On left, plate reads: "Property of Defense Plant Corporation, an instrumentality of the United States Government. Serial no. PAC-DPC." On right, plate reads: "Property of the British government. Serial number BR 6900, Packard." Label on back: "Shoulder to shoulder, the U.S.A. and Great Britain get on with a job in the Packard aircraft factory. The rectangular brass plate denotes U.S. property; the oval, British."
Details
- Resource ID:
- na043387
- 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.