Guests on factory passenger train at dedication ceremonies for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines

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View of guests on factory passenger train at dedication ceremonies for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Painted on train: "Packard special. Packard Motor Car Co. Defense Plant. Aircraft engine dedication Aug. 2, 1941." Label on back: "Guests at the dedication were transported through the plant on a special intra-mural facility, which negotiated narrow aisles and sharp turns to earn for itself a permanent place in defense plant equipment and the pseudonym 'Toonerville Trolley.'"

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Resource ID:: na043393
Subject:: Passenger trains--Michigan--Detroit; Merlin engines; Rolls-Royce engines; Factories--Michigan--Detroit; Packard Motor Car Company; Photographic prints
Date:: 1941-08-02
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.