Lord Halifax and other men examining gears and propeller hub for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines

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Description

View of Viscount Lord Halifax and other men examining gears and propeller hub for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "The Halifax party examines gears and a propeller hub in a Rolls inspection department. Here, complex gages and checking instruments work to a quarter-thousandth of an inch and profilometers measure surface smoothness to within a millionth of an inch. All parts are minutely inspected and re-inspected."

Details

Resource ID:: na043401
Subject:: Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of, 1881-1959; Merlin engines; Rolls-Royce engines; Packard Motor Car Company; Photographic prints
Date:: 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.