Lord Halifax, M.M. Gilman and George Christopher inspecting crankshaft for Packard 1350 h.p. marine engine

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View of Viscount Lord Halifax, M.M. Gilman and George Christopher inspecting crankshaft for Packard 1350 h.p. marine engine. Label on back: "President M.M. Gilman, Lord Halifax and George Christopher, vice president of Packard, inspect a crankshaft assembly in the Packard marine engine division. Here Packard manufactures a 1350 horsepower, aviation-type, gasoline engine of its own design for the surface torpedo boats of the United States, Great Britain and Canada."

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Resource ID:: na043410
Subject:: Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of, 1881-1959; Marine 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.