Lord Halifax, J.G. Vincent and George Christopher examining cylinder liners in the Rolls-Royce engine division

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View of Viscount Lord Halifax, J.G. Vincent and George Christopher examining cylinder liners in the Rolls-Royce engine division. Label on back: "Lord Halifax, with Packard vice presidents J.G. Vincent and George Christopher, inspects cylinder liners in the Rolls engine division. Giant machines turn out these units, made of chrome molybdenum steel, from a seamless tube resembling gas pipe, at the rate of one every two minutes."

Details

Resource ID:: na043412
Subject:: Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of, 1881-1959; 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.