DeSoto automobiles on assembly line, DeSoto factory

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DeSoto automobiles on assembly line, DeSoto factory
Description:
View of DeSoto automobiles on assembly line of the DeSoto Warren Avenue plant. Label on back: "DeSoto's new body plant. Newly welded bodies in the new body-building operation installed in DeSoto's huge Warren Avenue plant. Here the bodies move automatically on overhead conveyors toward the entrance to the paint department. The DeSoto-designed conveyor attachment permits the bodies to rotate in a circle for ease in painting. WS5418." Handwritten on back: "Warren Avenue plant, Detroit, Michigan. Factories--DeSoto, 1950."
Details
Resource ID:
na040763
Subject:
DeSoto automobile
Assembly-line methods
Automobile factories--Michigan--Detroit
Chrysler Corporation. DeSoto Division
Photographic prints
Date Issued:
1950
Format:
1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Member of:
National Automotive History Collection
Filing Location:
Factories--DeSoto
Rights:
Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.