Packard worker instructing new employees on use of machinery for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines

Description:

View of Packard worker instructing new employees on use of machinery for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Men grown grey in the service of Packard were moved from automotive divisions to lend their skills and teaching experience to the new recruits of defense industry."

Details

Resource ID:

na043376

Subject:

Machinery--Michigan--Detroit

Factories--Michigan--Detroit

Merlin engines

Rolls-Royce engines

Packard Motor Car Company

Packard Motor Car Company--Employees

Photographic prints

Date Issued:

1940 to 1941

Format:

1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.

Member of:

National Automotive History Collection

Filing Location:

Packard--Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines

Note (Content):

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."

Rights:

Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.