Engineer testing control valve for water mains at Rolls-Royce Engine Test factory

Description:

View of an engineer testing control valve for water mains at Rolls-Royce Engine Test factory. The factory produced Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Deep under the foundations of the Rolls-Royce Engine Test factory, an engineer tries out a control valve handling the water mains that feed the cooling units on the testing engines. Water sufficient to handle the needs of a city of 50,000 population is required to cool each day's quota of engines as they come from main assembly to the dynamometer test blocks."

Details

Resource ID:

na043382

Subject:

Engineers--Michigan--Detroit

Valves

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.