Workers operating polishing units for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines
Description:
View of workers operating polishing units for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "From the ranks of its automotive divisions came these expert Packard operators to man the polishing units in the Rolls aircraft division. In this department are ninety-two powered polishing machines, each equipped with air exhaust systems to remove all metal dusts and other impurities."
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."
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