Packard engineers checking a Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine

Description:

View of Packard engineers checking a Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine. Label on back: "As the facility for mass production nears completion, Packard engineers put the finishing touches on the first of several 'pilot' Rolls engines built and tested ahead of production, which began on August 2, 1941."

Details

Resource ID:

na043388

Subject:

Engineers--Michigan--Detroit

Merlin engines

Rolls-Royce engines

Factories--Michigan--Detroit

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.