Lord Halifax, M.M. Gilman and George Christopher inspecting crankshaft for Packard 1350 h.p. marine engine

Description:

View of Viscount Lord Halifax, M.M. Gilman and George Christopher inspecting crankshaft for Packard 1350 h.p. marine engine. Label on back: "President M.M. Gilman, Lord Halifax and George Christopher, vice president of Packard, inspect a crankshaft assembly in the Packard marine engine division. Here Packard manufactures a 1350 horsepower, aviation-type, gasoline engine of its own design for the surface torpedo boats of the United States, Great Britain and Canada."

Details

Resource ID:

na043410

Subject:

Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of, 1881-1959

Marine engines

Packard Motor Car Company

Photographic prints

Date Issued:

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.