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Worker operating boring and facing machine, Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Description:
View of worker with boring and facing machine at the Wright Aeronautical Corporation in Cincinnati, Ohio. Label on back: "Please credit Wright Aeronautical Corp. One of 2100 new machine tools in the huge new Cincinnati plant of the Wright Aeronautical Corp. An ingenious 19-ton wizard, this one machine performs 45 boring and facing operations that formerly required 8 machines and does the work in 24 minutes instead of almost 4 hours. The part being produced is a supercharger housing." Handwritten on back: "ACWP - Machine tools."
Details
Resource ID:
na051791
Date Issued:
1942 to 1945
Format:
1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Filing Location:
MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, 87:3
Rights:
Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.