J.W. Eskridge, A.E. Barit and Captain Walter Godard with completed airplane section, Hudson Motor Car Company
Description:
View of J.W. Eskridge and A.E. Barit, of the Hudson Motor Car Company, and Captain Walter R. Godard inspecting a completed airplane section at the Hudson Motor Car Company. Label on back: "Hudson swings into aircraft production. Production in the aircraft division at the Detroit plants of the Hudson Motor Car Company is making excellent progress, according to A.E. Barit, president of the company. Conversion to armament production started in several sections of the Detroit plants early in 1941, and as a result these projects are in production. One of the major Hudson aircraft assignments is the building of airplane sections and in the picture Mr. J.W. Eskridge, Superintendent of the division, A.E. Barit, Hudson president, and Captain Walter R. Godard, resident representative of the U.S. Army Air Corps are shown inspecting a completed airplane section." Handwritten on back: "Aircraft--Bombers (Parts & assembly)."
