Workers constructing bomb bay doors for Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft, Briggs Manufacturing Company Conner Plant
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View of workers constructing bomb bay doors for the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft at the Briggs Manufacturing Company Conner Plant in Detroit, Michigan. Label on back: "Bomb-bay doors for Boeing Flying Fortresses made in an automobile plant. Here in the Briggs Manufacturing Company Conner Plant in Detroit, the first volume production, by a member of the automobile industry, of such airplane parts has been reached. With more than 6,000 parts including 5,400 rivets, these bomber sections are being shipped daily to the main Boeing assembly plant in Seattle, Washington. (199). Briggs Manufacturing Company." Handwritten on back: "Aircraft--Bombers (Parts & assembly)."
