Worker adjusting equipment for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines
Description:
View of Worker adjusting equipment for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. On left, plate reads: "Property of Defense Plant Corporation, an instrumentality of the United States Government. Serial no. PAC-DPC." On right, plate reads: "Property of the British government. Serial number BR 6900, Packard." Label on back: "Shoulder to shoulder, the U.S.A. and Great Britain get on with a job in the Packard aircraft factory. The rectangular brass plate denotes U.S. property; the oval, British."
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.
