Lord Halifax in propeller test cell for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine
Description:
View of Viscount Lord Halifax in propeller test cell for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine. Label on back: "In the vaulted dimness of the propeller test room, Lord Halifax stands in contemplation of a thundering engine. In its strength he sees the destiny of a democracy whose challenging voice is the roar of a million such machines along the front lines of American industry."
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."
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