Major General George H. Brett and others at dedication ceremony for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines
Description:
View of Major General George H. Brett, M.M. Gilman, Sir Henry Self and Walter Smith at dedication ceremonies for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. CBS microphone in foreground. Label on back: "Speaking to an international radio audience on August 2, 1941, these men described the highlights of a Ten-Month Miracle that saw the Rolls-Royce fighter engine brought to American production within the defense plants of the Packard Motor Car Company. Standing at the Columbia microphone beside engine no. 1 are, left to right: Major General George H. Brett, Chief of the U.S. Army Air Corps; M.M. Gilman, President of the Packard Motor Car Company; Sir Henry Self, Chief of the British Purchasing Commission; and Walter Smith, of Packard's Rolls-Royce engine staff."
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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