Lord Halifax, J.G. Vincent and George Christopher examining cylinder liners in the Rolls-Royce engine division

Description:

View of Viscount Lord Halifax, J.G. Vincent and George Christopher examining cylinder liners in the Rolls-Royce engine division. Label on back: "Lord Halifax, with Packard vice presidents J.G. Vincent and George Christopher, inspects cylinder liners in the Rolls engine division. Giant machines turn out these units, made of chrome molybdenum steel, from a seamless tube resembling gas pipe, at the rate of one every two minutes."

Details

Resource ID:

na043412

Subject:

Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of, 1881-1959

Rolls-Royce engines

Packard Motor Car Company

Photographic prints

Date Issued:

1941

Format:

1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.

Member of:

National Automotive History Collection

Filing Location:

Packard--Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines

Note (Content):

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.