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Thomas A. Edison Laboratories, Building No. 5, West Orange, Essex County, NJ

Thomas A. Edison Laboratories, Building No. 5, West Orange, Essex County, NJ

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Massachusetts production for the Army. 75 mm cartridge cases being trimmed by an accurate machine between draws. The production line is moving at top speed at a large eastern arsenal

The granddaddy of the machine gun. The multi-barreled Billinghurst-Requa Battery gun of 1862. The modern descendents of the battery gun, the latest type of machine gun, are now being produced in large quantities at the armory in the war program

One gun spits 166 of these an hour. 75 mm shells stand as semi-finished ammunition in a large eastern arsenal, which is working at top capacity

Massachusetts production for the Army. 75 mm cartridge cases being trimmed by an accurate machine between draws. The production line is moving at top speed at a large eastern arsenal

Fifteen-pound shells for light artillery. Finish turning 75 mm shells which are coming out of an eastern arsenal on a steady production line

166 an hour needed for each gun. Annealing cartridge case cups for the artillery's 75s. Production is going at top speed at a large eastern arsenal

Chrysler tank arsenal. Close work is done on this milling machine, designed for work on the turret of the 75 mm gun with which M-3 tanks are eqipped. The fittings must be perfect, in order that the gun may have as much play as possible. Four turning, tools and two facing tools are used

Fingers of destruction. Gauging and weighing 50-caliber ball cartridges in an endless row. Production for war is geared up to top speed at this eastern Army arsenal

Production. Pipe fittings. A giant press used in a Midwest plant now forging 75 mm shells for the Army

Battery of machines to arm batteries of guns. Both ends of the 75 mm shells are worked at once on these multiple spindle machines in a large eastern arsenal

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01/01/1942
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States ,  39.95258, -75.16522
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Library of Congress
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Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Cartridge cases for three-inch antiaircraft shells are produced by a series of operations that transform a flat brass disc into a case ready for loading with propelling charge and shell. Between each operation there is careful washing to remove all scale and adhesion and to leave surfaces clean for later processing. The big Midwest plant doing the work is well equipped to handle it in stride

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Stocks of partially completed lengths of seamless copper tube in many sizes. These have still to go through several more draws through dies on drawbenches. Each draw reduces them in diameter and wall thickness, and lengthens them out. Then, before the tubes leaves the mill, the ends will be sawed off straight and clean. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Machining the rotating band on the shell

[Artillery position showing guns, ammunition shells, sandbags, and lean-tos]

Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. General view of the after ends of the ways

Voices for a mighty argument. A long line of big guns being rushed toward completion under the war production program. Guns shown here are being turned out in the major caliber shop of a large eastern arsenal

Citations of individual production merit awarded. The first five Citations of Individual Production Merit have been awarded to five war workers, War Production Drive Headquarters has announced. The citation is the highest honor conferred for individual achievement. It is granted only for ideas or suggestions that have an outstanding effect on the entire war effort. Joseph H. Kautsky, Indianapolis, Indiana, an employee of the Lin-Belt Co., was awarded his citation for four suggestions, each technical. He suggested a grinding wheel adapter, which permits higher speeds in internal grindings; a simplification cutting down the number of special internal grinding spindle wheel adapters from twelve to three; the adoption of a precision screw adjustment to the vertical column of dial indicator guages, to get faster adjustments without danger to the dials; and a new method of testing the concentricity of internally ground parts. The picture shows Mr. Kautsky (center) being congratulated by formean Bill Whitaker (right) as Superintendant R. E. Whitney (left) looks on

Buffalo, New York. These huge machines cut and slice imperfections from steel castings, in this case, gun barrels. They are manned by a man and a woman helper in the processing department of Republic Steel

Girls running warping machines in Loray mill, Gastonia, N.C. Many boys and girls much younger. Boss carefully avoided them, and when I tried to get a photo which would include a mite of a boy working at a machine, he was quickly swept out of range. "He isn't working here, just came in to help a little." Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

[Cannon mounted in the camp of Duryea's and Bainbridge's Batteries, 15th Arkansas Confederate Infantry, Port Hudson, Louisiana] / photographed by McPherson & Oliver, Baton Rouge, La.

Warper Yefim Goldiner at work; there are 14,400 "ends" (threads) on this warp.

[Fair Oaks, Virginia, vicinity. Horatio G. Gibson's C and G Batteries]

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