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Blitz buggies. After it has been totally assembled, the car is painted. Here the paint is being drilled under infrared rays, which process dries the paint from the inside out, thus giving it a slicker finish. Ford River Rouge plant

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Blitz buggies. Finished motors on the conveyor line, which is taking them to the assembly point in the plant. This conveyor line is part of a conveyor system 135 miles long throughout the plant. Ford River Rouge plant

Blitz buggies. The body is securely fastened to the chassis, and the headlights adjusted. Ford River Rouge plant

Blitz buggies. This motor has just come off the conveyor line, and is being placed in the chassis. Ford River Rouge plant

Blitz buggies. This motor has just come off the conveyor line, and is being placed in the chassis. Ford River Rouge plant

Blitz buggies. After the motor has been placed in the chassis and its connections made, the body is lowered into plane. Ford River Rouge plant

Blitz buggies. Blitz buggy being given a test run after completion. The light truck is now ready for delivery to the U.S. Army. Ford River Rouge plant

Conversion. Auto body plant. A job often delegated to women in aircraft manufacture is touching up metal braces on ailerons with paint before wing structure is completed. This picture was taken in one of America's automobile body plants newly converted to airplane production. Briggs Manufacturing Company, Detroit, Michigan

Blitz buggies. After it has been totally assembled, the car is painted. Here the paint is being drilled under infrared rays, which process dries the paint from the inside out, thus giving it a slicker finish. Ford River Rouge plant

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.

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Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 12.

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michigan wayne county dearborn safety film negatives lot 2115 alfred t palmer united states office of war information photo paint ford river rouge plant blitz buggies process dries office of war information farm security administration ford motor company united states history library of congress
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01/01/1941
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Detroit, Michigan. New method of making x-ray photographs size 4x5 inches instead of larger. Used at the Herman Kiefer Hospital for Communicable Diseases, to show various stages of tuberculosis. Timer for x-ray apparatus

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Wings for "Valiant" basic trainers at Vultee's Downey, California plant. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Parke, Davis and Company, manufacturing chemists, Detroit, Michigan. Counting empty gelatin capsules

Blitz buggies. After it has been totally assembled, the car is painted. Here the paint is being drilled under infrared rays, which process dries the paint from the inside out, thus giving it a slicker finish. Ford River Rouge plant

Tire recapping. A recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a tread strip of reclaimed camelback rubber is put into a curing mold. The old tread surface had previously been ground down evenly and coated with rubber adhesive. The plan to recap passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Fiberglass yarns are twisted and plied on standard textile machinery as a step in the manufacture of tapes and cloths, used principally to insulate electric equipment operating under heavier loads today than ever before

Production. Marine boilers. Grinding of welded seams inside the drum of a large marine boiler at a Midwest plant which has converted its facilities to war production

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Lubricating fluid pouring on the base end of a shell which is being finished

Allen Park Veterans Administration Hospital, Southfield Expressway & Outer Drive, Allen Park, Wayne County, MI

A black and white drawing of a building. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

Americans all. In the armed forces and on the production line, Americans of every race and creed fight shoulder to shoulder to defeat the forces which threaten to destroy our liberties. Here, Lewis Ward (left) and Walter Shippe work on the bulkhead of the fuselage of a P-47 pursuit ship. Republic Aircraft Corporation

Ford Motor Company Long Beach Assembly Plant, Oil House, 700 Henry Ford Avenue, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA

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michigan wayne county dearborn safety film negatives lot 2115 alfred t palmer united states office of war information photo paint ford river rouge plant blitz buggies process dries office of war information farm security administration ford motor company united states history library of congress