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Conversion. Army truck parts. An electric flash welding machine sending a million sparks into the air during the process of merging the two ends of a bogie roller ring at a large Midwest rubber factory now converted to war production. These rollers, placed inside the steel and rubber tanks tracks, are used to support the weight of Army tanks

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Conversion. Army truck parts. An electric flash welding machine sending a million sparks into the air during the process of merging the two ends of a bogie roller ring at a large Midwest rubber factory now converted to war production. These rollers, placed inside the steel and rubber tanks tracks, are used to support the weight of Army tanks

Conversion. Army truck parts. Rings and rims, piled to the ceiling in a large Midwest rubber factory now converted to production of war essentials. The spacer rings (left) and the side rings (right) are used for Army transports and supply trucks

Conversion. Army truck parts. Rings and rims, piled to the ceiling in a large Midwest rubber factory now converted to production of war essentials. The spacer rings (left) and the side rings (right) are used for Army transports and supply trucks

Conversion. Auto engines to military truck engines. Forging weapons for war. Crankshafts for military trucks are shaped on a huge Erie forging press served by an endless chain conveyor. Site: a Midwest auto plant converted to war production

Conversion. Auto engines to military truck engines. Forging weapons for war. Crankshafts for military trucks are shaped on a huge Erie forging press served by an endless chain conveyor. Site: a Midwest auto plant converted to war production

Conversion. Automobile plant. Assembling oil distribution pipes to back shaft, flywheel, and clutch mechanism bearings of a huge 90T96 Cleveland press being relocated to perform a major operation on hood panels for 4 x 4 army trucks. The 120-ton machine was moved piece by piece from another plant that is being completely dismantled for conversion to other war production. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile plant. Assembling oil distribution pipes to back shaft, flywheel, and clutch mechanism bearings of a huge 90T96 Cleveland press being relocated to perform a major operation on hood panels for 4 x 4 army trucks. The 120-ton machine was moved piece by piece from another plant that is being completely dismantled for conversion to other war production. Chevrolet Motors, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Auto engines to military truck engines. Forging weapons for war. Crankshafts for military trucks are shaped on a huge Erie forging press served by an endless chain conveyor. Site: a Midwest auto plant converted to war production

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, was designed for the vulcanizing of giant tires used on earth-moving machinery, but is now helping out the war program by vulcanizing self-sealing gas tanks for the nation's war planes. The mold containing the tank has been lowered into the vulcanizing unit and the huge cover is being lowered into position before the heat is turned on

Conversion. Army truck parts. An electric flash welding machine sending a million sparks into the air during the process of merging the two ends of a bogie roller ring at a large Midwest rubber factory now converted to war production. These rollers, placed inside the steel and rubber tanks tracks, are used to support the weight of Army tanks

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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

Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Training for war production at NYA (National Youth Administration) school

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

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

Turkey Pond, near Concord, New Hampshire. Women workers employed by a U.S. Department of Agriculture timber salvage sawmill. The main saw cutting rough boards from the logs is operated by Raymond Lathrop, sawyer, assisted by Raymond De Greenia, roller. Mr. De Greenia's wife, Dorothy, and also his brother and sister-in-law work here

A black and white photo of a woman working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

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

Flash and crash march - Public domain American sheet music, 1883

Women in industry. Aircraft motor workers. Employer resistance to the hiring of women workers in war industries is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, and this young employee of a Midwest aircraft motor plant embodies the reasons for this change of heart. With no previous industrial experience, she mastered the operation of this compressed-air machine in record time, and is now polishing airplane motor parts with speed and skill

Production. Magnesium. Two enormous reservoirs at the huge Basic Magnesium plant in the southern Nevada desert, holding fifteen million gallons each, store water piped from a point miles away

How the two ends met; a story of our square,

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns is the present work of this lathe, shown here at its former job-shaping wooden rollers used with a belt control to carry steaks into the cube steak machine which is this New England plant's normal production. Conversion of this lathe, and the stepping up of its speed, has turned his skill from peacetime work to war production. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

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safety film negatives conversion army truck parts army truck parts flash machine million air process ends two ends bogie roller bogie roller midwest rubber factory midwest rubber factory war production war production steel tanks rubber tanks support weight 1940 s 40 s united states history library of congress