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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Through the skill and ingenuity of the entire personnel of this small Eastern manufacturing firm, machinery formerly used in production of floor waxers has been converted to production of war essentials. Pictured here is the night foreman employed by the company for fifteen years, who was instrumental in executing the changeover. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Through the skill and ingenuity of the entire personnel of this small Eastern manufacturing firm, machinery formerly used in production of floor waxers has been converted to production of war essentials. Pictured here are the shop's owner (right) and night foreman, both of whom were instrumental in making the change. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Through the skill and ingenuity of the entire personnel of this small Eastern manufacturing firm, machinery formerly used in production of floor waxers has been converted to production of war essentials. Pictured here are the shop's owner (right) and night foreman, both of whom were instrumental in making the change. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. These bench operators of a small Eastern floor-waxing equipment company are working on defense production, all but the worker at left. He's completing assembly of one of the few waxing machines left in the factory. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The owner of this small Eastern floor waxer plant (left) has planned for and almost completed conversion of his equipment to accomodate the defense production for which he has subcontracted. This five-spindle drill press, once used in manufacture of floor waxing machines, has been equipped with special chuck and drill for production of anti-aircraft guns. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The owner of this small Eastern floor waxer plant has planned for and almost completed conversion of his equipment to accomodate the defense production for which he has subcontracted. This five-spindle drill press, once used in manufacture of floor waxing machines, has been equipped with special chuck and drill for production of anti-aircraft guns. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. These twenty-year-old lathes are producing equipment for Uncle Sam's armed forces twenty-two hours a day. Alive to the possibilities of converting old equipment to defense usage, the owner of this small Eastern factory bought and remodelled old equipment which is proving its mettle in 1942. Note overhead power-driven machinery. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. This drill press and all other machines of a small Eastern floor waxer company had to be rebuilt to accomodate defense production parts. Complete retooling was accomplished in two weeks, a phenomenally short time for this job. Credit for this speed falls to both management and workers who entered into the job in a "beat the Axis or bust" frame of mind. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Through the skill and ingenuity of the entire personnel of this small Eastern manufacturing firm, machinery formerly used in production of floor waxers has been converted to production of war essentials. Pictured here is the night foreman employed by the company for fifteen years, who was instrumental in executing the changeover. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

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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 1520.

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Production. Jeep engines. This grinding machine in a Midwest plant is doing yeoman service in the production of jeep engines for the Army. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. War housing trailers. Many time-saving methods are employed in the making of war housing trailers at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. A heavy-duty stapling machine, for example, makes fast work of fastening the waterproof finish sheeting in place. Later a decorative strip will cover the staple heads and the sheeting will be trimmed off flush with the lower edge of the stip

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Dorothy Conger, whose husband is in the Army, inspecting 105 mm. howitzers in the Chain Belt Company plant, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal,in Detroit,turning out twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks. This pair is attaching a hinge plate to the cupola of a gun turret which will be set on one of these rolling arsenals

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Cylinder heads for R-1340 Wasp planes are inspected in a large Eastern plant now producing a huge number of fine American engines for our fighting air forces. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which will eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Nurse instructor, left, shows "refresher course" student the new Wagenstein apparatus in use in post operative cases. Retired nurses brush up on latest techniques through this course before again going on active duty

Fort Story coast defense. It's his job to defend America. It's ours to ensure that defense by a constant supply of guns, ships, tanks and ammunition

Accurate workmanship is required to make perfectly uniform shells for the Army. Inspectors are on the alert to reject those which fail to meet requirements. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. It's all a matter of relative angles and turning speeds. Properly set, this gear-cutting machine tool will produce any kind of beveled, spur, hypoid or other kind of gear. The small hypoid bevel gear shown partially cut in the center of the picture will soon become part of another machine tool after it has been heat-treated, ground, lapped and thoroughly tested and checked

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. The first step in the manufacture of high-altitude-flying shatterproof oxygen cylinders in the metal department of a large rubber factory is the forming or stamping of the shell. Stainless steel sheets are blanked or cut into discs(left foreground). Before stamping, these discs are drawn through rolls where a drawing compound is added to both sides to facilitate the forming of the shell. The 750-ton toggle press, shown above, forms a half cylinder in one powerful stroke. Once the half cylinder is formed, it is trimmed and the value-fitting hole is punched into the spherical dome. A cleaning operation later removes the drawing compound. The cylinder halves are now ready for the various welding operations. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

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pennsylvania york county york safety film negatives lot 2107 howard r hollem united states office for emergency management photo production floor waxer plant floor waxers floorola products war essentials night foreman fifteen years office of war information farm security administration manufacturing united states history factory workers library of congress