DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. Experts said they couldn't make precision aluminum and brass castings in this improvised Florida foundry, but it's being done to the exact specifications of a war contract. In Daytona Beach's three-man foundry. A city fireman, a young electrician, and a foundryman are casting important aircraft equipment for the DeLand industrial pool. City fireman J.L. Clayton became curious about the melting of aluminum and brass, and built himself a hobby workshop in the back of the Daytona fire station. It grew into this foundry on the edge of town where, in addition to pool castings, they are turning out a new type of air raid siren
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Public domain photograph of a historic place in Florida, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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Date
01/01/1942
Contributors
Hollem, Howard R., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
daytona beach
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Library of Congress
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