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Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Riveting a fuselage on a sub-assembly line

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Riveting a fuselage on a sub-assembly line

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Riveting a fuselage on a sub-assembly line

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Drilling holes for rivets in a fuselage on a sub-assembly line

Nashville, Tennessee. Riveting section of a tail assembly at the Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Nashville, Tennessee. In the wing sub assembly section. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Drilling holes for rivets in a fuselage in a sub-assembly line

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. In the fuselage assembly section

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. In the fuselage assembly section

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. Riveting a fuselage on a sub-assembly line

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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tennessee davidson county nashville safety film negatives nashville tenn vultee aircraft company vultee aircraft company fuselage line interior factory united states history workers library of congress
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01/01/1942
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Delano, Jack, photographer
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Nashville (Tenn.) ,  36.16583, -86.78444
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label_outline Explore Vultee Aircraft Company, Fuselage, Nashville Tenn

Nashville, Tennessee. Drop hammer operator stamping out parts for Vultee bombers

B-24 Liberator Bomber and C-87 Liberator Express. Cross-section of the C-87 Liberator Express shows the transport as an adaptation of the B-24 Liberator bomber. In the Liberator Express, the fuselage is stripped, the nose is closed, turrets are eliminated and a large loading door installed. It has a top speed of over 300 miles per hour and a range of approximately 3,000 miles

Weapons from waste. Everytime street railway tracks are ripped out to make way for a bus line, it means additional tons of steel for the defense of democracy. Unused trolley and railroad and railway equipment and rails will provide much of the scrap steel needed for defense production

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Operating a gate valve which controls the flow of refined products through the Tulsa station of the Great Lakes pipeline. This line sends gasoline from Oklahoma to Minneapolis

Fort Knox. Power line construction. This husky member of a construction crew, building a new 33,000 volt electric power line into Fort Knox, Kentucky, is performing an important war service. Thousands of soldiers are in training at Fort Knox, and the new line from a hydroelectric plant at Louisville is needed to supplement the existing power supply

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. Exhaust stacks 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

Known as the P4Y Flying Boat, this new ship is said to be the fastest patrol plane in the Navy. A product of the newly-formed Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Company, it combines all of the latest combat developments

Seattle, Washington. Boeing aircraft plant. Production of B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombing planes. Riveters working on the fuselage section

Nashville, Tennessee. Night view of the final assembly. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Nashville, Tennessee. Vultee Aircraft Company. In the engine installation section

Nashville, Tennessee. Working on a tail assembly of a bomber. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Production. A-31 ("Vengeance") dive bombers. Checking part to blueprint. Here a pair of factory workers check the blueprint with a part which will go into the "Vengeance" dive bombers made at Vultee's Nashville Division. The "Vengeance" (A-31) was originally designed for the French. It was later adopted by the RAF (Royal Air Force) and still later by the U.S. Army Air Forces. It is a single-engine, low-wing plane, carrying a crew of two men and having six machine guns of varying calibers

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tennessee davidson county nashville safety film negatives nashville tenn vultee aircraft company vultee aircraft company fuselage line interior factory united states history workers library of congress