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Production. Halftrac armoured cars. An arc welder joins parts of the body of a halftrac scout car in the converted Eastern plant of a lock and safe manufacturer. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. An arc welder joins parts of the body of a halftrac scout car in the converted Eastern plant of a lock and safe manufacturer. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. A mechanic at an Eastern lock and safe manufacturing plant assembles one of the last safe doors to be made there as all plant facilities are converted to the production of bodies for halftrac scout cars. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

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Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Straightening a piece of steel plate that will be used in the production of a body for a halftrac scout car. Great numbers of bodies are turned out in this plant, which formerly made locks and safes. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Another halftrac scout car leaves a body assembly line in an Eastern plant producing locks and safes. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. Attaching body parts to a halftrac scout car in the converted Eastern plant of a lock and safe manufacturer. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. An arc welder joins parts of the body of a halftrac scout car in the converted Eastern plant of a lock and safe manufacturer. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

Production. Halftrac armoured cars. A partly-finished halftrac scout car body is lowered on a chassis in an Eastern war plant which formerly produced locks and safes. Diebold Safe and Lock Company, Canton, Ohio

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ohio stark county canton nitrate negatives north canton ohio production halftrac cars scout body halftrac scout car body chassis eastern war plant eastern war plant locks safes diebold safe diebold safe lock company lock company farm security administration 1940 s united states history library of congress car plant car
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01/01/1941
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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North Canton (Ohio) ,  40.87583, -81.40222
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Good men, good machines, good materials mean good gears for the rear axles of halftrac scout cars now being produced for our Army in an Ohio truck plant. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Halftrac scout cars. When the American assembly line gets down to business, things gets done and done well. The assembling of engines for the Army's new halftrac scout cars is a job well done and understood by the trained men of a large Ohio truck plant. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Car pooling at Lockheed Vega. Arrangements are made by phone, and Don's car is left at home. The few miles left in those tires of his can be used for emergency, or the car may be put completely out of service for the duration. Here, Don leaves the plant ready for the trip home under new car pooling arrangement

Safe clothes for women war workers

The tracks for an Army halftrac scout car begins to take shape on the "building wheel" of a Midwest tire plant. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

The chassis of an Army halftrac scout car get a workout. When this test driver at a large Midwest plant has put the machine through its paces, he'll know if the machine meets the exacting specifications of the Army. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

A coat of paint makes anything look better. But the purpose of spraying the undercarriages of the Army's halftrac scout cars is for protection. The job is part of the production routine on a large order being filled by a Midwest truck manufacturer. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Production. Naval gun mounts. The chassis of a large naval gun mount nears completion as workmen of a Midwest machine shop perform final scraping and fitting operations. Westinghouse, Louisville

Fort Benning. Armored forces peronnel. Sergeant of the armored forces and commanding officer of a halftrac scout car. One of the capable men teaching recruits at Fort Benning, Georgia some of the good American ways of upsetting Japanese schedules

Safe clothes for women war workers. Estelle Hendel, twenty-eight, a guard at the Bendix Aviation Plant in Brooklyn, stands before the company service flag and gives the correct salute. Bendix Aviation Plant, Brooklyn, New York

Conservation. Scrap iron and steel. A building truckload of discarded automobiles stripped of all usable parts and non-ferrous materials is delivered to a scrap iron dealer's processing plant in Baltimore, Maryland. This steel will be baled in huge hydraulic presses and sent to steel mills to feed the ever hungry furnaces now turning out steel for the national defense production program

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). The body of a Dodge Army reconnaissance car being lowered into place on the assembled chassis. Bodies for each of the many types of army trucks are synchronized in production with the chassis for which they are intended and are carried from a distant part of the plant by an overhead tram conveyor and are lowered to the chassis with perfect split second timing

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ohio stark county canton nitrate negatives north canton ohio production halftrac cars scout body halftrac scout car body chassis eastern war plant eastern war plant locks safes diebold safe diebold safe lock company lock company farm security administration 1940 s united states history library of congress car plant car