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Production. War housing trailers. Constructed of four-foot sections, the prefabricated Westcraft housing home is sold in 12 x 16 or 12 x 20 size. It may be added to at will, providing separate bedrooms, garage, etc. The model pictured here comprises a combination living-bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. It sells for eleven hundred fifty dollars, furnished as shown. Made by Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles whose principal war effort is the production of war housing trailers

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Production. War housing trailers. Constructed of four-foot sections, the prefabricated Westcraft housing home is sold in 12 x 16 or 12 x 20 size. It may be added to at will, providing separate bedrooms, garage, etc. The model pictured here comprises a combination living-bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. It sells for eleven hundred fifty dollars, furnished as shown. Made by Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles whose principal war effort is the production of war housing trailers

Production. War housing trailers. Knotty pine walls and beamed ceilings give the prefabricated Westcraft home a neat, cozy interior. The door in the background opens into a bathroom, equipped with full-size standard fixtures, including shower. The house may be assembled in four to six hours by inexperienced men, in half the time by skilled carpenters. It may be dismantled in even less time for removal to another site. It is made by Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles, builders of the war housing trailers

Production. War housing trailers. Knotty pine walls and beamed ceilings give the prefabricated Westcraft home a neat, cozy interior. The door in the background opens into a bathroom, equipped with full-size standard fixtures, including shower. The house may be assembled in four to six hours by inexperienced men, in half the time by skilled carpenters. It may be dismantled in even less time for removal to another site. It is made by Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles, builders of the war housing trailers

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer in place at a Lompoc, California project. Electrical, water and drainage connections have been made. Heavy wooden sawhorses are slipped under each end in line with main support of trailer floor, to permit removal of wheels and re-use of tires in delivering other trailers. This trailer was made by Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles

Production. War housing trailers. The front end section of a war housing trailer goes into place at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Plastic wheel wells, which will shortly be covered by cabinet work, are made of paper impregnated with a special hardening solution and formed over molds. This material is a very satisfactory substitute for the steel formerly used

Production. War housing trailers. Many space-saving features are adapted from trailer design to the "Westcraft home" by Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles whose chief work is the building of war housing trailers. James Richards, co-designer with his brother, Thomas, stands at a tiny bar in one of the prefabricated trailers

Production. War housing trailers. War housing trailers under construction at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. The cabinet work of this trailer is nearly completed. Drawers, locker doors, sink top and other prefinished parts will be installed after the trailer has gone through the final painting and bake oven processes

Production. War housing trailers. Paper replaces steel as material for wheel wells at the Western Trailer Company's plant in Los Angeles. Wadded-up paper, impregnated with a glue-like solution is smoothed into place over molds in continuous layers. The material is self-hardening and self-compressing. When dried, it is sanded, sawed and drilled, and may be installed with nails, screws or bolts

Production. War housing trailers. Multiple duty for war housing trailer tires. Back from a trailer housing site comes this Department of Agriculture truck with 150 tires on which new war housing trailers were delivered from the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Upon delivery, trailers are shifted to horses. Wheels and tires are removed and sent back for the delivery of other wooden trailers. The original plan was to leave them on the trailers to make fast evacuation of trailers and workers possible. The acute tire shortage made the plan unfeasible

Production. War housing trailers. Constructed of four-foot sections, the prefabricated Westcraft housing home is sold in 12 x 16 or 12 x 20 size. It may be added to at will, providing separate bedrooms, garage, etc. The model pictured here comprises a combination living-bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. It sells for eleven hundred fifty dollars, furnished as shown. Made by Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles whose principal war effort is the production of war housing trailers

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

Title and other information from caption card.

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 31, frame 484.

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california los angeles county los angeles safety film negatives lot 1912 david bransby united states office for emergency management photo war trailers production western trailer company office of war information farm security administration united states history cabin railroads library of congress
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01/01/1942
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label_outline Explore Lot 1912, Western Trailer Company, Trailers

Children's games and things, Tifton, Georgia, taken at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

[Group at cabin in forest] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Ford Motor Company Long Beach Assembly Plant, Assembly Building, 700 Henry Ford Avenue, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA

Henry Ford Bridge, Spanning Cerritos Channel, Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Metal scrap salvage. The rural scrap collection center at Dexter, Michigan was the scene of much activity as the drive sponsored by the War Production Board (WPB) gained headway. The first load dumped here was followed by many others as farmyards yielded tons of old iron and rubber that put money into the pockets of local farmers and much valuable material back into use

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

New oversize trailer for war workers. Note modern floating axle on the new oversize bus trailer which holds 141 persons and may be the answer to the problem of transporting war workers to outlying defense plants. Designed and built by Office of Defense Transportation and War Production Board (WPB) officials with cooperation of private companies, the trailer rolls on eight standard truck size tires, with the usual six tires on the power unit. The truck trailer unit as a whole is fifty-five feet long

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

Voices for a mighty argument. A long line of big guns being rushed toward completion under the war production program. Guns shown here are being turned out in the major caliber shop of a large eastern arsenal

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. This doesn't look very impressive, just a pile of rock. Well, that's what it is, a pile of limesone, but since limestone is the main ingredient for the refining of high quality steels, heaps of rock such as these mighty important factors in the maintenance of defense production

Hollywood starlet arrives to participate in National Airmail Week. Washington, D.C., May 15. Miss Marion Weldon, Paramount starlet, waves a greeting to the throng as she arrived at Washington Airport today to participate in National Airmail Week as a representative of the film city. Miss Weldon was selected for the honor by the 22 pilots and stunt men who appeared with her in the forthcoming Paramount technicolor production "Men with Wings," 5/15/38

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. A new Pratt and Whitney airplane motor running on a test stand at a large Eastern plant. Before being shipped to one or another of our aircraft factories, the engine must demonstrate its ability to meet rigid Air Force requirements. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

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california los angeles county los angeles safety film negatives lot 1912 david bransby united states office for emergency management photo war trailers production western trailer company office of war information farm security administration united states history cabin railroads library of congress