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Converting to war production. Steel workers make structural changes as a big automobile plant is entirely changed over to volume production of army tanks and "jeeps." Ford Lincoln plant, Michigan

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Pontoon construction at the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, Connecticut

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Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Every one of the 10,000 workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit must know his job perfectly in order that there is no time lost as these twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks move on down the assembly line. These men are completing the final assembly of the rear hull plates

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert drivers are employed to test M-3 tanks as they come off the assembly lines at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. These twenty-eight ton behemoths are put through seventy-five miles of stiff testing before they are turned over to the government

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Expert drivers are employed to test M-3 tanks as they come off the assembly lines at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. These twenty-eight ton behemoths are put through seventy-five miles of stiff testing before they are turned over to the government

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

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). The carburator is installed before this 400 horsepower Wright Whirlwind engine is placed in one of the Army's huge M-3 tanks. This mechanic is employed at the Chrysler tank arsenal, on the outskirts of Detroit, where these twenty-eight ton tanks are being made

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This worker is operating an eight-inch spindle machine designed for drilling and finish reaming of the show track and plates of an M-3 tank. Hundreds of specially designed machine tools are used in production of these twenty-eight ton steel giants, at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal, in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). These are partially completed M-3 tanks, twenty-eight ton steel giants being turned out at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. The camera was directed toward the end of the three main assembly lines. Massachusetts assembly methods developed in automobile manufacture are used. Note overhead cranes for heavy parts

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). This is a radial drill with index fixtures, for drilling and tapping holes in the drive housing for the Chrysler medium tank, the M-3. These twenty-eight ton steel monsters are being turned out in quantity by 10,000 workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Stockpiles such as these need constant replenishment now that M-3 tanks have reached a mass production schedule. These are wheel suspension lever forgings, stored outside the huge Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit where 10,000 workers are turning out twenty-eight ton rolling arsenals for the Army

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). The worker in the foreground is inspecting herringbone gears for Chrysler twenty-eight ton medium tanks, just after they have been finished, or "shaved." All parts of these tanks undergo constant inspection after each of the various operations which eventually result in the complete assembled tank

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michigan wayne county detroit safety film negatives tank chrysler worker foreground herringbone gears herringbone gears twenty eight ton medium tanks chrysler twenty eight ton medium tanks parts inspection operations result great depression photographs great depression industrial history factory workers detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress
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01/01/1940
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office for Emergency Management.
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Detroit (Mich.) ,  42.33139, -83.04583
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label_outline Explore Herringbone, Twenty Eight, Gears

Dye house machine operator Martino Cardone tending silk in dyeing tanks.

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

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

Transformer manufacture. Welding is an intrinsic part of the manufacture of transformers. This welder is employed by a large Eastern electrical company whose power transformers are needed by many factories engaged in war production. He's welding cover flanges for steel transformer tanks. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Pompion Hill Chapel, Cooper River, south side, Huger, Berkeley County, SC

Launching of 10,000 ton ships. Soon, one a week like this! The third 10,000 ton vessel to be launched from new shipyard on the East coast slides down the ways into the water. From the present one-every-two-weeks schedule, these "Virginia Dare" type vessels will shortly be produced at double speed; 90 ships in 90 weeks is the goal of the Maritime Commission

Production. Launching of the SS Booker T. Washington. America needs ships to carry its guns and tanks and planes to the battlefronts of the world. A few minutes after the SS Booker T. Washington, first Liberty Ship named for a Negro, was launched at the California Shipbuilding Corporation's Wilmington yards, workmen were busy laying the keel for a new ship in America's growing Victory Fleet

Oil. Vital operations in the refining of lubricants for the war machines of democracy are performed here. These are the solvent storage and surge tanks of the McKean plant of the Quaker State Refining Company, Bradford, Pennsylvania

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corporation Dodge truck plant. Careful check is kept of every detail of production

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

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Assembled tower sections and chiller tanks at the Mid-continent refinery

Cincinnati, Ohio. Gas storage tanks as seen from the towboat Ernest T. Weir on the Ohio River

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michigan wayne county detroit safety film negatives tank chrysler worker foreground herringbone gears herringbone gears twenty eight ton medium tanks chrysler twenty eight ton medium tanks parts inspection operations result great depression photographs great depression industrial history factory workers detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress