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The fine maneuvering qualities of the Army's halftrac scout car depends largely on the tractor belt. The mounting of the belt on the chassis is handled deftly by a skilled crew on the assembly line of an Ohio truck manufacturer. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

A couple of men working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

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

Two men working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

Halftrac scout cars ready for the Army except for the addition of certain pieces of Army equipment. The cars as they stand in the yard of a Midwest manufacturer are ready for combat duty. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

A man working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A halftrac scout car gets a touch-up job on the chassis assembly line of an Ohio truck plant. A durable finish protects the metal--and helps to bring the vehicle up to Army standards of smartness. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Halftrac scout cars. Under the skilled hands of trained workers, the engine for an Army halftrac scout car begins to take form. Each of its parts is built to stand up under the conditions imposed by modern warfare on mechanized equipment. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Two men working on a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

The fine maneuvering qualities of the Army's halftrac scout car depends largely on the tractor belt. The mounting of the belt on the chassis is handled deftly by a skilled crew on the assembly line of an Ohio truck manufacturer. White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

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01/01/1941
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[The crew of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Asar-i Tevfik] / Constantinople, Abdullah Frères.

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Lumberjack making a "rubberman". This rubberman is used when a lumberjack who is sawing down a tree does not have a partner. The cross-saw is attached to the heavy rubber belt which holds saw secure while one man saws

Medical flora, or, Manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history, &c.: and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes, volume 1

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Stocks of partially completed lengths of seamless copper tube in many sizes. These have still to go through several more draws through dies on drawbenches. Each draw reduces them in diameter and wall thickness, and lengthens them out. Then, before the tubes leaves the mill, the ends will be sawed off straight and clean. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

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

Potomac Electric Power Co. Benning plant. Motor for 25,000 kw frequency changer at Benning plant

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

Parris Island. Marine Corps barrage balloons. Up she goes. A barrage balloon takes to the air under the capable handling of a Marine Corps ground crew at Parris Island, South Carolina. Special marine units assigned to the work have made the balloon barrage an effective method of preventing enemy air attacks on important locations

War production drive. The war production drive committee in the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company plant in Cleveland approved this pledge card. The signing of each card impressed the worker with his individual responsibility for the success of the drive. Many other plants have used similar pledges and many plants forward these signed pledges to Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), as a gesture of their commitment to increase production

Southfields, New York. Interracial activities at Camp Nathan Hale, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service. Boy Scout troop no. 210 of New York, singing for the Protestant service "Onward Christian Soldiers"

[Post war soldier wearing white cross belt, oval US buckel, double breasted coat, epaulets, shako red, white and blue pompom, holding 45-70 rifle with fixed bayonet, wearing gloves, painted backdrop]

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ohio cuyahoga county cleveland nitrate negatives qualities army halftrac scout car halftrac scout car tractor belt tractor belt chassis crew line truck manufacturer ohio truck manufacturer white motor company white motor company farm security administration interior factory 1940 s united states history library of congress industrial history