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Turning out guns. Turning out guns on a modern automatic lathe. This machine is shaping the outside of a gun barrel for the war program

Burnsville Natural Gas Pumping Station, Saratoga Avenue between Little Kanawha River & C&O Railroad line, Burnsville, Braxton County, WV

A black and white photo of a machine in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

Assemblymen moving large strander tube with crane at Watson.

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Turning out guns. Turning out guns on a modern automatic lathe. This machine is shaping the outside of a gun barrel for the war program

Automatic machines. Automatic machines have time and labor in the war program. This modern copying lathe takes a rough rifle stock and turns it to its final shape

Automatic machines. Automatic machines have time and labor in the war program. This modern copying lathe takes a rough rifle stock and turns it to its final shape

New machines for war program. This is a broaching machine. Broaching is an efficient manufacturing method now being successfully adapted to gun making

War work in the groove. A modern rifling machine cutting the grooves in a gun barrel

New machines for war program. This is a broaching machine. Broaching is an efficient manufacturing method now being successfully adapted to gun making

Rounding out the job. Worker in an eastern arsenal machines the breech end of a major caliber gun nearing completion in the nation's huge war production program

War work in the groove. A modern rifling machine cutting the grooves in a gun barrel

The granddaddy of the machine gun. The multi-barreled Billinghurst-Requa Battery gun of 1862. The modern descendents of the battery gun, the latest type of machine gun, are now being produced in large quantities at the armory in the war program

Turning out guns. Turning out guns on a modern automatic lathe. This machine is shaping the outside of a gun barrel for the war program

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

Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.

Caption edited by agency.

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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 37, frame 126.

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massachusetts hampden county springfield safety film negatives lot 2017 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo guns gun barrel war program office of war information farm security administration industrial history factory workers library of congress
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01/01/1940
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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. One of the few lathes bought by a small Eastern manufacturing firm. Unable to purchase much new machinery, the owner of the company installed and remodelled old equipment to produce war essentials under subcontract. First orders were delivered thirty days after contract, an amoazingly short time considering that conversion of machines took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Production. Jeep engines. This grinding machine in a Midwest plant is doing yeoman service in the production of jeep engines for the Army. Continental Motors, Michigan

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

[A detachment of French infantry with 2 quick-firing guns (machine guns)]

[Sullivan's Island, S.C. Guns at northeast angle of Fort Marshall]

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

A black and white photo of a conveyor belt. Dodge Brothers Motor Car Company Plant, Michigan

At the assembly line in the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, Connecticut

Accurate workmanship is required to make perfectly uniform shells for the Army. Inspectors are on the alert to reject those which fail to meet requirements. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. It's all a matter of relative angles and turning speeds. Properly set, this gear-cutting machine tool will produce any kind of beveled, spur, hypoid or other kind of gear. The small hypoid bevel gear shown partially cut in the center of the picture will soon become part of another machine tool after it has been heat-treated, ground, lapped and thoroughly tested and checked

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. The first step in the manufacture of high-altitude-flying shatterproof oxygen cylinders in the metal department of a large rubber factory is the forming or stamping of the shell. Stainless steel sheets are blanked or cut into discs(left foreground). Before stamping, these discs are drawn through rolls where a drawing compound is added to both sides to facilitate the forming of the shell. The 750-ton toggle press, shown above, forms a half cylinder in one powerful stroke. Once the half cylinder is formed, it is trimmed and the value-fitting hole is punched into the spherical dome. A cleaning operation later removes the drawing compound. The cylinder halves are now ready for the various welding operations. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

Transformer manufacture. Building cores for power transformers is highly skilled work. A new electric steel called hipersil is used in these cores, a steel which makes it possible to build smaller cores, and therefore use less copper and steel, both virtually needed elsewhere in the war program. In addition, this hipersil carries one third more magnetic flux than ordinary steel. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

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massachusetts hampden county springfield safety film negatives lot 2017 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo guns gun barrel war program office of war information farm security administration industrial history factory workers library of congress