A standard turret lathe being used for boring operations on seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers at the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant. A set-up for finish reaming the bore and roughing and finishing the powder chamber is shown with seven tubes in the foreground. These howitzers are being produced largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Alternate series LC-USE638-
Image source: General Electric; G-003 DC, NB-2049.
Negative copied from print in lot.
Title and other information from caption on negative.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
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Film copy on SIS roll 0, frame 0.