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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

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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

Vintage activities at Richon-le-Zion, Aug. 1939. Refrigerating apparatus in the cellars (Wine refrigerators in action during fer[mentation][?]

Vintage activities at Richon-le-Zion, Aug. 1939. Refrigerating apparatus in the cellars (Wine refrigerators in action during fermentation?

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

Pre-WWII collection of Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

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

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Summary

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.
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 30, frame 1531.

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Date

01/01/1942

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Location

pennsylvania

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Public Domain