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

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Production. War housing trailers. Many time-saving methods are employed in the making of war housing trailers at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. A heavy-duty stapling machine, for example, makes fast work of fastening the waterproof finish sheeting in place. Later a decorative strip will cover the staple heads and the sheeting will be trimmed off flush with the lower edge of the stip

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

Early knitting machine brought out to show stocking manufacture in 1840. Washington, D.C., Feb. 9. Robert Lawson, lecturing today at the Commerce Department, demonstrated the basic model for making stockings for milady in 1840. The model has been enlarged and improved upon, but is fundamentally the same machine. His lecture upon the art of knitting was made through the cooperation of the Textile Division of the Patent Office, 2-9-39

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Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin. Checking the accuracy of extensometers in the timber mechanics department

Conversion. Safe and lock company. This man and the factory he works in were both accustomed to a different kind of work in times of peace. A former silk weaver and loom repairman, this worker now assembles thirty-seven-millimeter gun mounts in a plant which made safe and locks before Pearl Harbor. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

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

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01/01/1942

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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer

United States. Office for Emergency Management.

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East Springfield, 42.14176, -72.56203

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Library of Congress

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