Production. War housing trailers. Overcoming metal shortage is a big problem in trailer manufacture. Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles has been able to replace metal fenders (wheel wells) successfully with plastic material made by a new process. Paper of forty pounds weight runs from rolls to a tent containing a glue-like solution. After it absorbs this solution, the operator breaks its stiffness by wadding and squeezing
Summary
Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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Date
01/01/1942
Contributors
Bransby, David, photographer
United States. Office for Emergency Management.
Location
Los Angeles, California, United States, 34.05223, -118.24368
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain