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Production. War housing trailers. The floor of a war housing trailer is laid over a chassis in inverted position at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. This facilitates installation of wheel wells of paper plastic and painted with asphaltic preservative paint. Drive screws hold the plastic wheel well in place

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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

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Contributors

Bransby, David, photographer

United States. Office for Emergency Management.

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Location

Los Angeles, California, United States, 34.05223, -118.24368

Google Map of 34.0522342, -118.2436849

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Library of Congress

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Public Domain