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Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). Plant conversion means machine conversion. Here workers at the Harrisonburg, Virginia shop of Beery and Sons are converting a lathe to turn out parts for a war contractor. All the actual work of conversion and the new tools and jigs needed are made in the shop

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Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). Plant conversion means machine conversion. Here workers at the Harrisonburg, Virginia shop of Beery and Sons are converting a lathe to turn out parts for a war contractor. All the actual work of conversion and the new tools and jigs needed are made in the shop

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Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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Date

01/01/1941

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Contributors

United States. Office for Emergency Management.

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Location

Harrisonburg, 38.44408, -78.87194

Google Map of 38.4440835, -78.8719367

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Source

Library of Congress

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http://www.loc.gov/

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