The Ford Motor Company has constructed and equipped, in eight months an airplane engine building. It covers 17.8 acres, will employ over 14,000 men, will turn out Pratt and Whitney engines at the rate of one an hour for sixteen hours a day. Building and machinery cost twenty-three million dollars. Photo shows three machines on truck, on their way to be installed in the new aircraft building
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
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 17.
Tags
Date
01/01/1941
Location
dearborn
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain