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Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this automobile factory suspended for the duration, the gigantic task of converting the entire plant to war production was taken over by the National Defense Plant Corporation. This involved all degrees of remodelling, the removal of old and installation of new machinery, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself. An ex-automobile worker is pictured here operating a centering machine to determine the plain and stroke of an airplane engine crankshaft. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this au...

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Production. Airplane engines. All the parts of an airplane engine, which has just undergone severe tests in a Midwest plant, are spread out for minute inspection. After the checkup, the engine will be reassembled and sent on for final inspection. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. All the parts of an airplane engine, whi...

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Auto conversion to airplane engines. Automobile company personnel and U.S. Army inspectors view expanse of freshly laid cement covering track wells where freight cars rolled before December 1941. With one hundred percent conversion to airplane motor production, new machinery and equipment will occupy this space. Other requirements of conversion included the denuding of five and one-half miles of overhead conveyers. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Automobile company personnel and ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Magneto side of the Wright four-cylinder motor used in 1911]

[Magneto side of the Wright four-cylinder motor used in 1911]

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 138. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in L... More

[Underside view of the Wright brothers' reconstructed 1903 motor]

[Underside view of the Wright brothers' reconstructed 1903 motor]

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 139. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy ... More

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines assembled for testing in a Midwest plant. After the tests have been run, the engines will be torn down and all parts minutely inspected. After reassembly and another series of tests, the engines will be shipped to airplane factories. Continental Motors, Muskegon

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines assembled for testing i...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Aircraft engines. A veteran of the assembly bench, twenty-two-year-old Anne Weinmen, employee of a large Midwest aircraft factory, inspects pistons to be used in airplane engines. With several years experience in Midwestern plants behind her, Miss Weinmen has developed the patience and dexterity this work requires. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. A veteran of the assembly bench, twenty-...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-go-rounds to gladden the hearts of the nation's children. The carrousel plant in which they work is now engaged in producing war parts in subcontracts from army and navy contractors. Here the hands, which belong to Otto Andre, are bending crate hooks for the packing of airplane engines for export. The bulldozer was used in peacetime work, has since been converted to war work. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-g...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Auto conversion to airplane engines. "We'll be turning out as many airplane engines as Carter does pills," employees of a converted automobile factory told OEM (Office of Emergency Management) photographer. Now undergoing one hundred percent conversion to airplane motor production, this factory employs thousands of workers who are familiarizing themselves with the newly installed tools and machines. Two workers here lathe the cylinder of an airplane motor. Under terms of its contract, production was not scheduled until October, but Herculean efforts of management and labor completed the conversion this spring. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. "We'll be turning out as many air...

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.

[Rear view of the Wright brothers' four-cylinder motor as installed in their 1903 airplane]

[Rear view of the Wright brothers' four-cylinder motor as installed in...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 140. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy ... More

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Inspecting tappet rollers for Pratt and Whitney airplane motors at a large Eastern plant. One careful inspection after another insures that all working parts of our airplane engines are made as accurately as possible. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Inspecting tappet roll...

Picryl description: Public domain image of people, meeting, eating, drinking, food, beverage, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this automobile factory suspended for the duration, the gigantic task of converting the entire plant (floor space: 500' x 900') to war production was taken over by the National Defense Plant Corporation. This involved all degrees of remodelling, the removal of old and installation of new machinery, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself. This hand milling machine, formerly used in manufacture of automobile motors, has been converted to production of airplane engines. In peacetime it was used to mill the pulley keyway on the front of crankshafts. It cost $150 to convert this $1,800 machine with installation of a special fixture to enable milling of staking nicks at each end of crankpin oil hobs. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this au...

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[Magneto side of the Wright four-cylinder motor used in 1911]

[Magneto side of the Wright four-cylinder motor used in 1911]

Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 138. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in L... More

[Powered 1903 machine in the shop]

[Powered 1903 machine in the shop]

Title from reference print. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy in LOT 11512. Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Some of the equipment impossible to convert from automobile engine manufacture to production of airplane motors is shown back of a huge automobile factory. A dismantled paint booth (left foreground) is among the scrap. In the background, against the rising glass roofs of the plant, tar-covered sheds house valuable machines which could not be converted, and are being stored for the duration to make room for the new war equipment. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Some of the equipment impossible ...

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

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With one hundred percent conversion of this automobile factory to production of airplane engines, the gigantic task of remodelling old machinery, removal of old and installation of new equipment, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself was formidable--but speedy. Under terms of its contract, production was not scheduled until October, but Herulean efforts of management and labor reduced this to early spring of this year. Carloads of scrap material torn out of the plant are shown here at a siding back of the factory. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With one hundred percent conversi...

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Production. Airplane engines. All the parts of an airplane engine, which has just undergone severe tests in a Midwest plant, are spread out for minute inspection. After the checkup, the engine will be reassembled and sent on for final inspection. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. All the parts of an airplane engine, whi...

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

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. A top notch mechanic, Mary Josephine Farley expertly rebuilds airplane engines. Although she's only twenty years old she has a private pilot's license and has made several cross country flights. She ranked highest of all competitors on her civil service examination with a grade of 89. Since her arrival at the Corpus Christi Air Base four and one half months ago, she has been made a crew leader

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. A top notch mechanic, Mary Jose...

Public domain photograph - aircraft, aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. A top-notch mechanic, Mary Josephine Farley expertly rebuilds airplane engines. Although she's only twenty-years-old, she has a private pilot's license and has made several cross country flights. She ranked highest of all competitors on her civil service examination with a grade of eighty-nine. Since her arrival at the Corpus Christi Air Base four and one half months ago, she has been made a crew leader

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. A top-notch mechanic, Mary Jose...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Aircraft engines. Woman's place is on the inspection line in this Midwest aircraft plant where increasing numbers of young girls are being employed for this exacting work. Frances Busch and Lorraine Onobato put in five full days a week inspecting and gauging oil pipes for airplane engines. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Woman's place is on the inspection line ...

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Berlin Bender in test room for airplane engines, Bu. of Stds., 2/3/26

Berlin Bender in test room for airplane engines, Bu. of Stds., 2/3/26

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Aluminum casting. These castings are being loaded onto a sandblast table prior to the actual sandblasting operation. Conversion of this large Midwest aluminum foundry to production of war essentials has already taken place. This factory is producing aluminum equipment for Uncle Sam's war effort, under subcontract to other factories producing war items. Destination of the finished aluminum products is kept secret, but they'll probably end up as jeeps and airplane engines. Aluminum Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio

Aluminum casting. These castings are being loaded onto a sandblast tab...

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Production. Aircraft engines. A veteran of the assembly bench, twenty-two-year-old Anne Weinmen, employee of a large Midwest aircraft factory, inspects pistons to be used in airplane engines. With several years experience in Midwestern plants behind her, Miss Weinmen has developed the patience and dexterity this work requires. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. A veteran of the assembly bench, twenty-...

Public domain photograph of aircraft engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. There isn't much these sodlier-mechanics don't know about big airplane engines. Non-coms of a bombardment squadron at Langley Field, Virginia install a ring cowling around one of the four powerful engines of a YB-17 bomber

YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. There isn't much ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Kay Lamphear, half American Indian and half Scotch-Norwegian, has joined the growing army of American women war workers. Employed by a large Midwest supercharger plant, this 21-year-old former costumes model operates a punch press, machining diaphragm blades for airplane engines. Allis Chalmers Manufacture Company

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Kay Lamphear, half American ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Rear view of the Wright brothers' four-cylinder motor as installed in their 1903 airplane]

[Rear view of the Wright brothers' four-cylinder motor as installed in...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 140. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy ... More

[Rear view of the Wright brothers' 1903 motor in the shop, January 1, 1928, before its shipment to the Science Museum in London on January 31, 1928]

[Rear view of the Wright brothers' 1903 motor in the shop, January 1, ...

Title based on: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 140. Attributed to Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. Reference copy ... More

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women are doing work that's vital to Uncle Sam's war effort. At the Maryland League for Crippled Children, they're hand-burring Y's for airplane engines, on subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Despite physical handicaps, these women...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine is torn down after it has gone through a grueling test in a Midwest plant. Each of the disassembled parts will be carefully inspected before the engine is reassembled and subjected to a final checkup. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine is torn down after it...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine is torn down after it has gone through a grueling test in a Midwest plant. Each of the disassembled parts will be carefully inspected before the engine is reassembled and subjected to a final checkup. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine is torn down after it...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane engines. All the parts of an airplane engine, which has just undergone severe tests in a Midwest plant, are spread out for minute inspection. After the checkup, the engine will be reassembled and sent on for final inspection. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. All the parts of an airplane engine, whi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Front of Louis Blériot's airplane, showing engine and part of propeller]

[Front of Louis Blériot's airplane, showing engine and part of propell...

George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph - aircraft, aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine under special test in a secluded and carefully guarded woodland area near a Midwest engine plant. If the engine meets the exacting requirement imposed by the test engineers, it will yield valuable technical data that will influence the construction of other engines

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine under special test in...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. With both arms and legs crippled by infantile paralysis, pretty Mary Elizabeth Conway, twenty-one, does a war job for Uncle Sam, and loves it. She's painting Y's for airplane engines at the Maryland League for Crippled Children, working on a contract to a Baltimore engineering company. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. With both arms and legs crippled by inf...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington inventor says ignition interference from airplane engines is a myth. Ignition interference from airplane engines on aircraft is largely a myth according to C. Francis Jenkins, Washington, D.C., inventor who has designed a radio receiving set which he does not pick up noises from a flying power plant. In this photograph is shown Mr. Jenkins (right) and his laboratory assistant

Washington inventor says ignition interference from airplane engines i...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, aviator, 1910s-1920s, early 20th-century aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Naval air base Corpus Christi, Texas. A top-notch mechanic, Mary Josephine Farley, expertly rebuilds airplane engines. Although she's only twenty-years-old, she has a private pilot's license and has made several cross-country flights. She ranked highest of all competitors on her civil service examination with a grade of 89. Since her arrival at the Corpus Christi Air Base four and one-half months ago, she has been made a crew leader

Naval air base Corpus Christi, Texas. A top-notch mechanic, Mary Josep...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Stud bolts are installed on power cases for Pratt and Whitney airplane motors in a large Eastern plant. This plant is now making great numbers of the finest kind of airplane engines for the plane of our growing air force. Pratt and Whitney Aircraft

Production. Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Stud bolts are install...

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Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines assembled for testing in a Midwest plant. After the tests have been run, the engines will be torn down and all parts minutely inspected. After reassembly and another series of tests, the engines will be shipped to airplane factories. Continental Motors, Muskegon,

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines assembled for testing i...

Public domain photograph of 1930s industry, war production in the United States free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Airplane engines. Before this airplane engine arrived at the point of packing for shipment from a Midwest plant, it had to prove itself a good engine. It has been thoroughly tested after original assembly, torn down for minute inspection of all parts, reassembled and put through final tests and inspection. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. Before this airplane engine arrived at t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine that has been assembled, tested, torn down, subjected to minute examination of all parts, and again assembled in a Midwest plant. It is now getting a bath before final inspection. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine that has been assembl...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Magnesium is used to make light, strong casting for airplane engines. As insurance against possible shortages of this vital metal, Ford has built its own magnesium foundry. The pot in this photo has just been removed from one of the furnace. This pot holds 100 pounds of the magnesium alloy, which is about to be cast into parts for Pratt and Whitney airplane engines. Ford River Rouge Foundry

Magnesium is used to make light, strong casting for airplane engines. ...

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Manpower. Handicapped workers. Auburn-haired, twenty-one-year-old, Belva Fletcher, left, handicapped by progressive paralysis, is still able to do a good job for Uncle Sam. With twenty-five-year-old Henriette Furley, she's painting Y's for airplane engines at the Maryland League for Crippled Children, where this work is done under subcontract to a Baltimore engineering company. Henriette is badly crippled by arthritis and must work standing because of the arthritic condition from which she suffers. White Engineering Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Handicapped workers. Auburn-haired, twenty-one-year-old, Bel...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane engines. Before this airplane engine arrived at the point of packing for shipment from a Midwest plant, it had to prove itself a good engine. It has been thoroughly tested after original assembly, torn down for minute inspection of all parts, reassembled and put through final tests and inspection. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. Before this airplane engine arrived at t...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Aircraft engines. Ready for inspection, this line-up of cylinder barrels for airplane engines makes a formidable display. Engines for America's Victory bombers are manufactured in this enormous Midwest plant. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Ready for inspection, this line-up of cy...

Public domain photograph of manufacturing, industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Airplane engines. All the parts of an airplane engine, which has just undergone severe tests in a Midwest plant, are spread out for minute inspection. After the checkup, the engine will be reassembled and sent on for final inspection. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. All the parts of an airplane engine, whi...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this automobile factory suspended for the duration, the gigantic task of converting the entire plant to war production was taken over by the National Defense Plant Corporation. This involved all degrees of remodelling, the removal of old and installation of new machinery, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself. An ex-automobile worker is pictured here operating a centering machine to determine the plain and stroke of an airplane engine crankshaft. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this au...

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

A group of women sitting around a wooden table. Office of War Information Photograph

A group of women sitting around a wooden table. Office of War Informat...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man working in a factory. Office of War I...

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

Production. Aircraft engines. A veteran of the assembly bench, twenty-two-year-old Anne Weinmen, employee of a large Midwest aircraft factory, inspects pistons to be used in airplane engines. With several years experience in Midwestern plants behind her, Miss Weinmen has developed the patience and dexterity this work requires. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. A veteran of the assembly bench, twenty-...

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 availabl... More

[Left front side of the Wright brothers' reconstructed 1903 motor]

[Left front side of the Wright brothers' reconstructed 1903 motor]

Public domain photograph of a machine part, motor, equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Aircraft engines. Woman's place is on the inspection line in this Midwest aircraft plant where increasing numbers of young girls are being employed for this exacting work. Frances Busch and Lorraine Onobato put in five full days a week inspecting and gauging oil pipes for airplane engines. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Woman's place is on the inspection line ...

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 availabl... More

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Some of the equipment impossible to convert from automobile engine manufacture to production of airplane motors is shown back of a huge automobile factory. A dismantled paint booth (left foreground) is among the scrap. In the background, against the rising glass roofs of the plant, tar-covered sheds house valuable machines which could not be converted, and are being stored for the duration to make room for the new war equipment. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Some of the equipment impossible ...

Public domain photograph of factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Airplane engines. Before this airplane engine arrived at the point of packing for shipment from a Midwest plant, it had to prove itself a good engine. It has been thoroughly tested after original assembly, torn down for minute inspection of all parts, reassembled and put through final tests and inspection. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. Before this airplane engine arrived at t...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Auto conversion to airplane engines. On the site of an automobile assembly line, this battery of Bullard boring machines used in manufacturing of airplane engines, now stands. With normal operations of this automobile factory suspended for the duration, conversion to war production was a gigantic task involving remodelling of machinery, removal of old and installation of new equipment and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself. These boring machines are used to rough cylinder barrels of airplane engines before heat treatment is applied. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. On the site of an automobile asse...

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

Johnson Owen, Wayne county; Elmer Stone, Parkersburg; Wilson Talbott, Buchannon; and Claire Cleppen, Wisconsin, assembling wasp airplane engine, South Charleston, West Virginia

Johnson Owen, Wayne county; Elmer Stone, Parkersburg; Wilson Talbott, ...

U.S. National Youth Administration collection. No. NYA-2. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Aircraft engines. A veteran of the assembly bench, twenty-two-year-old Anne Weinmen, employee of a large Midwest aircraft factory, inspects pistons to be used in airplane engines. With several years experience in Midwestern plants behind her, Miss Weinmen has developed the patience and dexterity this work requires. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. A veteran of the assembly bench, twenty-...

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 availabl... More

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Once vital to automobile production, these dust pipes, ventilators of spray booths and other relics of pre-war days are relegated to the dump heap, useless now that the plant is one hundred percent converted to production of airplane motors. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Once vital to automobile producti...

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

Production. Airplane engines. All the parts of an airplane engine, which has just undergone severe tests in a Midwest plant, are spread out for minute inspection. After the checkup, the engine will be reassembled and sent on for final inspection. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. All the parts of an airplane engine, whi...

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

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this automobile factory suspended for the duration, the gigantic task of converting the entire plant (floor space: 500' x 900') to war production was taken over by the National Defense Plant Corporation. This involved all degrees of remodelling, the removal of old and installation of new machinery, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself. This hand milling machine, formerly used in manufacture of automobile motors, has been converted to production of airplane engines. In peacetime it was used to mill the pulley keyway on the front of crankshafts. It cost $150 to convert this $1,800 machine with installation of a special fixture to enable milling of staking nicks at each end of crankpin oil hobs. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With normal operations of this au...

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

Production. Airplane engines. Before this airplane engine arrived at the point of packing for shipment from a Midwest plant, it had to prove itself a good engine. It has been thoroughly tested after original assembly, torn down for minute inspection of all parts, reassembled and put through final tests and inspection. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. Before this airplane engine arrived at t...

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

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine under special test in a secluded and carefully guarded woodland area near a Midwest engine plant. If the engine meets the exacting requirement imposed by the test engineers, it will yield valuable technical data that will influence the construction of other engines

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine under special test in...

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

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine that has been assembled, tested, torn down, subjected to minute examination of all parts, and again assembled in a Midwest plant. It is now getting a bath before final inspection. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine that has been assembl...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Auto conversion to airplane engines. "We'll be turning out as many airplane engines as Carter does pills," employees of a converted automobile factory told OEM (Office of Emergency Management) photographer. Now undergoing one hundred percent conversion to airplane motor production, this factory employs thousands of workers who are familiarizing themselves with the newly installed tools and machines. Two workers here lathe the cylinder of an airplane motor. Under terms of its contract, production was not scheduled until October, but Herculean efforts of management and labor completed the conversion this spring. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. "We'll be turning out as many air...

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

Auto conversion to airplane engines. "We'll be turning out as many airplane engines as Carter does pills," employees of a converted automobile factory told OEM (Office of Emergency Management) photographer. Now undergoing one hundred percent conversion to airplane motor production, this factory employs thousands of workers who are familiarizing themselves with the newly installed tools and machines. A worker here operates a vertical Bullard turtle lathe, machining part of the aluminum crank case of a fourteen-cylinder airplane engine. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. "We'll be turning out as many air...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engine tests in a Midwest plant provide performance data recorded on an array of precision instruments in a small booth presided over by specially trained men. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engine tests in a Midwest plant...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington inventor says ignition interference from airplane engines is a myth. Ignition interference from airplane engines on aircraft is largely a myth according to C. Francis Jenkins, Washington, D.C., inventor who has designed a radio receiving set which he does not pick up noises from a flying power plant. In this photograph is shown Mr. Jenkins (right) and his laboratory assistant

Washington inventor says ignition interference from airplane engines i...

A couple of men standing next to an airplane, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. On sleeve: Watch Your Credit Line. Gift; Harris ... More

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine is torn down after it has gone through a grueling test in a Midwest plant. Each of the disassembled parts will be carefully inspected before the engine is reassembled and subjected to a final checkup. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine is torn down after it...

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

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Once vital to automobile production, these dust pipes, ventilators of spray booths and other relics of pre-war days are relegated to the dump heap, useless now that the plant is one hundred percent converted to production of airplane motors. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Once vital to automobile producti...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With one hundred percent conversion of this automobile factory to production of airplane engines, the gigantic task of remodelling old machinery, removal of old and installation of new equipment, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself was formidable--but speedy. Under terms of its contract, production was not scheduled until October, but Herulean efforts of management and labor reduced this to early spring of this year. Carloads of scrap material torn out of the plant are shown here at a siding back of the factory. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With one hundred percent conversi...

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

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines on the test block at a Midwest plant. After tests are completed, the engine will be torn down for minute inspection of all parts. It will then be reassembled and again tested before shipment to an airplane factory. Continental Motors, Muskegon

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines on the test block at a ...

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YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. There isn't much these sodlier-mechanics don't know about big airplane engines. Non-coms of a bombardment squadron at Langley Field, Virginia install a ring cowling around one of the four powerful engines of a YB-17 bomber

YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. There isn't much ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

Production. Aircraft engines. Ready for inspection, this line-up of cylinder barrels for airplane engines makes a formidable display. Engines for America's Victory bombers are manufactured in this enormous Midwest plant. Melrose Park, Buick plant

Production. Aircraft engines. Ready for inspection, this line-up of cy...

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 availabl... More

Berlin Bender in test room for airplane engines, Bu. of Stds., 2326

Berlin Bender in test room for airplane engines, Bu. of Stds., 2326

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available ... More

Production. Airplane engines. All the parts of an airplane engine, which has just undergone severe tests in a Midwest plant, are spread out for minute inspection. After the checkup, the engine will be reassembled and sent on for final inspection. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. All the parts of an airplane engine, whi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine is torn down after it has gone through a grueling test in a Midwest plant. Each of the disassembled parts will be carefully inspected before the engine is reassembled and subjected to a final checkup. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine is torn down after it...

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

Production. Airplane engines. Reassembly of an airplane engine after subjection to rigid tests and minute examination of all parts in a Midwest plant. The reassembled engine will again be carefully tested and inspected before shipment to an airplane factory. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. Reassembly of an airplane engine after s...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Production. Airplane engines. Reassembly of an airplane engine after subjection to rigid tests and minute examination of all parts in a Midwest plant. The reassembled engine will again be carefully tested and inspected before shipment to an airplane factory. Continental Motors, Michigan

Production. Airplane engines. Reassembly of an airplane engine after s...

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Auto conversion to airplane engines. "We'll be turning out as many airplane engines as Carter does pills," employees of a converted automobile factory told OEM (Office of Emergency Management) photographer. Now undergoing one hundred percent conversion to airplane motor production, this factory employs thousands of workers who are familiarizing themselves with the newly installed tools and machines. A worker here operates a vertical Bullard turtle lathe, machining part of the aluminum crank case of a fourteen-cylinder airplane engine. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. "We'll be turning out as many air...

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

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines assembled for testing in a Midwest plant. After the tests have been run, the engines will be torn down and all parts minutely inspected. After reassembly and another series of tests, the engines will be shipped to airplane factories. Continental Motors, Muskegon,

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines assembled for testing i...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Naval air base Corpus Christi, Texas. A top-notch mechanic, Mary Josephine Farley, expertly rebuilds airplane engines. Although she's only twenty-years-old, she has a private pilot's license and has made several cross-country flights. She ranked highest of all competitors on her civil service examination with a grade of 89. Since her arrival at the Corpus Christi Air Base four and one-half months ago, she has been made a crew leader

Naval air base Corpus Christi, Texas. A top-notch mechanic, Mary Josep...

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

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines on the test block at a Midwest plant. After tests are completed, the engine will be torn down for minute inspection of all parts. It will then be reassembled and again tested before shipment to an airplane factory. Continental Motors, Muskegon

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines on the test block at a ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines assembled for testing in a Midwest plant. After the tests have been run, the engines will be torn down and all parts minutely inspected. After reassembly and another series of tests, the engines will be shipped to airplane factories. Continental Motors, Muskegon

Production. Airplane engines. Airplane engines assembled for testing i...

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