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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

Production. War housing trailers. The floor of a war housing trailer i...

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Production. War housing trailers. Paper replaces steel as material for trailer wheel wells at the Western Trailer Company's plant in Los Angeles. Here, a worker shows a finished wheel well ready for installation. It is made of successive layers of paper impregnated with a hardening solution. The finished wells are covered with an asphaltic preservative paint

Production. War housing trailers. Paper replaces steel as material for...

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