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In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities are being used to train personnel for the U.S. Navy. Here naval cadets are being instructed in lathe operation by the skilled instructor- mechanics

In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities...

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Dunklin County, Missouri. Farm boy using a lathe operated by U.S. Rural Electrification Administration (REA) power

Dunklin County, Missouri. Farm boy using a lathe operated by U.S. Rura...

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De Land pool. Bits and parts. With a "know-how" skill developed in thirty-two years experience as a machinist, Fred W. Casey, sub-contractor in the De Land, Florida pool, bends over a heavy lathe as it machines a part for the nation's war machine. Fifty-two-year-old Casey, like many machinists who retired to Florida, chuckles at the idea that machinists in the deep South cannot work to close tolerances

De Land pool. Bits and parts. With a "know-how" skill developed in thi...

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.

Conversion. Animal traps to armor-piercing bullet cores. Armor-piercing bullet cores being gauged at the lathe on which they were produced in a converted Eastern animal trap plant. The lathe was secured second hand in Wisconsin, where it made machine bolts and spark plug parts

Conversion. Animal traps to armor-piercing bullet cores. Armor-piercin...

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.

Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. Carell supervising the set-up of a lathe with turret attachment in the basement of his home where he does subcontracting on war work. His day shift consists of the expert mechanics

Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. Carell supervising the se...

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Workman finishing setting for quartz crystal cutting tool on W & S lathe

Workman finishing setting for quartz crystal cutting tool on W & S lat...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. The capable hands of this craftsman belie the adage that an old dog cannot learn new tricks. For years those hands have carved most of the horses that appear on American carrousels. For the duration they're operating this lathe and machining landing gear housings for the dread Airacobra pursuit ship. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. The capable hands of this craftsman ...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee operates a turret lathe under close supervision of a skilled machinist in a modern machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. This plant produces the battle-tested ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. A woman employee operates a...

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Turning out guns. Turning out guns on a modern automatic lathe. This machine is shaping the outside of a gun barrel for the war program

Turning out guns. Turning out guns on a modern automatic lathe. This m...

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

Turning on a hand lathe the outside surface of a partially-dried blank for a medical department coffee cup. Shenango Pottery Works, Newcastle, Pennsylvania

Turning on a hand lathe the outside surface of a partially-dried blank...

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Production. Blood transfusion bottles. In a small plant operating under subcontract, O. Trumbull Scalbom and S.B. Nicholson of Glenview, Illinois, play a vital part in American production. The two men operate a Harding-Bench turret lathe which drills and reams holes in valve stems for blood transfusion bottles prepared by the prime contractor, Baxter Laboratories in Glenview, Illinois

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. In a small plant operating unde...

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High school Victory Corps. Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, California, teaches its students trades which fit them to help in the war program. This Chinese student is learning to operate a lathe

High school Victory Corps. Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tanks guns such as those shown in the foreground is the present work of this lathe, formerly used in the production of cube steak machines in a New England plant which is now turning out a number of parts for war machinery on subcontract. Conversion of this machine, and the stepping up of its speed required only a few hours. The operator, Ralph Hutchings, has also turned his skill to war work. He formerly operated a lathe in the production of cube steak machinery. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tanks gun...

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Skilled machinists are vital to the war production program. Here a woman employee operates a turret lathe under the close supervision of a skilled machinist in North American's modern machine shop

Skilled machinists are vital to the war production program. Here a wom...

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Orange, Texas. Woman learning how to operate a lathe at a training school for war workers

Orange, Texas. Woman learning how to operate a lathe at a training sch...

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Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). A large sixty-inch lathe at the Braden and Van Fossen Works is employed to smooth down pedestals for ships' dining tables. The lathe was recently acquired and refitted to do extra large jobs. Also at the Van Fossen Works, holes are drilled in the pedestal bases for fastening the pedestals to the floor, or deck

Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). A large sixty-inch lathe...

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Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). A large sixty-inch lathe at the Braden and Van Fossen Works is employed to smooth down pedestals for ships' dining tables. The lathe was recently acquired and refitted to do extra large jobs. Also at the Van Fossen Works, holes are drilled in the pedestal bases for fastening the pedestals to the floor, or deck

Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). A large sixty-inch lathe...

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

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

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.

Automatic machines. Automatic machines have time and labor in the war program. This modern copying lathe takes a rough rifle stock and turns it to its final shape

Automatic machines. Automatic machines have time and labor in the war ...

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.

Buffalo, New York. Cecelia Wrazen, who works at the Ross Heater plant, is engaged to a precision lathe operator in the same plant. Fellow workers presenting Cecelia with a wedding gift

Buffalo, New York. Cecelia Wrazen, who works at the Ross Heater plant,...

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Machinist working at lathe. Seminole, Oklahoma, oil refinery

Machinist working at lathe. Seminole, Oklahoma, oil refinery

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

A standard turret lathe being used for boring operations on seventy-five millimeter pack howitzers at the Erie, Pennsylvania, General Electric plant. A set-up for finish reaming the bore and roughing and finishing the powder chamber is shown with seven tubes in the foreground. These howitzers are being produced largely on machinery formerly used for making streetcar motors

A standard turret lathe being used for boring operations on seventy-fi...

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In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities are being used to train personnel for the U.S. Navy. Here a naval cadet is setting up on a job on a lathe under the skilled supervision of a master mechanic

In the tool and die building at the River Rouge plant, vast facilities...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indian industry by lend-lease. A new hydraulic lathe, made available to Indian industry by lend-lease, is hauled by Bangali laborers into a munitions factory in India, where skilled native workmen will take over. This piece of equipment will increase the factory's output by two cannons monthly

Indian industry by lend-lease. A new hydraulic lathe, made available t...

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Production. Minesweepers. A veteran of the last world war operates a lathe that turns out tail shafts for minesweepers under construction in an Eastern shipyard. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. A veteran of the last world war operates a l...

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Machine for making torpedoes. Complicated operation of a turret lathe is this man's specialty. Location: a large eastern Navy arsenal

Machine for making torpedoes. Complicated operation of a turret lathe ...

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Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

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Conversion. Automobile industry. Directly contributing to victory, these tow automobile workers are starting conversion of a lathe so that it can accomodate tank parts. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Conversion. Automobile industry. Directly contributing to victory, the...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The sugar shortage brought this worker back to the lathe. Employed now by a small Eastern manufacturing firm which used to make floor waxers but is now completely converted to war production, this worker had only a trade school course in mechanics taken fifteen years ago as background for his new job. He operated his own confectionery business until the sugar shortage forced him into a new field. But he's glad to be aiming gun-sight parts at the Axis. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. The sugar shortage brought this worker ...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns is the present work of this lathe, shown here at its former job-shaping wooden rollers used with a belt control to carry steaks into the cube steak machine which is this New England plant's normal production. Conversion of this lathe, and the stepping up of its speed, has turned his skill from peacetime work to war production. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns...

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.

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, worker, factory, industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A skilled machinist on a turret lathe in North America's machine shop tests the accuracy of his work with a micrometer

A skilled machinist on a turret lathe in North America's machine shop ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a machine, worker, factory, industrial equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cecelia Wrazen, who works at the Ross Heater plant, is engaged to a precision lathe operator in the same plant. Fellow workers presenting Cecelia with a wedding gift

Cecelia Wrazen, who works at the Ross Heater plant, is engaged to a pr...

Public domain photograph of New York in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Women handling lathe in a factory in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Women handling lathe in a factory in the USSR (Union of Soviet Sociali...

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Frankford Arsenal. Turning shell parts on a turret lathe

Frankford Arsenal. Turning shell parts on a turret lathe

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Pre-fabricated sheets of asbestos reinforced with gypsum serve as an economical base for plaster walls and ceilings. These sheets, nailed directly to studs, also afford protection against heat and cold. A crew of fourteen men (ten lathers and four laborers) can lathe a four-unit building in a few hours. A crew of plasters moves in as the crew of lathers moves out. Although defense homes are speedily built, they are soundly constructed. Government inspectors keep a rigid check to see that all construction materials live up to government standards

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Pre-fabricated sheets of asbestos...

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Production. 155mm shells. Finish turning of the straight diameter and profile of a 155mm shell on a Stamets lathe in a converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Finish turning of the straight diameter and ...

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Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Lillian Goritschnig with two sons in the service, one overseas, and a husband ready to go into the service, inspecting the inside of a 105 mm. howitzer on a lathe at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant of Chain Belt Company, with microbrand and also shot-changing the honing stone for finished inside operation of 105 mm. howitzers

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Lillian Goritschnig with two sons in th...

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

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Using a lathe converted from manufacture of egg poachers, frying pans and radio parts, this employee of a small Eastern plant is milling an aluminum alloy flap hinge forging to be used on American fighting planes. Precision Metal Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Using a lathe converted fro...

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Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Adolph Pranewicz of Milwaukee, who has a son in the Marines, checking off rough material with a gauge after the first turning on a lathe of a 105 mm. howitzer at the plant of Chain Belt Company, Milwauke, Wisconsin

Production. 105 mm. howitzers. Adolph Pranewicz of Milwaukee, who has ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an artillery gun, cannon, weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainee being trained to use a lathe in preparation for a job in industry. She is under twenty, works eight hours a day and gets paid forty dollars a month during training

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) t...

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Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Pre-fabricated sheets of asbestos reinforced with gypsum serve as an economical base for plaster walls and ceilings. These sheets, nailed directly to studs, also afford protection against heat and cold. A crew of fourteen men (ten lathers and four laborers) can lathe a four-unit building in a few hours. A crew of plasters moves in as the crew of lathers moves out.

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Pre-fabricated sheets of asbestos...

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Man working on a lathe which is shaping precision instruments

Man working on a lathe which is shaping precision instruments

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Production. 155mm shells. The first rough turn on a 155mm shell forging is done on a Curtis lathe in a converted auto plant. In this operation, the forging is cut to length and the base end is faced. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. The first rough turn on a 155mm shell forgin...

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Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. One of Carell's workmen at a lathe in this basement war workshop. The lathe has a tailstock turret attachment which holds several tools so that one operation can follow another in quick succession, as in the factory production

Conversion. From garage to defense workshop. One of Carell's workmen a...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. This is a specially designed chuck for a newly acquired second-hand turret lathe, which this Eastern cube steak machinery plant recently bought from a nearby shoe factory in order to speed work on new defense subcontracts. Here it holds a three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nut, which has just been threaded by the tap seen in the background. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This is a specially designed chuck f...

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Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman measuring part of a locomotive wheel with calipers. She operates the lathe on which it is being finished at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman measuring part of a locomotiv...

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.

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainee being trained to use a lathe in preparation for a job in industry. She is under twenty, works eight hours a day and gets paid forty dollars a month during training

Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) t...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased second-hand from a nearby shoe factory to speed production on war subcontracts held by a New England plant which formerly turned out cube steak machinery. Edwin Becker is checking on a retooling job in progress which will eventually fit the new lathe to thread three-and-a-quarter-inch hexagonal nuts. Becker is checking the measurements of the tool hole in the turret with those of the specially-built tap which will do the threading. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. This turret lathe was purchased seco...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns is the present work of this lathe, shown here at its former job-shaping wooden rollers used with a belt control to carry steaks into the cube steak machine which is this New England plant's normal production. Conversion of this lathe, and the stepping up of its speed, has turned his skill from peacetime work to war production. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns...

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

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A production lathe in a former auto plant and an experienced automobile worker team up to give our air force the greatest possible number of the finest possible machine guns. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. A production lathe in a for...

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Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman operating a lathe which finishes part of the locomotive wheel at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman operating a lathe which finis...

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.

Clarence Haseldon turning lathe to make table leg in shop class. Ashwood Plantations school, South Carolina

Clarence Haseldon turning lathe to make table leg in shop class. Ashwo...

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Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. The machine of bronze rings gears for the production of Bofors forty-millimeter anti-aircraft guns mounts and carriages at a large Midwest rubber factory involves skilled precision operations. Here an expert workman is making the final cut on a vertical turret lathe. When this operation is complete, the bronze ring will be moved to the gear for the concluding operation

Bofors forty-millimeter mounts. The machine of bronze rings gears for ...

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

Conversion. Safe and lock company. He ran a lathe in '17, and he's running one for Uncle Sam again. Harry Melhorn is one of America's soldiers on the second line of defense; he's producing thirty-seven-millimeter guns in a factory which formerly made safes and locks. York Safe and Lock Company, York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Safe and lock company. He ran a lathe in '17, and he's run...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Beulah Faith, former sales lady, is now a lathe operator at a Western aircraft plant. She is reaming tubes used in making the huge consolidated transports and bombers. These new transport, adapted from the famous the B-24 bomber is known as the C-87, and carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production.

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Beulah Faith, former sal...

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"Me and the old gent." This two-man plant operated at Bay City, Michigan by Jake Sparling, sixty-year-old ex-lumberjack who saw his first lathe a year and a half ago, was named by Donald Nelson to head the list of 1,300 plants enrolled in the war production drive. "The old gent and myself," says Sparling, "work fifteen hours a day, seven days a week," and produced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in eighteen months. The money will buy war bonds and stamps

"Me and the old gent." This two-man plant operated at Bay City, Michig...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe used formerly in the manufacture of merry-go-rounds. This machine, along with others in this New York state plant is now turning out bits and pieces for our war program. The worker is machinist Fred Luther, whose skill was formerly used to amuse children, is now aiding in the job of protecting children and assuring them a life in which amusement will be as much a part as before the rise of a fascism. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe use...

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Production. Ship propellers, etc. A huge ship propeller shaft is gauged on the lathe of a large war production plant. Tanks and locomotives are turned out in other parts of the plant. Baldwin Locomotive Works

Production. Ship propellers, etc. A huge ship propeller shaft is gauge...

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Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. George Turner, a gunsmith as well as a cattleman, working a gun barrel on an electric lathe. He is adjusting a telescopic sight

Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. George Turner, a gunsmith as...

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Hands of lathe worker, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Ansel Adams.

Hands of lathe worker, Manzanar Relocation Center / photograph by Anse...

Close-up view of lathe worker's hands. Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print. Original neg. no.: LC-A35-5-M-35. Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968. Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Cente... More

Machinist working at lathe. Seminole, Oklahoma, oil refinery

Machinist working at lathe. Seminole, Oklahoma, oil refinery

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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

Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). Plant conversion means machine conver...

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Shenandoah Valley. Wilbarger and his men line up behind the 24-inch lathe

Shenandoah Valley. Wilbarger and his men line up behind the 24-inch la...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. This woman employee operates a turret lathe in the machine shop at the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. She handles the machine as skillfully as a man. This plant produces the battle-tested ("Billy Mitchell") bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane, which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. Airplane manufacture, general. This woman employee operate...

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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. These machines are working for Uncle Sam instead of manufacturing such civilian items as soft drink dispensers and game boards. Inspecting operation of a tool room lathe are officials of this company which is producing tools for cartridge manufacture, brass quadrants and other war essentials. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. These machines are working for...

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.

Flyweight calling for four inch capacity semi-automatic turret lathe, internal thread grinder, internal grinder, cylindrical grinder, and lapping and heat treating facilities

Flyweight calling for four inch capacity semi-automatic turret lathe, ...

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Antiaircraft gun carriage. A leveling socket for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is machined in a turret lathe. The leveling assembly permits the gun to be kept on an even keel on all types of terrain. War program production scene in one of Pennsylvania's heavy industry plants now converted to the production of vitally needed military equipment. AETNA. Ellwood CIty, Pennsylvania

Antiaircraft gun carriage. A leveling socket for a thirty-seven millim...

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A New Britain-Gridley lathe is worked by an experienced operator at a Midwestern company. The machine which formerly made spur gears, worm wheels and commentator rings has been converted to war use by being tooled with an eccentric spindle and thread rolling attachment for the production of twenty-millimeter shell boosters

A New Britain-Gridley lathe is worked by an experienced operator at a ...

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Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. The woodcarving skill of those capable hands has delighted thousands of children riding the horses of merry-go-rounds. Their skill has now been diverted for the duration to lathe work on landing gear housings for the deadly Airacobra. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. The woodcarving skill of those capab...

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Production. Minesweepers. A veteran of the last world war operates a lathe that turns out tail shafts for minesweepers under construction in an Eastern shipyard. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. A veteran of the last world war operates a l...

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Lititz, Pennsylvania. Raymond Newswanger works a lathe in the Animal Trap Company machine shop. He's a Mennonite, about thirty, and hopes his church won't find out he's doing defense work. Most Mennonites are farmers, and Newswanger used to be

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Raymond Newswanger works a lathe in the Animal T...

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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 on subcontracts from army and navy contractors. These skilled hands belong to sixty-five-year-old Herman Jagow, whose wood carving skill delighted thousands of children riding the horses of merry-go-rounds. Here he is doing lathe work in landing gear housing. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

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

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. An Indian workmen turns out fuse parts on an automatic lathe supplied under lend-lease

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. An Indian workmen...

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From National Youth Administration to Washington navy yard. Under the direction of Cicil M. Coles, NYA foreman, Miss Juanita E. Gray learns to operate a lathe machine at the Washington, D.C. National Youth Adminstration War Production and Training Center. This former domestic worker is one of the hundreds of Negro women trained at this center

From National Youth Administration to Washington navy yard. Under the ...

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A New York City manufacturer wishes to locate turret lathe, drill press, and arbor press facilities for the manufacture of a five-inch assembly housing

A New York City manufacturer wishes to locate turret lathe, drill pres...

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Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Lathe parts are explained to students in the trade school of the Howe Machinery Company, Passaic, New Jersey. The school trains fifty workers at a time in the production of essential war equipment. More than ninety percent secure jobs after training, some in the Howe shop

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Lathe parts are explained ...

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Production. Minesweepers. David L. Zimbough, age seventy, came out of retirement to operate a lathe to make parts for sweepers in an Eastern shipyard. He returned his last social security check, declaring that the money he made helping win the war was enough for him. Gibbs Cass Company

Production. Minesweepers. David L. Zimbough, age seventy, came out of ...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns is the present work of this lathe, shown here at its former job--shaping of wooden rollers used with a belt control to carry steaks into the cube steak machine which is this New England plant's normal product. Conversion of this lathe, and the stepping up of its speed, has turned his skill from peacetime work to war production. Cube Steak Machinery Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tank guns...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Grace Janota, former store clerk, is now a lathe operator at a Western aircraft plant. She machines parts for huge consolidated transports and bombers. These new consolidated transports, adapted from the famous the B-24 bomber is known as the C-87, and carries one of the greatest human or cargo loads of any plane now in mass production.

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Grace Janota, former sto...

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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. 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...

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Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

Detroit, Michigan. Lathe operator at the Allison Motors plant

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Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. They have gone all-out for the Program of Civilian Defense, and Phelps Vocational School has become an important training center for workers in war plants. Photo shows young women operating a lathe in the machine shop at this school

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington,...

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Buffalo, New York. Woman operating an axle lathe at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of wheels and axles for the railroads. The company never employed women until recently

Buffalo, New York. Woman operating an axle lathe at the New York Car W...

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Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman moving a locomotive wheel part on a small crane to be finished on the lathe which she operates at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Polish-American woman moving a locomotive wheel par...

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United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian coolies pull a newly-arrived lend-lease lathe into a munitions factory in India. This machine alone will add at least two more cannons monthly to the already greatly increased output of the plant

United States "lend-lease" program in eastern India. Indian coolies pu...

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers making M5 and M7 guns for the U.S. Army. Ex-stage orchestra musician, checking a M7 gun with gage, after turning out on a gun lathe. Her two brothers and husband are in the armed service

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. War production workers making M5 and M7 guns for...

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Buffalo, New York. Bronislaus Nowak, precision lathe operator, is engaged to Cecelia Wrazen. Both work at Ross Heater, makers of condensers for the Navy. He is temporarily deferred from the Army because of his essential work. They are of Polish descent

Buffalo, New York. Bronislaus Nowak, precision lathe operator, is enga...

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Vast facilities are being used to trin personnel for the U.S. Navy. Here trainees are being instructed in lathe operation by skilled instructor-mechanics. Note Navy machinists at upper left. Ford River Rouge plant, tool and die building

Vast facilities are being used to trin personnel for the U.S. Navy. He...

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Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). Plant conversion means machine conversion. This lathe at the Beery and Sons shop in Harrisonburg, Virginia, is being fitted for production of a small part needed by a war contractor. To the left of the lathe are some of the hurriedly constructed jigs and chucks turned out at the shop to speed delivery of various bits and pieces, often cutting the schedule as high as ninety-percent

Subcontracting (Beery and Sons). Plant conversion means machine conver...

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Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). A large sixty-inch lathe at the Braden and Van Fossen Works is employed to smooth down pedestals for ships' dining tables. The lathe was recently acquired and refitted to do extra large jobs. Also at the Van Fossen Works, holes are drilled in the pedestal bases for fastening the pedestals to the floor, or deck

Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). A large sixty-inch lathe...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Grace Janota, former department store clerk, was trained as a lathe operator by Rudolph Dolkas, who deserted the Austrian Army as a sergeant in 1913 and came to this country. He worked on the production of military equipment in World War I. He instructs women workers in a Western plant in the various tasks necessary to the production of Consolidated B-24 bombers and transports

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Grace Janota, former dep...

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Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Machinist at a lathe in machine shop

Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Machinist at a lathe i...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tanks guns such as those shown in the foreground is the present work of this lathe, formerly used in the production of cube steak machines in a New England plant which is now turning out a number of parts for war machinery on subcontract. Conversion of this machine, and the stepping up of its speed required only a few hours. The operator, Ralph Hutchings, has also turned his skill to war work. He formerly operated a lathe in the production of cube steak machinery. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Cutting of spouts for anti-tanks gun...

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Production. 105 mm. howitzer. Turning a 105 mm. howitzer on a lathe at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant of Chain Belt Company

Production. 105 mm. howitzer. Turning a 105 mm. howitzer on a lathe at...

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Production. 155mm shells. Boring the burster tube recess of 155mm shell on a Denver lathe in a converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio

Production. 155mm shells. Boring the burster tube recess of 155mm shel...

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Conversion. Animal traps to armor-piercing bullet cores. Armor-piercing bullet cores being gauged at the lathe on which they were produced in a converted Eastern animal trap plant. The lathe was secured second hand in Wisconsin, where it made machine bolts and spark plug parts

Conversion. Animal traps to armor-piercing bullet cores. Armor-piercin...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. New styles in feminine fashion are provided by ornaments made of lathe turnings from the metal salvage pile at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. New styles in feminine fashi...

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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...

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