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Oil burners to machine gun parts. Using a micrometer to check this small part for an army machine gun, this worker must achieve tolerance not greater than 110,000 of an inch. This upper New York state factory, which formerly produced oil burners, is under contract for 75,000 small precision parts for the Army. Its employees are super-skilled workmen, many of whom have been with the firm for decades. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Using a micrometer to check this sma...

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

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Machining of a fixture to be used on milling machines which have been converted from production of oil burners to the manufacture of small precision parts for machine guns. Location: a factory in upper New York State. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Machining of a fixture to be used on...

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

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Oil burners are the normal product of this Eastern factory now undergoing conversion to production of small precision parts for machine guns. This milling machine has not yet been converted to the war effort and is still turning out parts for burners. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Oil burners are the normal product o...

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

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. This is the blast division of city fireman J.L. Clayton's three-man foundry at Daytona Beach, Florida. It is turning out precision parts for experimental bombers. In the foreground is the blast furnace, in the background the junk heap of brass and aluminum scrap from which come the metals to charge the crucible. Arthur Brown, Negro helper, used to work in an orange grove until Clayton taught him how to handle molten metals

DeLand pool. Improvised foundry, Daytona Beach. This is the blast divi...

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Oil burners to machine gun parts. Oil burners are the normal product of this Eastern factory now undergoing conversion to production of small precision parts for machine guns. This milling machine has not yet been converted to the war effort and is still turning out parts for burners. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Oil burners are the normal product o...

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

Antiaircraft gun carriage. This master machinist lays out the precision parts that go to make up a thirty-seven millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriage. Swift flying planes present a difficult target, the anti-aircraft gun must be a precision instrument. 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. This master machinist lays out the precisio...

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

Oil burners to machine gun parts. With conversion of a New York State oil-burner plant to production of precision parts for machine guns, additional equipment and manpower were mandatory. Unable to purchase sufficient new machines, these two used to hand operated milling machines were installed. The young worker was recruited from a defense vocational training school. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. With conversion of a New York State ...

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.

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Using a micrometer to check this small part for an army machine gun, this worker must achieve tolerance not greater than 1/10,000 of an inch. This upper New York state factory, which formerly produced oil burners, is under contract for 75,000 small precision parts for the Army. Its employees are super-skilled workmen, many of whom have been with the firm for decades. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Using a micrometer to check this sma...

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

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. Nothing makes W.E. Mansfield so mad as the idea that Florida shops cannot do fine precision work. He should know, for he's doing it in a member shop of the De Land pool. He worked on weapons and ammunition for the Winchester Arms Company for twenty years and thought he was retiring when he came to Florida. Now seventy-one, he's turning out delicate precision parts for essential war equipment

De Land pool. Carr's Machine Shop. Nothing makes W.E. Mansfield so mad...

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

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Oil burners are the normal product of this Eastern factory now undergoing conversion to production of small precision parts for machine guns. This machine has been converted to production of gun parts. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Oil burners are the normal product o...

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

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Fixture which holds bare of raw materials from which small pieces, cut to size, are obtained for production of precision parts for Uncle Sam's machine gun squads. Site of these operations is an Eastern factory which has been converted from manufacture of oil burners to production of war essentials. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Fixture which holds bare of raw mate...

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

Antiaircraft gun carriage. This master machinist lays out the precision parts that go to make up a thirty-seven millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriage. Swift flying planes present a difficult target, the anti-aircraft gun must be a precision instrument. 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. This master machinist lays out the precisi...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Fixture which holds bare of raw materials from which small pieces, cut to size, are obtained for production of precision parts for Uncle Sam's machine gun squads. Site of these operations is an Eastern factory which has been converted from manufacture of oil burners to production of war essentials. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Fixture which holds bare of raw mate...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.