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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. Above is a completed shell ejector getting its final testing. The brass bottom of a navy shell is applied on the testing stand, with the spring mechanism which actually ejects the shell getting the primary test. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

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

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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Now converted to production of war essentials, this Eastern plant once manufactured such civilian items as this soft drink dispenser, the precision mechanism of which is undergoing inspection by a designer. It was this type of high grade precision workmanship which enabled the company to obtain specialized precision contracts and subcontracts from the government. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Now converted to production of...

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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. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Midwest machine shop used to manufacture doll's furniture and fly swatters before Pearl Harbor. Today, busy with subcontracts on war production orders, they're hurrying the last lengths of swatter-wire off the machines. Circular machines at right cuts and twists the lengths of wire. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Mid...

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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Peacetime products of an Eastern manufacturing firm which now produces dies for democracy. Operating under prime and subcontracts, this firm makes precision tools, brass quadrants, etc. for Uncle Sam's armed forces. No more soft drink dispensers, orange juicers and game boards will be manufactured here until there's no more Axis. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Peacetime products of an Easte...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war effort is Phineas Davenport Allen, seventy-eight-year-old mechanic who worked on steering riggings for submarines during World War I. Today he is employed by a New England company, whose normal peacetime product is cube steak machinery. The drill press he operates was a valuable part of the company's peacetime equipment, is even more valuable today in the speeding of work on war subcontracts. Here Allen is drilling bearing caps for cube steak machines. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war eff...

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Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Midwest machine shop used to manufacture doll's furniture and fly swatters before Pearl Harbor. Subcontracts on defense orders now occupy all machines as rapidly as the old stock can be assembled. Here two high school boys complete machine work on metal legs for the furniture. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Mid...

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Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission being inspected at the first OPM (Office of Personnel Management) permanent exhibit at which samples of needed defense equipment and parts are shown to prospective producers. The exhibit opened on Tuesday, December 23 in the Boatman's Bank Building in St. Louis, Missouri. Bits and pieces of needed war goods were exhibited by fourty-eight holders of large war contracts and by the Army, the Navy, and the U.S. Maritime Commission. It is planned to change the articles displayed in this exhibit as some of them become under contracts or subcontracts. Representatives of the Contract Distribution Division will be available regularly to advise manufacturers attending the exhibits. Similar exhibits are scheduled to open shortly in other cities throughout the country

Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission bein...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of hours to change this block adapter from its former work, on the production of cube steak machinery to spout cutting for war subcontracts. Cube Steak Machinery Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of ...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war effort is Phineas Davenport Allen, seventy-eight-year-old mechanic who worked on steering riggings for submarines during World War I. Today he is employed by a New England company, whose normal peacetime product is cube steak machinery. The drill press he operates was a valuable part of the company's peacetime equipment, is even more valuable today in the speeding of work on war subcontracts. New tooling and a large drill have fitted this press for the drilling of screw machine parts needed in new machine tools for war production. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. Back to aid in his country's war eff...

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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...

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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands and this machine 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. While a plant officer looks on, machinist Arthur Greaces operates a Bickford vertical boring machine formerly used in the production of merry-go-rounds, now used for war work. He is machining a sheaf ordered as part of a sub-contract on maritime work. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands and this machine used to...

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Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission being inspected at the first OPM (Office of Production Management) permanent exhibit at which samples of needed defense equipment and parts are shown to prospective producers. The exhibit opened on Tuesday, December 23 in the Boatmen's Bank building in Saint Louis, Missouri. Bits and pieces of needed war goods were exhibited by fourty-eight holders of large war contracts and by the Army, Navy and the U.S. Maritime Commission. It is planned to change the articles displayed in this exhibit as some of them become placed under contracts and subcontracts. Representatives of the Contract Distribution Division will be available regularly to advise manufacturers attending the exhibit. Similar routine exhibits are scheduled to open shortly in other cities throughout the country

Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission bein...

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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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Conversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of hours to change this block adapter from its former work, on the production of cube steak machinery, to spout cutting for war subcontracts. Cube Steak Machinery Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of ...

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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. The president of an Eastern manufacturing company now producing war essentials on prime and subcontracts, checks a contour gauge manufactured for Army arsenals. Gauges for measuring cartridges and other war materials must be accurate to the 2/10,000 of an inch to meet ordnance specifications. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. The president of an Eastern ma...

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Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Formerly producing floor waxing and polishing machines, this small Eastern factory is now one of the America's myriad plants devoted to production of small machine parts for war purposes. Foreseeing possibilities of shortage of aluminum (necessary for polishing equipment), this factory's owner sought defense subcontracts many months ago, he is now operating twenty-two hours a day with a crew of thirty workers, a distinct improvement over his previous eight hours, three-worker days. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania

Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Formerly producing floor waxing and pol...

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Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Midwest machine shop used to manufacture doll's furniture and fly swatters before Pearl Harbor. Subcontracts on defense orders now occupy all machines as rapidly as the old stock can be assembled. Here two high school boys complete machine work on metal legs for the furniture. Sivon Machine Company, Painesville, Ohio

Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This small Mid...

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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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Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands and this machine 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. This drill press, operated by machinist Mathew Kipa, has been to face milling operations on landing gear housings for airplanes. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands and this machine used to...

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Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. The vice-president of an Eastern manufacturing company now producing war essentials on prime and subcontracts, tests the hardness of steel in a chamber gauge, essential for the manufacture of small arms ammunition. These gauges are made of special alloys tougher and harder than the toughest and hardest steel. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. The vice-president of an Easte...

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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. Joe Wiegand is the machinist shown above, turning a rod for a shell extractor for a six-inch forty-seven-caliber naval gun. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

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

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Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. From egg poachers and frying pans to caps, struts, flap hinges and other small parts for America's air force; from a dozen employees to forty; that's the story of this small Eastern factory whose defense subcontracts have enabled it to convert rapidly from civilian to war production

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. From egg poachers and fryin...

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Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. The Howe Machinery Company of Passaic, New Jersey recently added a second floor to its shop building to handle increased war production. This concern has worked out a very practical plan of pooling subcontracts with a number of home workshops it assisted in equipping

Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. The Howe Machinery Company...

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Conversion. Food machinery plant. In the background is a cube steak machine, normal product of a New England plant now doing work on various war subcontracts. In the foreground are twenty-four items typical of those this plant has been doing to turn out for the war effort after certain retooling and conversion work had been done on its machinery. These changes are necessarily simple, for this company is still filling army and navy orders for the cube steak machine. Including among the twenty-four items are aluminum crankcases, steel spouts for anti-tank guns, bronze flanges, nuts and various screw machine parts. Cube Steak Machines Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. In the background is a cube steak ma...

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Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission being inspected at the first OPM (Office of Production Management) permanent exhibit at which samples of needed defense equipment and parts are shown to prospective producers. The exhibit opened on Tuesday, December 23 in the Boatmen's Bank building in Saint Louis, Missouri. Bits and pieces of needed war goods were exhibited by fourty-eight holders of large war contracts and by the Army, Navy and the U.S. Maritime Commission. It is planned to change the articles displayed in this exhibit as some of them become placed under contracts and subcontracts. Representatives of the Contract Distribution Division will be available regularly to advise manufacturers attending the exhibit. Similar routine exhibits are scheduled to open shortly in other cities throughout the country

Bits and pieces display. Parts needed by U.S. Maritime Commission bein...

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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 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. It was a matter of only a couple of hours to change this block adapter from its former work on the production of cube steak machinery to spout cutting for war subcontracts. Cube Steak Machine Company, Boston, Massachusetts

Conversion. Food machinery plant. It was a matter of only a couple of ...

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