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Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

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Defense housing. The first section of the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) experimental trailer-house is backed up onto its foundation in the mountains of North Carolina. The section is equipped with wheels on the underside, the foundation is equipped with tracks. The wheels are placed on the tracks and half a house rolls into

Defense housing. The first section of the Tennessee Valley Authority's...

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The tracks for Army halftrac cars run over bogie wheels which distribute the load and absorb shock through the springs on which they are mounted. The steel bases for these bogie wheels undergo inspection at a Midwest tire plant engaged in halftrac production. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio

The tracks for Army halftrac cars run over bogie wheels which distribu...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels in the making. This operator of a Southern wagon plant is fitting spokes to the hub assembly with the aid of this machine

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels in the making. This operator of...

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Wood wheels are placed on fighters as they move down the assembly line and onto the flight ramp. When the ships are ready for flight, rubber wheels are attached, and the wood goes back to the assembly line

Wood wheels are placed on fighters as they move down the assembly line...

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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Conservation of rubber by American motorists makes possible these bomber tires, which are being assembled in a large Eastern aircraft plant. These Negro workers are clamping on lock washers to the wheels before final assembly of the landing gear. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Conservation of rubber by Americ...

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Tulsa, Oklahoma. Wheels at the roundhouse at the Frisco railroad

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Wheels at the roundhouse at the Frisco railroad

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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...

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.

Negro farmer and blacksmith shop workman look over much-repaired wagon wheels to see if they can be made usable again. Depew, Oklahoma

Negro farmer and blacksmith shop workman look over much-repaired wagon...

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. General view of part of the plant where scrap iron and steel are converted into many grades of steel alloys. In the foreground are carloads of finished products, while in the middle foreground can be seen piles and cars of scrap coming in to feed the huge furnaces. In the background is the power house which supplies electricity and steam to turn the wheels of this important defense industry, set in the Pennsylvania hills about thirty miles north of Pittsburgh, one of America's most important steel producing centers

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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Village on wheels. A caravan of 50 trailers, on its way to provide temporary housing for defense workers in Wilmington, North Carolina, stops for the night at the Hain's Post Trailer Camp, Washington, D.C.

Village on wheels. A caravan of 50 trailers, on its way to provide tem...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Finished wagon wheel hub assemblies piled in the plant of a Southern wagon builder who is receiving a great demand for his products on account of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Finished wagon wheel hub assemblies piled in...

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Tulsa, Oklahoma. Repairing railroad wheels in a machine shop of the Frisco railroad yards

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Repairing railroad wheels in a machine shop of the Fr...

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Topeka, Kansas. Preparing driver wheels for re-tiring at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad wheel shop

Topeka, Kansas. Preparing driver wheels for re-tiring at the Atchison,...

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Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman rolling wheels ready to be ground. She is a grinder and hooker (one who hooks things onto crane chains) at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman rolling wheels ready to be g...

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

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). A bank of wheels and tires for Dodge Army trucks piled up as they arrive at the plant before the assembling process starts

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). A bank of wheels and tires for Dodge A...

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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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Conversion. Heaters to bogie wheels. How'd it go today with the boys at Bataan? These employees of a Midwest heater company take time out for lunch and the news before resuming work on installing assembly apparatus for M-4 tank bogie wheels in a company warehouse

Conversion. Heaters to bogie wheels. How'd it go today with the boys a...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. An employee checks one of the temporary wooden wheels placed on a P-51 fighter on the North American flight training at the Inglewood, California, plant. Regular rubber tires are installed when the planes are ready for flight tests. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, and the P-51 fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

Production. P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes. An employee checks one of t...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel tire to the wagon wheel assembly in the plant of a Southern wagon company which is experiencing a business boom because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel ti...

Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pittsburgh (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Mine car wheels

Pittsburgh (vicinity), Pennsylvania. Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

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Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman eating her lunch brought from home in the shop at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads. This woman is a combination hooker (one who hooks things onto crane chains) and grinder

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman eating her lunch brought fro...

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San Bernardino, California. A completely overhauled engine being run on the slip track at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad shops. This is done to break the engine in. Note that due to the greased track, the engine is standing still while the wheels are spinning

San Bernardino, California. A completely overhauled engine being run o...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore, Maryland. Spraying paint on bus wheels at the maintenance terminal of the Baltimore Transit Company

Baltimore, Maryland. Spraying paint on bus wheels at the maintenance t...

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. 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...

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

San Bernardino, California. Rolling the driver wheels of an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad engine into place. It has been raised in the air for wheeling

San Bernardino, California. Rolling the driver wheels of an Atchison, ...

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Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for military aircraft is illustrated by this photograph. Tire at bottom is of type used on average medium bomber while small tires at top are for tail wheels of various types. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for milit...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Wheels for wagons. Loading completed wagon wheels and running gear assemblies from a Southern wagon wheel plant which is enjoying boom business these days because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Wheels for wagons. Loading completed wagon w...

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.

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Farm auction. Amish farmers cannot use tractor-drawn equipment on their lands, but can use horse-drawn cultivators providing they do not have rubber wheels

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Farm auction. Amish farmers cannot use...

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War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer with wheels and tires removed is supported solidly and safely on heavy wooden horses. The number of removed tires are carefully recorded. Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles makes large numbers of these homes for war workers

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer with wheels an...

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Production. B-25 bombers. Nose wheels and engines for B-25 bombers ready to go to the assembly lines of a Western aircraft plant. General Doolittle, who flew in a B-25 in the raid on Tokyo, has called the ship the best military plane in existence. With plenty of speed, a 1700-mile cruising range and a ceiling of 25,000 feet, it has performed brilliantly as a medium bomber and as an escort plane. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. Nose wheels and engines for B-25 bombers rea...

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

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A worker at a Southern wagon plant is shown here shaping a steel tire to be fitted on the felly, or outer wooden wheel rim, of the wagon wheel

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A worker at a Southe...

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

Wheels used on railway coaches and cars. Railroad shops at Durango, Colorado

Wheels used on railway coaches and cars. Railroad shops at Durango, Co...

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Chrysler tank arsenal. Building tanks is all right, says this worker, and he even admits it's a mighty important and necessary job, but it can't compare with stopping building tanks and going to work on pie and milk. He's eating his lunch in the midst of a pile of wheels and runners for M-3 tanks at the huge Detroit Chrysler tank arsenal

Chrysler tank arsenal. Building tanks is all right, says this worker, ...

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

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds for Army trucks are piled up in the Dodge Company's Lynch Road plant, in Detroit. Approximately 250 sets are required for each day's production. This makes a tremendous stock covering a huge arsenal at the plant

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Spare wheels and tires by the hundreds...

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Production. Wagon wheels. From the wagon assembly of a Southern wagon plant comes this once familiar vehicle which is being built in great volume these days as a result of the rubber shortage. This worker is giving a farm wagon the final once-over

Production. Wagon wheels. From the wagon assembly of a Southern wagon ...

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. Farm implements to cargo winches. Turning an outside cut on the flange of a cargo winch drum for the Maritime Commission. This machine in the converted plant of a Midwestern farm implement manufacturer was used to turn inside cuts on farm tractor wheels

Conversion. Farm implements to cargo winches. Turning an outside cut o...

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.

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels for America's farmers. Wagon wheel assemblies ready for painting in the plant of a Southern wheel company which is having boom business these days on account of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels for America's farmers. Wagon wh...

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Production. C-47 transport planes. Why civilian tires must be conserved. Casings for the big landing wheels of C-47 transport planes in the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action

Production. C-47 transport planes. Why civilian tires must be conserve...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. The wheels of a switch engine are ready to shunt cars loaded with fiberglass materials onto the main line for movement to vital war industries

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. The wheels of a s...

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Power for the wheels of defense industry. The power house which generates all the steam required in this plant. The heavy wires in the foreground carry current to the electric melting furnaces

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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Huge wooden wheels found in abandoned gold mill at Telluride, Colorado

Huge wooden wheels found in abandoned gold mill at Telluride, Colorado

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Power for the wheels of defense industry. The throbbing heart of this plant where scrap iron and steel are convert into alloy steels for the national defense production program. Heavy wires carry current to the huge electric melting furnaces

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for military aircraft is illustrated by this photograph. Tire at bottom is of type used on average medium bomber while small tires at top are for tail wheels of various types. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for milit...

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Production. M-4 tanks. Mighty M-4 tanks are flowing in a strong, steady stream from the production lines of our arsenal of democracy. These bogie wheels being assembled in an Eastern plant give some idea of the massive construction of our new land battleships

Production. M-4 tanks. Mighty M-4 tanks are flowing in a strong, stead...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels in the making. Spoke and hub assemblies are stocked at a Southern wagon plant for the next operation, the fitting of the felly, or wooden rim

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels in the making. Spoke and hub as...

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Tulsa, Oklahoma. Yard employee inspecting the wheels of an oil tank car

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Yard employee inspecting the wheels of an oil tank ca...

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Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A new Lockheed P-38 pursuit plane takes form on the production line. The wings and the Allison engines are already in place, and the ship now stands on its own wheels. It still requires many detail jobs before completion, but they are done rapidly under a well-ordered plan, and the plane will soon be rolled out for the fitting of propellers

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. A new Lockheed P-38 pursuit ...

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

A new home on wheels (father and son). Yuba County, California

A new home on wheels (father and son). Yuba County, California

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Rubber keeps them flying. This bomber needs thousands of pounds of rubber for the landing wheels and bullet-proof fuel tanks. The flyers and ground crews can do none of the important work entrusted to them unless we keep their planes supplied with the prodigious amounts of rubber they require

Rubber keeps them flying. This bomber needs thousands of pounds of rub...

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Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenridge, Pennsylvania. Power for the wheels of defense industry. The stacks of the power house which generates all the steam required in this plant. The heavy wires in the foreground carry current to the electric furnaces used to convert scrap iron and steel into the many alloys required for national defense production

Steel alloy manufacture. Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, Brackenri...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A wheelwright in a Southern wagon plant operates a machine to insert bolts in the felly, or outer wooden rim of the wheel, prior to the fitting of the metal tire

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. A wheelwright in a S...

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.

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Repairing wheels of an oil tank car

Tulsa, Oklahoma. Repairing wheels of an oil tank car

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Gears to grind the Axis. Giant gears to guide America's fleets around the sees to victory. A workman, dwarfed by the towering wheels, directs the moving of a high speed gear blank to a hooking machine. The surge of the mightiest surf won't faze these titans, whose job it is to speed the day when the Axis will be blasted to the bottom of the ocean

Gears to grind the Axis. Giant gears to guide America's fleets around ...

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Car wheels and general equipment lot at railroad yard in Big Spring, Texas

Car wheels and general equipment lot at railroad yard in Big Spring, T...

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Production. B-25 bombers. Nose wheels for B-25 bombers lined up for inspection at a big Western aircraft plant. General Doolittle, who flew in a B-25, has called this bomber the best militiary plane in existence. Many men and women were quickly trained in this plant for the various operations necessary to the making of a modern bomber. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City

Production. B-25 bombers. Nose wheels for B-25 bombers lined up for in...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel tire to the wagon wheel assembly in the plant of a Southern wagon company which is experiencing a business boom because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel ti...

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

Because of the rubber shortage, many planes roll along assembly lines and onto the flight ramp on wooden wheels

Because of the rubber shortage, many planes roll along assembly lines ...

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

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon running gear in a Southern wagon plant which is receiving a rush of orders these days as a result of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon run...

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San Bernardino, California. Carmen Honesto, cleaning the driver wheels to go on an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad passenger engine which operates between Los Angeles and Kansas City

San Bernardino, California. Carmen Honesto, cleaning the driver wheels...

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Abandoned farm since last fall. Old pair of wheels in foreground. Beltrami Island reforestation project, Minnesota

Abandoned farm since last fall. Old pair of wheels in foreground. Belt...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Defense workers in Detroit assembling the transfer case of Dodge Army truck frame assembly. Power to drive the front wheels of the army trucks is transmitted through the transfer case

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Defense workers in Detroit assembling ...

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Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for military aircraft is illustrated by this photograph. Tire at bottom is of type used on average medium bomber while small tires at top are for tail wheels of various types. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Aircraft tire manufacture. Wide range of tire sizes required for milit...

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Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Conservation of rubber by American motorists makes possible these bomber tires, which are being assembled in a large Eastern aircraft plant. These Negro workers are clamping on lock washers to the wheels before final assembly of the landing gear. Glenn L. Martin Bomber Plant. Baltimore, Maryland

Manpower. Negro bomber plant workers. Conservation of rubber by Americ...

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

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Maiden flight for a new consolidated transport, just off the assembly line of a Western plant. Wheels are being retracted just after the takeoff. This new warship of the air is capable of operation at high altitudes and over great ranges for high accuracy bombing invasions. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Maiden flight for a new ...

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YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. The enormous size of the landing wheels of a YB-17 bomber can be appreciated when compared with the sizes of the two men inspecting the landing gear. The men, a staff sergeant and a technical sergeant, belong to a bombardment squadron at Langley Field, Virginia

YB-17 bombardment squadron, Langley Field, Virginia. The enormous size...

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Baltimore, Maryland. Welding damaged steel plates which hold rubber sandwiches in the wheels of PCC trolleys at the machine shop of the Washington terminal, maintenance plant of the Baltimore Transit Company

Baltimore, Maryland. Welding damaged steel plates which hold rubber sa...

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Chicago, Illinois. Bringing in a new pair of wheels to replace the old ones on a freight car on the repair tracks at a yard of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad

Chicago, Illinois. Bringing in a new pair of wheels to replace the old...

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Production. Wagon wheels. From the wagon assembly of a Southern wagon plant comes this once familiar vehicle which is being built in great volume these days as a result of the rubber shortage. This worker is giving a farm wagon the final once-over

Production. Wagon wheels. From the wagon assembly of a Southern wagon ...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels in the making. Workers in a Southern wagon plant countersinking steel tire which has been attached to wheel assembly. Wagon wheel making is having a boom business because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Wagon wheels in the making. Workers in a Sou...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel tire to the wagon wheel assembly in the plant of a Southern wagon company which is experiencing a business boom because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Fitting the steel ti...

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.

Baltimore, Maryland. Rubber sandwiches which form a cushion between the thread and the axle of PCC trolley wheels. These are hard to get now

Baltimore, Maryland. Rubber sandwiches which form a cushion between th...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas shipment. The trucks are shipped in lots of two, four or six to a box. When crates contain only two trucks, wheels and tires are included in the box, but where they are shipped in lots of four or more, there are separate boxes for the chassis, cabs, express bodies, wheels and tires, and sheet metal

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas...

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These wheels help make the demountable house "demountable." Frame for a section of one of the 150 demountable houses which the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is building at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, for defense workers. A set of four wheels is mounted in the base of the floor frame of each section, one wheel near each corner. The

These wheels help make the demountable house "demountable." Frame for ...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon running gear in a Southern wagon plant which is receiving a rush of orders these days as a result of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Assembling wagon run...

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Conversion. Heaters to bogie wheels. Ready for final assembly, these bogie wheel springs have been stacked in the erstwhile warehouse of a Midwest heater factory. These springs are fitted into bogie wheel assemblies for Army M-4 tanks

Conversion. Heaters to bogie wheels. Ready for final assembly, these b...

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War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer in place at a Lompoc, California project. Electrical, water and drainage connections have been made. Heavy wooden sawhorses are slipped under each end in line with main support of trailer floor, to permit removal of wheels and re-use of tires in delivering other trailers. This trailer was made by Western Trailer Company of Los Angeles

War housing. Lompoc trailer camp. A war housing trailer in place at a ...

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Topeka, Kansas. Wheeling an engine of the 3200 freight class in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops. The engine is about to be lowered onto its wheels

Topeka, Kansas. Wheeling an engine of the 3200 freight class in the At...

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Conversion. Toy factory. This worker formerly produced toy wheels on this press; now his converted press adds to Uncle Sam's might in production of condenser caps for the Signal Corps, and of radio filter boxes for jeeps and tanks. Keystone

Conversion. Toy factory. This worker formerly produced toy wheels on t...

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Chicago, Illinois. Unloading car wheels just arrived from the repair shops at the rip tracks of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad

Chicago, Illinois. Unloading car wheels just arrived from the repair s...

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Production. Airplane manufacture, general. Wooden wheels are attached to a P-51 ("Mustang") fighter plane so it may be moved around the ramp at the Inglewood, California plant of North American Aviation, Incorporated. When it is ready for flight tests, regular landing wheels with rubber tires will be substituted. This plant produces the battle-tested B-25 ("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. Wooden wheels are attached ...

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Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Just off the assembly line of a western plane, a new consolidated transport makes its maiden flight. The landing wheels are being retracted as the plane soars. This new transport, an adaptation of 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. It is built in a plant equipped with one of the best and most modern air conditioning and fluorescent lighting systems in the country

Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. Just off the assembly li...

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Kansas City, Kansas. A row of nose wheels for planes in a conveyor at an assembly plant of North American Aviation, Inc.

Kansas City, Kansas. A row of nose wheels for planes in a conveyor at ...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Applying the finishing touches to a completed wagon wheel in the painting room of a Southern wagon wheel company which is swamped with orders because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Revival of a dying art. Applying the finishi...

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Production. Wagon wheels. Wheels for wagons. Loading completed wagon wheels and running gear assemblies from a Southern wagon wheel plant which is enjoying boom business these days because of the rubber shortage

Production. Wagon wheels. Wheels for wagons. Loading completed wagon w...

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

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman grinding the end of a locomotive wheel at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman grinding the end of a locomo...

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

Baltimore, Maryland. Spraying paint on bus wheels at the maintenance terminal of the Baltimore Transit Company

Baltimore, Maryland. Spraying paint on bus wheels at the maintenance t...

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Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas shipment. The trucks are shipped in lots of two, four or six to a box. When crates contain only two trucks, wheels and tires are included in the box, but where they are shipped in lots of four or more, there are separate boxes for the chassis, cabs, express bodies, wheels and tires, and sheet metal

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas...

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. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Another new Lockheed P-38 pursuit ship leaves the main assembly line of a large Western aircraft plant. The station stand has been swept clear and the ship is being lowered away to rest on its own wheels. From here it will be rolled to a test field where propellers will be installed. If trial flights and final inspections prove it satisfactory, the ship will be delivered to the Army

Production. Lockheed P-38 pursuit planes. Another new Lockheed P-38 pu...

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Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corportation Dodge truck plant. Wheels are quickly bolted to Dodge Army trucks by automatic wrenches

Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Chrysler Corportation Dodge truck plant....

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Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Greasing truck wheels

Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Greasing truck wheels

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Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman rolling wheels ready to be ground. She is a grinder and hooker (one who hooks things onto crane chains) at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads

Buffalo, New York. Italian-American woman rolling wheels ready to be g...

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.

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas shipment. The trucks are shipped in lots of two, four or six to a box. When crates contain only two trucks, wheels and tires are included in the box, but where they are shipped in lots of four or more, there are separate boxes for the chassis, cabs, express bodies, wheels and tires, and sheet metal

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Crating Dodge Army trucks for overseas...

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

Defense housing. The first section of the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) experimental trailer-house is backed up onto its foundation in the mountains of North Carolina. The section is equipped with wheels on the underside, the foundation is equipped with tracks. The wheels are placed on the tracks and half a house rolls into

Defense housing. The first section of the Tennessee Valley Authority's...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Image source: Tennessee Valley Authority; KX-1831. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office ... More

Chicago, Illinois. Painting grease on the bearings of new car wheels just arrived from the shops at the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad rip tracks

Chicago, Illinois. Painting grease on the bearings of new car wheels j...

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Two new tools were set in the New Britain-Gridley lathe, pictured above, to adapt it for the cutting of twenty-millimeter shell booster parts. The new parts are an eccentric spindle, which may be seen attached to a driving rod in the center of the machine, and a thread rolling attachment. In peacetime, the machine was used to turn out spur gears, worm wheels and commentator rings in steel and brass

Two new tools were set in the New Britain-Gridley lathe, pictured abov...

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Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of bicyclist, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Wagon wheels. The beginning of a wagon wheel. Worker at a Southern wagon builder's plant finishes the assembly of a wheel hub

Production. Wagon wheels. The beginning of a wagon wheel. Worker at a ...

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Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Lubricating the bogie wheels of an M-3 tank at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The Army is very particular about its equipment and one of the first lessons the recruit learns is to give each vehicle the attention it requires

Fort Knox. Maintenance of mechanized equipment. Lubricating the bogie ...

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Buffalo, New York. Women operating lathes at the New York Car Wheel Company, makers of locomotive wheels for the railroads. The company never hired women until recently and most of these women are still learning to use the machines

Buffalo, New York. Women operating lathes at the New York Car Wheel Co...

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