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De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Behind the mask this arc welder wears at the training school of the De Land, Florida pool is the face of one of the townsmen, familiar to many in the community as a barber, salesman, taxi driver or gas station attendant. Soon he'll be working on one of the many important war production jobs the De Land pool is doing

Vid Habo Laggkärlsfabrik på Munkvägen 8, arbetar Elof Samuelsson med svarvning av björkplaywood.

Nashville, Tennessee. Welding a fuel tank. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

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Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. To ensure maximum efficiency, every 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrel made in this former automobile plant is checked and double checked. Here an inspector is examining the size of the bore in an army barrel. Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. Every inch of every 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrel made in this former automobile plant is examined before it receives its final approval. Here, government inspectors are shown looking into the very middle of a gun barrel through a special instrument. Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. Every inch of every 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrel made in this former automobile plant is examined before it receives its final approval. Here, government inspectors are shown looking into the very middle of a gun barrel through a special instrument. Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. Workers in a former automobile plant machining the firing end of a 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrel for the U.S. Army. After the tip has been properly machined and threaded, a special addition will be put on it to protect the firing crew. Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. Workers in a former automobile plant machining the firing end of a 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrel for the U.S. Army. After the tip has been properly machined and threaded, a special addition will be put on it to protect the firing crew. Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. Here, in a former automobile plant, 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrels are machined and made ready for front line duty. Since they must shoot fast moving objects at great distances, they must be finished to the very finest of tolerances. Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. Here, in a former automobile plant, 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrels are machined and made ready for front line duty. Since they must shoot fast moving objects at great distances, they must be finished to the very finest of tolerances. Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrels for the U.S. Army are machined and finished in a former automobile plant. First they are cut to size and then their centers located. After that, they go down long machining lines where they are finished by mass production methods. Never before has any manufacturer attempted to make gun barrels of this size on a mass production basis. Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. With high-precision instruments, anti-aircraft gun barrels made in a former automobile plant are measured to a ten-thousandth of an inch. Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

Conversion. Automobiles to 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns. To ensure maximum efficiency, every 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrel made in this former automobile plant is checked and double checked. Here an inspector is examining the size of the bore in an army barrel. Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Detroit

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

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michigan wayne county detroit film negatives conversion automobiles guns efficiency barrel gun barrel automobile plant automobile plant inspector size bore army army barrel chrysler corporation chrysler corporation highland park highland park 1940 s 40 s workers industrial history worker detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress
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01/01/1942
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
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Detroit (Mich.) ,  42.33139, -83.04583
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label_outline Explore Gun Barrel, Bore, Automobile Plant

Portrait of Charles Appleton Longfellow

Gun Barrel Hide Scraper - GRPO 8344

[Gathering of HUD, Department of Energy, White House, and other officials to announce expansion of the President's] Better Buildings Challenge [to cover multifamily housing, as well as the launch of the Better Buildings Accelerators to support state and local government-led efforts to cut energy waste and eliminate market and technical barriers to greater building energy efficiency. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan joined Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman, White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley, and Special Assistant to the President on Energy and Climate Change, Dan Utech, among other participants.]

Tank manufacture (Chrysler). Ten thousand skilled workers at the huge Chrysler tank arsenal,in Detroit,turning out twenty-eight ton M-3 tanks. This pair is attaching a hinge plate to the cupola of a gun turret which will be set on one of these rolling arsenals

Conversion. Automobile industry. To convert automobile assembly plants into war production plants, much of the old machinery must be removed. This workman, perched high, is helping to speed the changeover by removing an overhead conveyor. The Plymouth Company, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan

Rags. Collection and processing. A portion of the sorting room in a large Eastern rag processing plant. In this room new rag remnants, consisting chiefly of cuttings received from clothing factories, are sorted. The rags are classified and separated according to the type of cloth; colored rags are graded according to the ease with which they can be bleached. The baskets in back of the women are filled with rags that have been sorted and classified. The women work in teams of two; it takes a team about two hours to sort the rags in one full bale. In another part of the plant, a room of the same size and general appearance as this is used for sorting used rags. Shapiro Company, Baltimore, Maryland

Taking the Initiative: Creating a More Efficient Army Workforce

Gun Barrel - Public domain photo of museum object

Sheet Metal Technician, MASTER Sergeant (MSGT) Jeff Nelson, USAF, in the process of making a barbecue grill out of a scrap barrel for deployed members of the 151st Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Utah Air National Guard (UANG). The unit activated in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

A view of the bore of a 5-inch 54 cal. gun barrel

Farming (Men with Barrel of Grasshopper Bait) - Bureau of Indian Affairs

Defense housing, Erie, Pennsylvania. Cutting sheeting to size with power driven hand saws speed up the work of the sheeting crew

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michigan wayne county detroit film negatives conversion automobiles guns efficiency barrel gun barrel automobile plant automobile plant inspector size bore army army barrel chrysler corporation chrysler corporation highland park highland park 1940 s 40 s workers industrial history worker detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress