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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. 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. 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. Applying automobile production methods to machining of 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrels in a former automobile plant. Five cutting instruments work at the same time. Under the old single-operation methods of gun making, only one of these could work at one time. Automobile workers are proud of the improvement. 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. 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. Applying automobile production methods to machining of 40 mm. anti-aircraft gun barrels in a former automobile plant. Five cutting instruments work at the same time. Under the old single-operation methods of gun making, only one of these could work at one time. Automobile workers are proud of the improvement. 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

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. 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

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Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

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Portrait of Charles Appleton Longfellow

Tire recapping. A recap job on a passenger car tire. The tire with a tread strip of reclaimed camelback rubber is put into a curing mold. The old tread surface had previously been ground down evenly and coated with rubber adhesive. The plan to recap passenger tires with reclaimed rubber camelback, approved by rubber director William M. Jeffers, was put into effect in February 1943 to reduce the demand for replacement tires and still keep civilian cars in service

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Production. Jeep engines. This grinding machine in a Midwest plant is doing yeoman service in the production of jeep engines for the Army. Continental Motors, Michigan

Detroit, Michigan. Steps in the manufacture of casings for 105 mm. shells in the Budd wheel plant. Machining the rotating band on the shell

Detroit, Michigan. Assembly of Rolls Royce engines at the Packard motor car company. Checking threads with an amplifier

[Artillery position showing guns, ammunition shells, sandbags, and lean-tos]

Gun Barrel Hide Scraper - GRPO 8344

1918 Cadillac Type 57, Gardiner, Jefferson County, WA

Voices for a mighty argument. A long line of big guns being rushed toward completion under the war production program. Guns shown here are being turned out in the major caliber shop of a large eastern arsenal

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

Production. B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bombers. Thousands of feet of insulated conductor wire that go into a North American B-25 bomber are sorted by this woman employee in the electrical assembly department at Inglewood, California. In addition to the battle-tested B-25 "Billy Mitchell" bomber, used in General Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, this plant produces the P-51 "Mustang" fighter plane which was first brought into prominence by the British raid on Dieppe

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michigan wayne county detroit film negatives lot 2020 alfred t palmer united states office of war information photo automobile plant gun barrel automobiles guns chrysler corporation highland park ultra high resolution high resolution office of war information farm security administration workers industrial history detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress