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Production. War housing trailers. The side of a war housing trailer nears completion on a table-top jig at Western Trailer Company's plant in Los Angeles. Exceptional strength is secured through built-up construction of Masonite over plywood with a casein bond. The side is secured to spacers with drive screws

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Production. War housing trailers. The side of a war housing trailer nears completion on a table-top jig at Western Trailer Company's plant in Los Angeles. Exceptional strength is secured through built-up construction of Masonite over plywood with a casein bond. The side is secured to spacers with drive screws

Production. War housing trailers. Masonite board is bent into position and carefully lined up on the plywood body of a war housing trailer being built at Los Angeles by Western Trailer Company. Nails and drive screws are used in addition to glue

Production. War housing trailers. A war housing trailer takes shape at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Frame members have already been installed at the rear of this trailer, and the top is set in place. A new chassis is already in place at the right, ready to receive stringers

Production. War housing trailers. A war housing trailer takes shape at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Frame members have already been installed at the rear of this trailer, and the top is set in place. A new chassis is already in place at the right, ready to receive stringers

Production. War housing trailers. A complete side assembly of a war housing trailer is set in place and secured at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. At this stage, the trailer chassis is held on jacks to give stability and to make fitting of sections fast and accurate

Production. War housing trailers. Lining panels of 18 inch fir plywood go into place on a war housing trailer under construction at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Mahogany, formerly used in most house trailer lining jobs, is now on the shortage list

Production. War housing trailers. Lining panels of 1/8 inch fir plywood go into place on a war housing trailer under construction at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. Mahogany, formerly used in most house trailer lining jobs, is now on the shortage list

Production. War housing trailers. The floor of a war housing trailer is laid over a chassis in inverted position at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. This facilitates installation of wheel wells of paper plastic and painted with asphaltic preservative paint. Drive screws hold the plastic wheel well in place

Production. War housing trailers. The floor of a war housing trailer is laid over a chassis in inverted position at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. This facilitates installation of wheel wells of paper plastic and painted with asphaltic preservative paint. Drive screws hold the plastic wheel well in place

Production. War housing trailers. The side of a war housing trailer nears completion on a table-top jig at Western Trailer Company's plant in Los Angeles. Exceptional strength is secured through built-up construction of Masonite over plywood with a casein bond. The side is secured to spacers with drive screws

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california los angeles county los angeles safety film negatives east los angeles production war trailers completion jig western trailer company western trailer company plant exceptional strength exceptional strength built up construction built up construction masonite plywood casein bond casein bond spacers drive screws 1940 s 40 s united states history industrial history factory workers library of congress
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01/01/1942
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Bransby, David, photographer
United States. Office for Emergency Management.
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Los Angeles, California, United States ,  34.05223, -118.24368
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Two crewmen examine one of the five-bladed inboard screws of the battleship USS IOWA (BB 61) while it is in Dry Dock No. 4

The Honorable Donald B. Rice (left), Secretary of the Air Force, presents the United States Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Award to the Honorable Paul Wolfowitz, Under Secretary of Defense for Defense Policy, at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., on Jan. 13, 1993. OSD Package No. A07D-00227 (DOD PHOTO by Helene C. Stikkel) (Released)

U.S. Air Force sheet metal technicians with the 116th

Nashville, Tennessee. Women operation a giant stamping machine. Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant

Builder Constructionman Charles Notbohm cuts a piece of plywood during the construction of a berthing project in Taqaddum.

Production. War housing trailers. Many time-saving methods are employed in the making of war housing trailers at the Los Angeles plant of Western Trailer Company. A heavy-duty stapling machine, for example, makes fast work of fastening the waterproof finish sheeting in place. Later a decorative strip will cover the staple heads and the sheeting will be trimmed off flush with the lower edge of the stip

Rushing the SS George Washington Carver to completion. Negro skilled workers played an important part in the construction of the SS George Washington Carver, second Liberty Ship named for a Negro, in the Richmond Shipyard No. 1 of the Kaiser Company. Mack Hayes, journeyman welder, graduated from the Richmond welding school before beginning work for Kaiser eight months ago

U.S. Air Force sheet metal technicians with the 116th

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

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california los angeles county los angeles safety film negatives east los angeles production war trailers completion jig western trailer company western trailer company plant exceptional strength exceptional strength built up construction built up construction masonite plywood casein bond casein bond spacers drive screws 1940 s 40 s united states history industrial history factory workers library of congress