View of workers laying concrete forms for tunnel connecting assembly factory for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines to Test and Teardown units. Label on back: "In sub-zero weather, with oil flares to warm numbed fingers, builders fought snow and frost to lay the forms for a tunnel connecting the new assembly factory with the Test and Teardown units beneath a busy street and several spans of railroad track. " Item #: na043374 Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.
View of a motorcyclist delivering a letter to a man from a three-wheeled Indian Dispatch-Tow motorcycle. "Packard service" sign on fence; "Dispatch-Tow. Packard service, Packard Motor Car Company of New York" is painted on motorcycle carrier.
View of Alvan Macauley, Capt. Hermann Koehl, Baron Ehrenfried von Huenefeld and Major James Fitzmaurice, crew of the Bremen, posing with a Packard 24 cylinder X aircraft motor. Sign displayed above group reads: "Packard 24 cylinder X motor, most powerful aircraft engine in the world.
View of Alvan Macauley and aviator Charles Lindbergh posing with a 9 cylinder Packard airplane at Selfridge Field. Handwritten on back: "Packard aircraft, 9 cyl. , diesel, 1930.
View of a worker operating a Baush multiple spindle drilling machine for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Multiple spindle drilling and reaming machines, such as this giant Baush, are used to bring speed and efficiency to the production of cylinder heads and crankcases. Many such machines in the Rolls machining department are capable of drilling a total of ninety-six holes in one and one-half minutes.
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