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 BigKev  Merlin Engines  01/21/2025 10:42
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| View of workers producing Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "In the race against time, men produced while they trained. As units of the machining division were brought to productive completion, apprentices moved in with seasoned workers and the pool of reserve parts began to grow weeks ahead of actual production. |
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BigKev Merlin Engines 01/21/2025 10:42
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| Interior view of factory for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Within the finished factories acres of space lay waiting while other crews brought billions of candle power of light in miles of fluorescent neon tubing. Air conditioned and indirectly lighted, these factories gave impetus to speed and efficiency. |
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BigKev Merlin Engines 01/21/2025 10:42
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| View of draftsmen working at drafting tables for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Through the winter, while factories grew, other legions of men worked above their drafting boards in the design adaptation of the Rolls-Royce engine. In late spring, they moved their work to the new Rolls-Royce Administration building and carried on with better facilities made ready for them. |
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| View of Viscount Lord Halifax in propeller test cell for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine. Label on back: "In the vaulted dimness of the propeller test room, Lord Halifax stands in contemplation of a thundering engine. In its strength he sees the destiny of a democracy whose challenging voice is the roar of a million such machines along the front lines of American industry. |
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BigKev Merlin Engines 01/21/2025 10:42
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| View of Viscount Lord Halifax and other men in control room of propeller test cell for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine. Label on back: "In the control room of the propeller test cell, Lord Halifax and party look on as a Rolls engine is put through its paces. The complicated control panel simulates actual flight instruments and enables an exhaustive working test of every finished engine. |
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| View of Viscount Lord Halifax and other men examining gears and propeller hub for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "The Halifax party examines gears and a propeller hub in a Rolls inspection department. Here, complex gages and checking instruments work to a quarter-thousandth of an inch and profilometers measure surface smoothness to within a millionth of an inch. |
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| View of engineers, around a table, drafting plans for an industrial facility to build Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "In Detroit, work was underway as engineers began the layout of a vast industrial facility, while others turned to the design adaptation of a famous engine to American workmanship, experience, metals and machinery. " Item #: na043236 Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission. |
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| View of workers installing machinery at factory for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Tractor in foreground. Label on back: "Beneath the first light of the fluorescent lamps, toiling crews began the placement of heavy machinery in the pattern of machines that brings the end result of mass production. |
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| View of workers operating machinery for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "More than 3,000 machines, costing more than $18,000,000. 00, are housed within a single factory where parts for the Rolls engine are prepared for final assembly in the engine. |
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| View of factory workers in polishing division for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Before metal stalls lighted by fluorescent lamps, men of the polishing division operate power tools that achieve finishes on aluminum castings equalling the high gloss of silver plate. " Item #: na043380 Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission. |
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