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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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BigKev Merlin Engines 01/21/2025 10:42
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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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BigKev Merlin Engines 01/21/2025 10:42
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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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BigKev Merlin Engines 01/21/2025 10:42
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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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BigKev Merlin Engines 01/21/2025 10:42
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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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BigKev Merlin Engines 01/21/2025 10:42
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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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| View of workers inspecting plane propeller shaft of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine on a Magnaflux machine. Label on back: "The plane propeller shaft of the Rolls engine is tested on this special Magnaflux machine. The part is magnetized by electric current and a liquid containing iron filings is poured over it. |
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| View of William S. Knudsen, surrounded by other men, signing in at dedication ceremonies for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Impressive dedication ceremonies marked the beginning of Rolls-Royce production on August 2, 1941, ten months after the signing of the contract. |
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| View of William S. Knudsen, Colonel Jesse G. Vincent and other men at dedication ceremonies for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. |
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| View of workers in plating division for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Elsewhere in the quickening industrial giant, men worked at individual units necessary to the continuity of men and machines in mass production. These put finishing touches on machinery in the plating division, where Rolls parts receive the brilliance of chrome and nickel finish. |
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