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View of Viscount Lord Halifax making radio broadcast regarding production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "From his office at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., British Ambassador Lord Halifax climaxed the international broadcast dedicating the Packard Rolls-Royce aircraft factory with these words: '... the significance of this occasion has greater import than a battle won ... less than twelve months ago your nation called upon you men of industry for a defense production miracle that is unrivalled in the history of nations. Your response was in action rather than in words ... in one short year you have woven a defense pattern almost as great as American industry itself ... Industry works better than it talks. While articulate enemies of Democracy have busied themselves with predictions of delay and failure, American industry has been quietly at work ... The record to date, the concentrated roar of a million new production machines, is more eloquent than the combined voices of all the dictators. American industry has met its challenge by the unduplicated feat of doubling itself withing a a year ... This growth is no better exemplified than at the Packard Motor Car Company where this great industrial plant today signalized the completion of facilities to manufacture Rolls-Royce fighter engines. The Packard Motor Car Company was forty years in its building. The Rolls-Royce effort, almost as large as Packard itself, was accomplished in forty weeks. Only in America could such seemingly impossible miracles be so swiftly accomplished."

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Photo courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, National Automotive History Collection and used with permission.

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