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View of William S. Knudsen, M.M. Gilman, W.L. Shirer, Major General George H. Brett and Sir Henry Self at press conference during dedication ceremonies for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Gathered for a press conference at the dedication were these distinguished personalities, reading left to right: W.S. Knudsen, Chief of the Office of Production Management; M.M. Gilman, host and President of the Packard Motor Car Company; W.L. Shirer, Berlin correspondent, Columbia Broadcasting System; Major General George H. Brett, Chief of the U.S. Army Air Corps; and Sir Henry Self, Chief of the British Purchasing Commission."
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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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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."
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View of an engineer testing control valve for water mains at Rolls-Royce Engine Test factory. The factory produced Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Deep under the foundations of the Rolls-Royce Engine Test factory, an engineer tries out a control valve handling the water mains that feed the cooling units on the testing engines. Water sufficient to handle the needs of a city of 50,000 population is required to cool each day's quota of engines as they come from main assembly to the dynamometer test blocks."
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View of a cover for a photograph album commemorating production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Cover is decorated with coat of arms.
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View of power shovel excavating foundation for Roll-Royce Heat Treat plant for Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Excavating shovels moved up in the dust of the demolition crews in the race with winter to dig foundations ahead of frost. These are the deep foundations of the Rolls-Royce Heat Treat plant where parts for the fighting engine are tempered for strength and endurance."
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View of guests on factory passenger train at dedication ceremonies for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Painted on train: "Packard special. Packard Motor Car Co. Defense Plant. Aircraft engine dedication Aug. 2, 1941." Label on back: "Guests at the dedication were transported through the plant on a special intra-mural facility, which negotiated narrow aisles and sharp turns to earn for itself a permanent place in defense plant equipment and the pseudonym 'Toonerville Trolley.'"
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View of Sir Henry Self, J.M. Reid and C.R. Fairey inspecting Packard Rolls-Royce parts at dedication ceremonies for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Among distinguished guests inspecting Packard Rolls-Royce parts at the August 2nd dedication were, left to right: Sir Henry Self, Chief of the British Purchasing Commission; J.M. Reid, of the Rolls-Royce staff; and C.R. Fairey, of the British Purchasing Commission."
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View of the introduction for a photograph album commemorating production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Text reads [in part]: "An adventure in cooperation. This is the album of a ten-month miracle in industrial defense. It symbolizes the effort of nations upholding their ideals of democracy and portrays in pictures a forty-week period wherein the Packard Motor Car Company brought the Rolls-Royce Merlin fighting engine from blue print to production."
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View of Viscount Lord Halifax and guests on factory passenger train at dedication ceremonies for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. "Rolling through the Packard defense plants, Lord Halifax and party inspect facilities of the Heat Treat building. In this building are located the hardening, carburizing and tempering furnaces where Rolls-Royce parts are heat treated."
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