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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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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 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 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. The pattern formed by the attracted metal filings discloses any defect in the finished part."
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View of welder at factory for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Through the zero nights, men with blazing torches labored to knit frameworks of steel into the pattern of a factory."
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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. The Ten-Month Miracle attracted hundreds of military and government officials. Here, OPM Chief W.S. Knudsden signs in at the Packard plant."
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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."
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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 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 Harley Whitmore congratulating George Boyette on production of first Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine. Label on back: "With Rolls-Royce Merlin engine number one installed and ready for test, Harley Whitmore, Packard test crew chief, congratulates George Boyette, in charge of engine tests. The engine awaits the signal from England that sent it thundering into life on August 2, 1941."
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