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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. All parts are minutely inspected and re-inspected."
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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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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 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 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 factory workers on assembly line for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "For the first time in aviation practice, Packard brings the assembly-line technique to the manufacture and finish of crankshafts for the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. On an overhead track the crankshafts move before a pattern of machines as each performs an operation pointing towards the finished product. Each shaft undergoes eighty-five operations, done on 108 separate machines."
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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 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 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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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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