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 BigKev  Merlin Engines  01/21/2025 8:27
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View of the 50,000th built Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engine. Sign displayed over engine reads: "Packard's 50,000th war engine. Packard-built Rolls-Royce airplane engine powers Mustang, Mosquito, Warhawk, Lancaster, Hurricane." On back: "Neg. no. 9292 J. Date: Oct 23, 1944. Main guide: RR. Comment: Packard-built Rolls-Royce Merlin airplane engine, the 50,000th built, October 1944."
Item #: na051726
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BigKev Merlin Engines 01/21/2025 10:42
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Bird's-eye view of factory for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "When Spring came 'round, three great new factories had been built and welded to the mile-long unit of the Packard Motor Car Company. An equal amount of space had been made ready within the existing plants adjoining the new structures."
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BigKev Merlin Engines 01/21/2025 12:11
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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 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 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."
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View of guests at dedication ceremonies for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "More than 700 distinguished guests assembled on the floor of the Packard Rolls-Royce assembly building. They heard an international radio broadcast dedicating the first Packard-built Rolls, which was started by a voice impulse from England."
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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 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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Interior view of factory for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Within the finished factories acres of space lay waiting while other crews brought billions of candle power of light in miles of fluorescent neon tubing. Air conditioned and indirectly lighted, these factories gave impetus to speed and efficiency."
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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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