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View of workers producing Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "The mass productive techniques of the automotive industry begin to be visible as Packard workmen and apprentices establish the first feeder lines behind the working machines of a new industry."
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View of workers operating polishing units for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "From the ranks of its automotive divisions came these expert Packard operators to man the polishing units in the Rolls aircraft division. In this department are ninety-two powered polishing machines, each equipped with air exhaust systems to remove all metal dusts and other impurities."
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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 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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BigKev Merlin Engines 01/21/2025 12:11
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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 workers installing machinery at factory for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Tractor in foreground. Label on back: "Beneath the first light of the fluorescent lamps, toiling crews began the placement of heavy machinery in the pattern of machines that brings the end result of mass production."
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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 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 workers in plating division for production of Packard Rolls-Royce Merlin XX engines. Label on back: "Elsewhere in the quickening industrial giant, men worked at individual units necessary to the continuity of men and machines in mass production. These put finishing touches on machinery in the plating division, where Rolls parts receive the brilliance of chrome and nickel finish."
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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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