View of two men operating a Bullard machine for machining cylinders for Packard marine engines. Label on back: "Bullard machine for machining cylinders. This eight spindle lathe, type "D" Mult-Au-Matic, which rough and semi-finishes the cylinder bore and rough turns various diameters on the outside diameter weighs 48,000 pounds and cost $50,000. In order to install this machine it was necessary to set it into a pit to secure clearance for the heighth [sic]." Handwritten on back: "Packard. Marine engine. ACWP - Machine tools."
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View of Alvan Macauley and aviator Charles Lindbergh posing with a 9 cylinder Packard airplane at Selfridge Field. Handwritten on back: "Packard aircraft, 9 cyl., diesel, 1930. Alvan Macauley with Charles A. Lindbergh at Selfridge Field (Joy Field)."
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View of Alvan Macauley, Capt. Hermann Koehl, Baron Ehrenfried von Huenefeld and Major James Fitzmaurice, crew of the Bremen, posing with a Packard 24 cylinder X aircraft motor. Sign displayed above group reads: "Packard 24 cylinder X motor, most powerful aircraft engine in the world. 1400 h.p. @ 2700 r.p.m. Packard 24 Zylinder X Motor der starkste Flugzeug Motor der Welt, 1400 p.s. bei 2700 UMDR/Min." Typed on back: "Neg. no. 2739-A. Main guide: Portraits. 2nd sub. guide: Alvan Macauley with groups." Handwritten on back: "With Capt. Koehl, Baron von Huenefeld & Major Fitzmaurice, Bremen fliers."
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View of Viscount Lord Halifax, J.G. Vincent and George Christopher examining cylinder liners in the Rolls-Royce engine division. Label on back: "Lord Halifax, with Packard vice presidents J.G. Vincent and George Christopher, inspects cylinder liners in the Rolls engine division. Giant machines turn out these units, made of chrome molybdenum steel, from a seamless tube resembling gas pipe, at the rate of one every two minutes."
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View of M.C. Kessler posing in a Packard car equipped with a Kessler engine. Handwritten on back: "M.C. Kessler, testing his engine in a Packard car, 1911."
Item #: na050705
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View of a motorcyclist delivering a letter to a man from a three-wheeled Indian Dispatch-Tow motorcycle. "Packard service" sign on fence; "Dispatch-Tow. Packard service, Packard Motor Car Company of New York" is painted on motorcycle carrier. Stamped on back: "Ernest Drake, commercial art photography, Springfield, Mass." Handwritten on back: "A Packard distributor and the Indian Dispatch-Tow. Indian, 1931."
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View of motorists in Packard car no. 12 during the 1909 Sealed Bonnet Contest. Handwritten on back: "Packard, Sealed Bonnet Contest, Wash. D.C. Auto Club, May 15, 1909. Tours--Sealed Bonnet Contest, 1909."
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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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