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Re: Albert Kahn and the Packard plant
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And... submitted for your approval... Here is a page from a Progressive Welder Company (predecessor company to Creative Industries of Detroit that did work for Packard). You can see a clear reference to B-29. And this fixture, the welding machines that worked with it and some of the B-29 wing construction itself was done in Detroit.
Also note they were building what car folks today call "rotisserie" fixtures for automotive and truck frames in the 1930s and 1940s! By the way, both Progressive Welder Company and heir Creative Industries of Detroit were contractors to Boeing. While the few people who today know of Progressive Welder and Creative Industries think of these companies only in relationship to automobiles, they were involved with lots of aircraft ranging from the B-29 to Sikorsky and Hughes helicopters to BD-5/BD-5J to Boeing 757 / 767, to the almighty B-2 stealth bomber. They did it all! Attach file:  (385.87 KB)
Posted on: 2017/2/27 12:37
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Re: Albert Kahn and the Packard plant
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I saved many Kahn architectural booklets and blueprints for the Packard Plant back in the 1970s.
The booklets there would have been tossed out if I had not saved them. There were many, many more I had to leave behind simply because I ran out of space in the vehicle! These are just a few... most are prewar like teens, 1920s, 1930s and some pre and postwar from 1940s. Take a look... Attach file: (218.34 KB) (236.77 KB) (276.02 KB)
Posted on: 2017/2/27 14:11
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