Packard Employee Moving 40MM Shell Casings, Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan
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Photograph. Photograph of a Packard employee moving 40mm shell casings, Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan. This image shows a Packard employee moving a rack of 40mm shells. Additional shells and racks are visible in the background on the shop floor and on a work bench. The photographic negative number "23328A" is written on the back. This is a smaller scale duplicate of 2017.450.928. Packard Motor Car Company. Detroit, Michigan. Between 1941 and 1945
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Photographs from the Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan. During World War II the Packard Motor Car Company produced the Packard Marine engine used on US Navy Patrol Torpedo boats (PT boats), Army crash rescue boats, and merlin engines used in American and British fighter aircraft. This extensive collection of over 1300 photographs, originally from the Packard Motor Company, documents the PT engine production line, merlin engine production line, the PT motor machinist mate school operated by Packard, and various company events. Included are portrait of employees that were serving in the armed forces and of dignitaries visiting the plant.
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Detroit
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42.317
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-83.033
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Factories--American--United States
Shells (Ammunition)--United States