Packard Precision Built Power Expo at a Unidentified Airfield
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Photograph. Photograph of the Packard Precision Built Power expo at a unidentified airfield. Image shows a crowd gathered around a Packard V-1650 Merlin Engine display at the Packard Precision Built Power exposition. On the other side, mostly blocked by the engine display, is a P-51B Mustang. In the background is a airfield with a single engine aircraft and on the far left of the image is what appears to be an early helicopter. "26088A" is written on the back of the image. Location unknown. Between 1943 and 1949
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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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Exhibitions--American
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