Public domain
Conversion. Automobile plant. A giant overhead crane moves a 6D Bliss press, weighing seventeen tons, from a plant being entirely cleared for outright conversion to armament Production. When set up in another of the buildings of a big automobile factory, this press will form door trim panels of 4 x
From the collection of Library of Congress. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Credit lineConversion. Automobile plant. A giant overhead crane moves a 6D Bliss press, weighing seventeen tons, from a plant being entirely cleared for outright conversion to armament Production. When set up in. 1942-01-01. Palmer, Alfred T., United States. Office For Emergency Management. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
Similar works
Chrysler tank arsenal. This is one of the huge machine tools used in production of the M-3 tanks, the twenty-eight ton monsters built at the Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. This press works with a power of 450 tons, stamping out quarter inch steel floor plates
Befire dies are shipped they are tested on these tryout presses where the new dies are put into actual use and their operation scrutinized very closely by expert machinists. Plant of Frederick Colman & Sons, Inc., Detroit, Michigan
Conversion. Automobile plant. A seventeen-ton 6D Bliss press is lowered by overhead crane to the location at which it will produce door trim panels for 4 x 4 and 6 x 6 Army trucks. The press was taken from another of the plant buildings that is being entirely cleared for conversion to other war prod
Production. 155mm shells. Noses are formed on 155mm shells in the Watson Stillman hydraulic press of a converted auto plant. Willy's, Toledo, Ohio
Production. Copper (refining). Shearing sheets of copper produced by electrolysis at a large refining operation. Large amounts of copper are produced for the war effort at the El Paso, Texas plant of Phelps-Dodge Refining Company
Conversion. Automobile plant. All silent in this huge plant where automobiles were manufactured twenty-four hours a day up until a few weeks ago. This giant will soon be converted to production of tanks for Uncle Sam's army. If conversion is not practical, the machine will be pooled or stored. Chevr