Public domain
Conversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Using the same drill press which once assembled piano parts, this employee of a Chicago firm now installs gears in the pneumatic motors of trainer planes. The factory has stopped piano production for the duration and now produces trainer-plane motors for Americ
From the collection of Library of Congress. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Credit lineConversion. Pianos to airplane motors. Using the same drill press which once assembled piano parts, this employee of a Chicago firm now installs gears in the pneumatic motors of trainer planes. The fa. 1942-01-01. Rosener, Ann, United States. Office Of War Information. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
Similar works
Conversion. Electric shaver plant. This worker in a New England plant that normally produces electric dry shavers is now busy turning out spring collets for machine tools to be used in war production. On this Norton type C six-inch semi-automatic cylindrical grinder, he used to turn out rotor shafts
Transformer manufacture. For many years this employee of a large Eastern electrical company has been winding low voltage coils for power transformers. He's become one of Uncle Sam's valued workers, because transformers are essential to almost every phase of the armament program. Westinghouse, Sharon
Production. Marine engines. A drilling operation on the crankshaft of a marine engine for the Navy. This workman in a Midwest plant can certify that every precaution is taken to assure the finest quality in every crankshaft produced. Continental Motors, Michigan
Production. Aircraft engines. A skilled mechanic and determined war worker, Zed W. Robinson, proves that skin pigment bears no relation to efficiency of work. He's one of many Negroes employed in a large Midwest aircraft plant in skilled and semi-skilled capacity. Tightening bolts of a cylinder barr
Untitled
Untitled