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Production. Marine boilers. Large forge furnaces prepare heats for the shaping of heavy hydraulic fittings and other essential war equipment in a big Midwest plant
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01/01/1942
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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office for Emergency Management.
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Louisville-Jefferson County, 38.20924, -85.70385
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Explore: war equipment
"Me and the old gent." A citation by Donald Nelson, commending the war production effort of Jake Sparling, sixty, and Percy Fogelsong, seventy-nine-year-old ex-lumberjack, who between them produced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in eighteen months. "The old gent and me" have been working fifteen hours daily, seven days a week. "The old gent," hired eighteen months ago to take care of Jake's sick dog, had never before seen a lathe
Production. Marine boilers. Large forge furnaces prepare heats for the shaping of heavy hydraulic fittings and other essential war equipment in a big Midwest plant
"Me and the old gent." This two-man plant operated at Bay City, Michigan by Jake Sparling, sixty-year-old ex-lumberjack who saw his first lathe a year and a half ago, was named by Donald Nelson to head the list of 1,300 plants enrolled in the war production drive. "The old gent and myself," says Sparling, "work fifteen hours a day, seven days a week," and produced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in eighteen months. The money will buy war bonds and stamps
Auto conversion to airplane engines. Some of the equipment impossible to convert from automobile engine manufacture to production of airplane motors is shown back of a huge automobile factory. A dismantled paint booth (left foreground) is among the scrap. In the background, against the rising glass roofs of the plant, tar-covered sheds house valuable machines which could not be converted, and are being stored for the duration to make room for the new war equipment. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York
Chicago, Illinois. Gondola cars loaded with war equipment in one of the Chicago and Northwestern classification yards
Subcontracting. Passaic home workshop pool. Lathe parts are explained to students in the trade school of the Howe Machinery Company, Passaic, New Jersey. The school trains fifty workers at a time in the production of essential war equipment. More than ninety percent secure jobs after training, some in the Howe shop
Tin can alley leads to victory. Save that tin can! Uncle Sam needs it. As vital as iron and steel to the war effort, reclaimed tin is used to make the bushings of airplane motors and machine-gun mounts, and for other war equipment. First step in preparing cans for your government is to remove both ends (or leave attached by no more than one-half inch).
Conversion. Floor waxer plant. Now making machine gun cover plates, this machine was converted from a line shaft drive to motor drive when a small Eastern manufacturing company converted its product from floor waxers to small parts for war equipment. Unable to purchase new equipment for his defense work, the owner bought second-hand equipment and remodelled it. Delivery of first orders was made thirty days after contract, an amazingly short time considering that conversion of the machinery took two weeks of it. Floorola Products Inc., York, Pennsylvania
"Me and the old gent." "The old gent and me" form the only two-man labor-management war production drive committee in the United States. Jake Sparling Pulley Manufacturing Company at Bay City, Michigan, and his helper, seventy-nine-year-old ex-lumberjack Percy Fogelsonger, were cited by Donald Nelson and named to head the list of 1,300 plants enrolled in the War Production Drive. They work fifteen hours each day, seven days a week, and produced 18,000 steel flanges for war equipment in eighteen months
Explore: marine boilers
Production. Marine boilers. Large forge furnaces prepare heats for the shaping of heavy hydraulic fittings and other essential war equipment in a big Midwest plant
Production. Marine boilers. Burning a hole in a large hyperbolic valve block that will be part of a hyperbolic press in a powder factory. Site: a Midwest plant converted to war production
Production. Marine boilers. Forges and heaters at a big Midwest plant waiting on a heat being prepared for the hammers. The plant is producing much essential equipment for the Army
Production. Marine boilers. Driving a die key on a forging hammer in a big Midwest plant processing heavy hydraulic fittings and other necessary equipment for the Army
Production. Marine boilers. A big press performs an operation on heavy flanges in a Midwest plant which has converted all its facilities to war production
Production. Marine boilers. A nozzle is welded on a marine boiler drum in a big Midwest plant producing essential equipment for the Army and Navy
Production. Marine boilers. A turning operation on a large gun mount casting in a big Midwest plant backing the war production drive with all its facilities
Production. Marine boilers. The operator at the controls of a large flanging press must know his buttons. He is working on heavy plate being shaped into marine boiler drums at a big Midwest plant now producing war essentials exclusively
Production. Marine boilers. Huge stocks of tubes for bent tube boilers are built up in shops of a large Midwest manufacturer producing Army and Navy equipment
Explore: fittings
Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, Tapping Room, 4000 Tenth Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, Ductile Iron Foundry, 4000 Tenth Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Production. Marine boilers. Large forge furnaces prepare heats for the shaping of heavy hydraulic fittings and other essential war equipment in a big Midwest plant
Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). Hundreds of skilled workers are engaged in the welding shop. Welded jointures have many advantages over riveted fittings, and welders are sought in increasing quantities for work on Uncle Sam's growing battle fleet
Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, 4000 Tenth Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, Grey Iron Foundry, 4000 Tenth Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Production. Pipe fittings. Large pipe elbows for the Army are formed in a Midwest plant by heating lengths of pipe with gas flames and forcing them around a die. Tube Turn Incorporated
Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, 4000 Tenth Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Downes and Cassin. The jumbled mass of wreckage in the foreground of drydock number one are the U.S. destroyers, Downes (left) and Cassin (right). The battleship in the rear is the USS Pennsylvania, 33,100 ton flagship of the Pacific Fleet, which suffered relatively light damage during the Japanese attack. The Pennsylvania was repaired shortly after the attack. Main and auxiliary machinery fittings of the Downes and Cassin are being transferred to new hulls
