Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run (LOC)
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When: 01 January 1939
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Hollem, Howard R.,, photographer.
Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run
[between 1941 and 1945]
1 transparency : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Photo shows the Willow Run manufacturing plant, run by the Ford Motor Company near Ypsilanti, Michigan, which made the B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945
Airplane industry
Engines
Transport planes
United States--Michigan--Willow Run
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection Lot 12002 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a55002
Call Number: LC-USW36-472
Source: Flickr Commons
Views: 66797
Installing one of the 4 motors on the transport plane at Willow Run
[between 1941 and 1945]
1 transparency : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Photo shows the Willow Run manufacturing plant, run by the Ford Motor Company near Ypsilanti, Michigan, which made the B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945
Airplane industry
Engines
Transport planes
United States--Michigan--Willow Run
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection Lot 12002 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a55002
Call Number: LC-USW36-472
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Owner: The Library of CongressSource: Flickr Commons
Views: 66797
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levon72us
Is this the final paint color? Or just some kind of primer kote?
enfield249
No, it's a zinc dichromate primer. On the interiors of it was often a pea green color. Quite toxic I think , but good a protecting the metal.
kirktalon
This series of pictures are B-24 Bombers and I think at this point in the process, we are seeing the final color of that front cowling as it is called. Lots of these planes went out the door with bare metal on the exterior parts. I could be wrong.
pete.moss
Greenhorns: In all actuality, WWII planes' paint jobs final touch were often applied with "Kilroy was here," or some such personalized, decompensating brush stroke. 10-4, over and out. Pete Moss musicians, please to be making the noises, now.
Bbrezo
Airplane Engines now replaced by Jet Engines..the latest news has been about "missing parts"..or installing "broken" parts..//??//War&Peace.
Enric Martinez
Well, in this case a good alternative title would have been "Chicks doing a bomber"... Would have been kind cool to work in one of these factories with so many girls running around w/o a guy. ;)
Lauren_Murray
wow! so what they always talked about in history class (women taking over industry jobs) really did happen to the scale which it was proclaimed to be! I now have been made a believer!
g.asher
The Willow Run, Michigan location was a factory owned by Ford Motor Company, which built Consolidated B-24 'Liberators' under license. Ford's long experience with assembly line techniques meant that, according to mechanics who maintained them, the Ford-built B-24s tended to be a higher quality product than their Consolidated-built counterparts. The yellow chromate primer seen here would have received an Olive Drab over Neutral Gray camouflage job; natural metal finish aircraft would not have carried this primer on the external surfaces.
Howard33
About those engines . . . Most aircraft engines used in WWII were radials. That means there were odd numbers of cylinders in a circle. Usually 7 or 9. For heavy bombers the engine often had as many a 4 banks of cylinders stacked for totals up to 36 cylinders turning one propeller shaft. And that is only one of four engines. I once flew in a C97, which is the cargo version of the B29 bomber. The crew told me that aircraft was powered by 156 cylinders. The B24 engine is probably similar.