Many Americans will soon have their first opportunity to enjoy genuinely low cost transportation with the arrival of the low price 1951 Kaiser. This is the automobile that was conceived by mandate of the motoring public and which became a reality...
An experimental train that is packed full of mechanical marvels, new as tomorrow interior decoration and many postwar features for the comfort and safety of passengers, has just been launched by General Motors, its designer, for a six months...
An experimental train that is packed full of mechanical marvels, new as tomorrow interior decoration and many postwar features for the comfort and safety of passengers, has just been launched by General Motors, its designer, for a six months...
Russell Patterson painting an advertising illustration in his studio in the Heckscher Building, NY. Mr. Patterson does big display ads which appear in monthly periodicals, giving much of his time to automobile ads. He is one of the foremost display...
Florence, Italy- A vase being painted its final design before going to the firing kiln. This work is often doen by young artists who have received instructions fromt heir father, as many as three generations working in the same factory at one time.
At the lumber yard of Church E. Gates Company, 152 Street and East River, NY, there is a system of roller and belt conveyors which take planks to all parts of the place. Here, the lumber comes from ships via a line of rollers. It is shoved off the...
Schenectady NY- How the M-7 tank killers built here are now spearheading the Allied rout of Rommel was described here today by Major General Russell L. Maxwell, Commander of US armed forces in the Middle East who directed US North African Military...
A seashore resort on the Atlantic Ocean, includes a two and one half mile stretch of beach, a 13, 000 foot long boardwalk and a nationally famous amusement park. Roller coasters, tunnel rides, fun houses, shooting galleries and hot dog stands are...
County committee of the AAA, representing the War Food Administration, have arranged for around 20 auctions this fall to help the Defense Plant Corporation move to farmers used tools, equipment and supplies that could not be moved successfully...
Charles Duryea in car that won the first race in America. Charles Duryea, hailed by many as the inventor of the automobile, is show in the "Buggyaut" in which he won the first race ever held in America.
Motors on gravity roll conveyors, of many types and sizes, awaiting production processes in New Industrial Motor Division of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company at East Pittsburgh, Pa.
Throngs herded in front of the Sub-Treasury building across the street from the New York Stock Exchange during the worst crash in the history of Wall Street. Extra details of police were called out to keep crowd, many of whom faced ruin, in check.
Television industry; Product inspections; Testing;
A Kinescope tube, on which the image is reproduced in a television receiver, undergoes one of the many tests it must pass before leaving the RCA Victor television factory.
Twenty-one year old Beatrice Vienna and over 450 of her follow employees now ride bicycles to work at Vega Aircraft Corporation to save essential rubber for the war effort. Married to aircraft worker, Art Vienna, Beatrice is one of the many women...
New York NY- This scene at R.H. Macys is typcial of what is going on in all the Metropolitan department stores. The crowds were so dense that it was necessary to rope off the section and permit so many through at a time.
The Jones and Laughlin mills, one of the largest in the vicinity of Pittsburgh. These and many other big steel mills throughout the United States are working 24 hours a day.
For the first time in almost four years, new passenger cars emerged from Studebaker assembly lines, today. The company had been ready to produce automobiles for 13 weeks, but a labor dispute in the plant of a major parts supplier held up...
Air freight handled by the 16 scheduled trunk airlines during the first six months of this year was up an estimated 156 percent over the same period in 1947, a total of 30,723,010 freight ton miles as compared with 11,984,214. This trailer-truck,...
Santa Monica CA- Employees of Douglas Aircraft Companys plant here studies one of many material conservation posters erected throughout the shop. That they are taking the lesson to heart is evidenced by tremendous reductions in the percentage of...
Designed for the growing number of middle income buyers, the Mercury car line was introduced in the fall of 1938 effectively filling Ford Motor Companys product lineup between the Ford at the popular priced end of the sale and the Lincoln Zephyr at...
