B-24 Bomber Assemblies Being Loaded Into a Trailer, Willow Run Bomber Plant, circa 1943
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Not every B-24 bomber built at Ford Motor Company's Willow Run plant left the facility as a completed airplane. Some 1,800 bombers were sent as partially assembled kits to Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth, Texas, or Douglas Aircraft in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The components for each plane were packed into two specially designed semi-trailers for transport to these final assembly plants.
Not every B-24 bomber built at Ford Motor Company's Willow Run plant left the facility as a completed airplane. Some 1,800 bombers were sent as partially assembled kits to Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth, Texas, or Douglas Aircraft in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The components for each plane were packed into two specially designed semi-trailers for transport to these final assembly plants.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1943
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.694
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8.25 in
Width: 10 in
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