Ford Motor Company aircraft literature, blueprints, and photographs collection, 1938-1945.

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Ford Motor Company aircraft literature, blueprints, and photographs collection, 1938-1945.

Ford Motor Company aircraft literature, blueprints, and photographs collection, 1938-1945.

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The Ford Motor Company Aircraft Literature, Blueprints, and Photographs collection consists of four series. Ford Motor Copmany Material series, 1941-1944 (0.4 cubic ft.), includes correspondence and general letters from P. A. Weyl who worked in Ford Motor Company's Aircraft Engineering Department during World War II and was an engineering liaison with various government production offices. Also included is a drafting room standards manual and an engine testing manual. The Aircraft Product and Parts and Service Literature series, 1938-1945 (2 cubic ft. and 1 oversize box), includes catalogs, manuals, and promotional brochures from aircraft manufacturers and parts suppliers covering myriad parts, assemblies, and subassemblies used in manufacturing and repairing aircraft engines. The Publications and Technical Papers series, 1939-1945 (1 cubic ft.), includes aircraft industry technical publications, scientific journal articles, and test reports covering a wide range of technical issues specific to the design and production of aircraft and aircraft engines. The Blueprints and Photographs series, (4.8 cubic ft.) circa 1942-1945, includes carious sized design drawings for megneto parts and assemblies produced by the Scintella Magneto Company, a subsidiary of Bendix Aviation Corporation, during World War II and photographs from the Pratt & Whitney R2800 Engine Parts Manual, 1942-1945. The catalog material consists of balck and white photographs and photostats used to illustrate the Pratt & Whitney R2800 engine service manual.

7.2 cubic ft. and 1 oversize box.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center