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Buick Aviation Plant - Propeller Test Stand - January, 1942

8" x 10" Black & White Buick Motor Division photograph. January, 1942 - Harlow H. Curtice and various Buick and Army Air Corps officials inspect huge propeller test stand where Buick-built Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp radial aviation engines, in volume production as of the date of this photograph, are given a variety of inspection and engineering test runs.  In the photo, from left to right, C.N. Ofield, Chief Inspector, D.E. Williams, Operating Manager, Harry Golden, Assistant Chief Engineer, Harlow H. Curtice, President and General Manager, Buick Motor Division, I.H. Larkin, Assistant Manufacturing Manager, Major E.H. Bowman, Resident Army Air Corps Representative, O.W. Young, Executive Assistant to Mr. Curtice, R.L. Kyser, Air Corps Inspection, and Charles A. Chayne, Buick Chief Engineer.

Item Number: 00847
Author: Buick Motor Division
Type: World War II
Donor or Source: David M. Landow
Cost of Reproduction: $7.70
Cost of Original Document: There are no originals of this item available.
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