Doc Windshadow Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 These 7 hard bound books were produced by the Chrysler Corp during and right after WW2 and sent to their stock holders to explain what the company is up to. While a lot of the info (esp in the first half of each is padded out with corporate Biographical info of little interest today (unless you are doing a family tree and have relatives that worked there at the time) there is much I found of interest as well as some neat color illustrations of the period To start with I recommend either the last link which is mostly on Ammo production at an Evansvile Dodge plant the was converted to produce over 3 billion rounds of .45 APC between 43 and 45 and the 3rd link to the Tanks they built.... Well I found them interesting A Job "Thought Impossible" - The story of the Chrysler-Sperry Gyro-CompassRADAR: The Great Detective; 1946 "Tanks are Mighty Fine Things"; 1946 Great Engines and Great Planes; 1947 Secret: Chrysler's Role in the development of the Atomic Bomb; 1947 Engineering... Mobilized; 1949 Bullets by the Billion; http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/45Impossible/index.htm'>http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/45Impossible/index.htm http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/46Radar/index.htm'>http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/46Radar/index.htm http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/46Tanks/index.htm'>http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/46Tanks/index.htm http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/47Planes/index.htm'>http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/47Planes/index.htm http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/47Secret/index.htm'>http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/47Secret/index.htm http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/49Mobilized/index.htm'>http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/49Mobilized/index.htm http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/46Ammo/index.htm'>http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/46Ammo/index.htm OH yes the home page where I found this stuff http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1945/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 The M3 was my favorite tank after I saw Bogart in Sahara. I don't know how it's possible for a vehicle to look goofy and deadly at the same time but the Grant fills the bill imho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 The M3 was my favorite tank after I saw Bogart in Sahara. I don't know how it's possible for a vehicle to look goofy and deadly at the same time but the Grant fills the bill imho. Powered by a Wright Continental radial engine, which I always thought was interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Well, now! I read the first four so far. I'll save the rest for a later day, but thanks, Doc. That was truly educational and entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 OSHA would be stunned into catatonic paralysis. Almost not eye or hearing protection, few gloves, long sleeves and baggy shirts, women in dresses and skirts, chemicals, mercury, lead, etc without proper protection for the handlers, almost no sign of dust protection or breathing masks, moving machinery without guards. If we were put into a similar situation today all the stupid regulations...OSHA and others... plus every other blockade to production know to man would make it almost impossible to ramp up a company to manufacture so much as a peanut butter sandwich in such a short time and in such large numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Windshadow Posted September 7, 2011 Author Share Posted September 7, 2011 I had the same thoughts as I read these and these folks were in many cases our generations parents.... though I guess there are those that would say yes that is why they had lifetimes 10 to 15 years shorter than we are enjoying But there needs to be a balance and if your country is fighting for its life and for freedom for a large part of the world than short term reductions in health and safety regulations would seem to be prudent Glad you enjoyed them it seems to me that most major corporations must have produced publications like these and it would be fun to search them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 I saw something similar about the LSTs being built in Evansville, Indiana. They made a huge number of LSTs there, many out of concrete, and the CITY earned an E flag for its joint war effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Windshadow Posted September 8, 2011 Author Share Posted September 8, 2011 Ans I have a Dim memory of see in one from a typewrite company that shifted over 100% to make munitions only to have to retool a part of the operation back to typewriters due to the huge number of the needed by the military for reports at every level Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 I saw something similar about the LSTs being built in Evansville, Indiana. They made a huge number of LSTs there, many out of concrete, and the CITY earned an E flag for its joint war effort. Evansville was the largest inland producer of LSTs. They also made P-47Ds there. Evansville History: From the city's website. Settled by pioneer immigrants some 200 years ago, the city of Evansville is situated on a gentle horseshoe bend on the Ohio River. The first cabin built in Evansville was built in 1809, home of George Miller. As testament to the Ohio's grandeur, the early French explorers named it La Belle Riviere ("The Beautiful River"). Before the pioneers, Evansville was home first to an ancient community of Native Americans called the Mississippians. Evansville was laid out in 1817, and was named in honor of Robert Morgan Evans (1783-1844), one of its founders, who was an officer under then General William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812. It soon became a thriving commercial town, with an extensive river trade, was incorporated in 1819, and received a city charter in 1847. The completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal, which connected the Great Lakes to the Ohio River, greatly accelerated the city's growth. Evansville's first railroad company, Evansville & Crawfordsville Railroad, was built in 1850. The first bridge to cross the Ohio River and connect Evansville with Henderson, Kentucky was built in 1932. After the devastating Ohio River Flood of 1937, the city established the Evansville-Vanderburgh Levee Authority District which built a system of earth levees, concrete walls, and pumping stations designed to protect the city. During World War II, Evansville was the largest inland producer of LSTs (Tank Landing Ships). Evansville also produced a specific line of the P-47 thunderbolt known as the P-47Ds. The type of plane was also produced in Farmingdale on Long Island, New York. The Evansville craft were given the suffix "-Ra" while the Farmingdale were given the suffix "-Re". Evansville produced a total 110 P-47s and 167 LSTs. Roughly 19,500 people worked on the building of LSTs in Evansville during the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 OSHA would be stunned into catatonic paralysis. Almost not eye or hearing protection, few gloves, long sleeves and baggy shirts, women in dresses and skirts, chemicals, mercury, lead, etc without proper protection for the handlers, almost no sign of dust protection or breathing masks, moving machinery without guards. If we were put into a similar situation today all the stupid regulations...OSHA and others... plus every other blockade to production know to man would make it almost impossible to ramp up a company to manufacture so much as a peanut butter sandwich in such a short time and in such large numbers. And male machine operators wearing TIES - must have been fingers, arms and heads flyin' all over the plant... Imagine over a million rounds a month test fired on the range..... LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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