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| This tank transmission cutaway is in the Sloan museum in Flint. |
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| Four views of the M18 "Hellcat" tank being built at Buick during World War II in factory #62. The larger "Sherman" tank was built at Grand Blanc Michigan just south of Flint. Tank production also went on at the Fisher #1 plant. The Hellcat used a radial aircraft engine for it's power, The transmission was completely built at Buick Flint. |
2 comments:
My name is Bob Johnston and my grandfather was the foreman in charge of the hellcat tank production.I have quite a bit of stuff like pictures of the workers.My dad gave Buick a pencil list of the workers and there assembly jobs. One of a kind type of thing.
Bob,
My dad worked in the tank plant during WW-II. His name was Robert F. (Bob) Weiss.
Got any info on him?
Stephen A. (Steve) Weiss
not to be confused with my nephew Stephen M. Weiss
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