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[Assembly Plant 1]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn." -
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[Plant 1 Assembly riveter]
"Eljay #17" written on front. -
[Plant 1 dispensary]
"Eljay #7" written on front. -
[Spot-welder]
On back of photograph: "Spot-welding a stainless-steel aircraft surface by means of post-type spot-welder, designed and built at Fleetwings, Inc. Bristol, Penna." -
[U.S. Army Douglas Dolphin Amphibian Model OA4A]
On back of photograph: "First Gov’t aircraft to have stainless steel wings. Designed, mfg. and installed by Fleetwings Inc., Bristol, PA."
Stamped on back of photograph: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese." -
[Unidentified female bowler]
Bowling Alley was located on the second floor of a building constructed by the Merchant Fleet Shipbuilding Corporation 1917.
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Fleetwings men's basketball team]
Photograph used in "Fleetwings News." Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Fleetwings employees playing basketball]
Photograph used in "Fleetwings News." Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
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[Tools used in assembly]
Woman unidentified. -
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[Plant 2 kitchen]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Recreation Center, behind Bristol High School]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Children playing baseball at Recreation Center, behind Bristol High School]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Keystone bomber LB-10, Keystone Aircraft Corp., Bristol, PA]
Twin engine, single rudder bomber, U.S. Army.
Stamped on back of photograph: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese." -
[Keystone bomber LB-10, Keystone Aircraft Corp., Bristol, PA]
Twin engine, single rudder bomber, U.S. Army.
Stamped on back of photograph: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese." -
[Bill Engle, chief test pilot (in dark trousers), standing in front of the Seabird at Fleetwings]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Plant 1 cat “Bum”]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[“American Legion” crash made at Keystone; transatlantic testing in Virginia]
Walter Bintleff bought the wreck and sold it. -
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[Henry J. Kaiser]
Other men unidentified.
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Devon Smith, Fleetwings Personnel Manager]
Fleetwings, Division Kaiser Cargo, Inc. -
[Fleetwings men's basketball]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Latecomers-softball 1944]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Fleetwings women’s basketball]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Keystone Bomber used for advertising]
Lights under lower wing, which was extended to accommodate "billboard" information.
Stamped on back of photograph: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese." -
[Fleetwings factory aerial photograph]
Fleetwings Aircraft on Radcliffe Street at the top of the photograph. The bottom of the photograph shows the small business district on Farragut Avenue in the Harriman section.
Printed 1986 -
[Seabird Plane]
Amphibian plane built at Fleetwings in Bristol in 1936.
Printed 1986 -
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[Fleetwings BT-12 Basic Training Plane of stainless steel for the U.S. Air Corps in production at the Bristol, PA plant]
Stamped on back of photograph: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese." -
[Keystone Patrician plane with National Aviation Reserve members]
On back of photograph: "Largest, Fastest, Safest 20 Passenger Air Liner of its day. 11-22-19 Mfg. by Keystone Aircraft Co. Bristol PA. Shown is the National Aviation Reserve, Queens Unit No. 1 of the National Aviation Reserve Assn., Jamaica, NY."
Stamped on back of photograph: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese." -
[Twin Engine Navy Patrol Flying Boat making first test flight passing Fleetwings, Inc. sea-plane ramp]
On back of photograph: "Plane Mfg. by Hall-Aluminum Aircraft Corp. Co. 1939."
Stamped on back of photograph: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese." -
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[From left: Unidentified, Alice McLaughlin Rooney, Betty Wetherill, unidentified, unidentified]
Alice was married to James Rooney. They had four children and lived on Pitt Avenue off of Palmer Avenue in Bristol Township. She died in 1999.
Stamped on back of photograph: "Kaiser Metal Products, Inc." -
[Fleetwings Production Control]
Al Daniels second from left.
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Zoe Earll ("Meet your reporter") Featured in "Fleetwings News" for March]
She was married to Percy Earll and they had a son R. Terry Earll. She sold her home at 709 Radcliffe Street and moved into an apartment at 314 Cedar Street in 1985 where she lived until 1995. She moved into her son's home in Virginia. She also had lived on Fillmore Street, prior to living on Radcliffe Street. At one time, she had her own beauty parlor on Mill Street and also was a secretary for Popkin's Shoes at Mill and Pond Streets. While living at 314 Cedar, which is the address of the Carter Funeral Home, she was employed as the hair dresser for the deceased.
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna."
Various newspaper clippings about Earll attached to back of photograph, dated March 1945 and August 6, 2000. -
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[Ten year pin-employee Joe Maguire, Jesse Burke, Nelson Simon]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[“Suggestion Box” Fleetwings Personnel Department]
Far right: Phil Sheys, Thelma Kalipos, Secretary.
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Fleetwings Engineering Department]
From left: L.C. Werden, unidentified, Mr. Wenger, "Perks," Bruno Passetti. -
["Sports"--Fleetwings Jive Bombers jazz band concert]
From left: Wally Strang, personnel manager, Mr. Alexander on right with necktie out of jacket.
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Engineering Plant 1]
Guy Nonini standing with glass, Bill Engel far right.
On back of photograph: "File copy, Eljay Photo Service, 42 W. 48 St., NY City." -
[Plant 1 guests]
Frank De Ganahl- far left, Russel Stanton- third from left. -
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"Fleetwing's Plant #3--in 1940's"
Front reads: "Formerly the 'Corona Leather Works.' Now Keystone Lighting Co. Beaver Street and Route 13 across from De Grand Diner. Established 1889 by Boston capitalist one year before Steel Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry (1890). Please note chimney and water tanks which are no longer there."
Clifford Anderson was transferred to Bristol from Massachusetts in 1889 to establish the Corona Leather Works in this building. In 1906, the Bristol plant broke from the Boston firm and the Bristol Patent Leather Works was formed. Anderson became its first president. He was also president of the Bristol Trust Company and on the board of directors of the Farmers National Bank. Anderson was Burgess of Bristol from 1917-1943. His home at 1002 Radcliffe Street is now the Wade Funeral Home. -
[Fleetwings employees playing baseball]
People unidentified. Believed to be workers from Fleetwings. The company had baseball teams during World War II. -
[BT-12 plane with pilot]
"Made parts for these planes" written on back of photograph. -
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[X shop, supervisors]
Jack Keenan-second from left.
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna."