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[Fleetwings event with Colonel Hawkins, speaker]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Plant 2 opening]
Stamped on back: "Prints by Prinz Otto C. Prinz, 1115 Anchor Street, Del. 0564, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." -
[Sparrows recreation field, women's basketball team]
Helen Van Alan shooting. Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn." -
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[Plant 1 assembly line]
Typed note pasted to back of photograph: "Women have taken over men’s jobs to the extent of completely manning on final assembly line in the factory." -
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[Bond drawing]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn." -
[Fleetwings employees bowling]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn." -
"7th War Loan Drive, Kaiser Cargo, Inc., Fleetwings Division" [billboard]
Sign reads: "Let's put the heat on, the boys over there sure did!"
Russell Stanton was Union President. He is on the right in the light jacket. -
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[Welcoming back fliers from WWII at Plant 3]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn." -
[Plant 1 lady guards]
Women unidentified. -
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[Plant 1 lady guard]
Women unidentified.
Group called the "Driverettes" (information from "Fleetwings News" December 1943). -
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"Fleetwings Gruman Leading Edge Gang"
Sign held by man to left of American flag reads "Hitler's coffin." -
[Fleetwings employee Madge Pintin]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn." -
[Fleetwings employee Bette Fisher]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penn." -
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[Fleetwings employee and "Fleetwings Magazine" reporter Dot Yoder]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna."
Biography from "Fleetwings Magazine" article (dated April 1945) included on back of photograph. -
[Two Fleetwings employees, woman on left Jeannette C. Keich]
Written on back of photograph: "Ed: I’ll always remember those grand talks we had together. Best wishes to one of the nicest men I worked with. Jeannette C Keich 'Keichy.'"
Man unidentified. -
[Louis DiCicco, janitor]
"Owner of cat."
Biography of DiCicco included in clipping (dated January 1945) included on back of photograph. -
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[Jig transfer car]
On back: "Just as soon as the portable jig arrives at line’s end it is rolled onto a transfer car and returned via auxiliary tracks, to the assembly line’s start ---- ready for another trip. Transfer cars at each end of the line facilitate a rapid return" [information typed on a piece of paper attached to photo]. "Courtesy of Fleetwings, Inc." -
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[Building number 2 on Green Lane]
Top secret area at competitor of Grummon Aircraft. Mock-up of XBQ2A (Experiment Bomber) 2A is power plant on aircraft. Aircraft testing Department. -
[Keystone Aircraft and aircraft mechanics of the Assembly Department]
Keystone preceded Fleetwing Aircraft. Third from left standing is Frank Deluca. Kneeling second from left is Danny Graco. Others unidentified. -
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[Ground breaking Plant 2]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna." -
[Former Fleetwings secretaries from the 1940s sharing photographs]
From left: Paul Swift, Ann Swift (former Fleetwings secretary), Charlotte Landreth Melville (former Fleetwings secretary), Andrew Liese, Charlotte Gade (former Fleetwings secretary), and Carol Mitchener. -
[Former Fleetwing secretaries from the personnel department during the 1940s]
From left: Ann Swift, Charlotte Landreth Melville, and Charlotte Gade. -
[De Ganahl at sale of plant]
Frank De Ganahl, third from left. Carl De Ganahl, standing with topcoat on right. -
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[Fleetwings Administration Building]
Marks on front of photograph are cropping designations for publication. -
[Built for U.S. Army Air Corps. Type- LB-7 improved on the LB 5- 5A & 6]
Next type picture not available slight changes- type LB-10, B 3A-4A 5A y B4-5-6 Single Roller etc.
Color: Army standard #22 O.D., Wings- #4 yellow. Power Unit- two 5v5 H.P Wright "Cyclones" Air cooled radial.
Note- some engines were Wright "Cyclones" and some were Pratt + Whitney "Hornets"
Crew- 5 men -
[Original by Loening built in quantity in Bristol]
Color: hull-Loening red, casket- silver stripe, wings-silver and orange. Type amphibian, Power Hvo HP Wright Air cooled radial, commercial. -
[Art Schick, Procurement Supervisor]
Stamped on back: "Kaiser Cargo Incorporated, Bristol, Penna."
Photograph was used in "Fleetwings News" February edition, page 4. "This is Fleetwings (a) layout to come," written on back. -
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[Fleetwings F-101 Roosevelt Field, Long Island]
Photos used in an article for "Skyways Magazine #46" April '98.
Stamped on back: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese." -
[Fleetwings F-101 Roosevelt Field, Long Island]
Photos used in an artcile for "Skyways Magazine #46" April, '98.
Stamped on back: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese." -
[Keystone Airyacht. Originally designed at Loening Aero Engineer Corp. in service in China etc. built in Bristol]
Color: hull-silver + green, wings- silver. Type: amphibian. Power Unit- 5v5 HP Wright “Cyclone” air corp commercial radial. -
[Keystone Patrician, 20 passenger Tri-Motor Transport Model (discontinued)]
Color: wings- yellow, fuselage- green. Power Unit- 3 5v5 HP Wagner "Cyclones." -
[F-101 plane]
Stamped on back: "From the collection of Henry Liese." -
[F-101 first stainless steel wing]
Photograph was taken on Long Island.
Stamped on back: "From the collection of Henry A. Liese." -
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[Keystone Patrician plane]
This was the largest, fastest, safest airliner of its day. Keystone Tri-Motored Patrician was owned by the Wright Aeronautical Corporation. Manufactured by Keystone Aircraft Company, Bristol, PA. 20 passenger.
Stamped on back: "From the Collection of Henry Liese."
Two newspaper clippings are attached to the back:
1. “50 years ago today” a new speed record for transport planes, over 151 miles per hour, was set by the 20-passenger “Patrician” over a measured course on the outskirts of Bristol.
2. “Remember When.. 50 years ago today” Fire seriously damaged the gigantic 20-passenger plane, “Patrician,” of the Keystone Aircraft Corporation as it stood part way into the hanger on the landing field in Bristol.