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Studebaker assembly line, Loma Vista Avenue, Los Angeles. 1936

Description: Workers inspect nearly completed automobiles at the Studebaker assembly plant on Loma Vista in Los Angeles. One man kneels by the rear driver's side tire with a pencil and clipboard. Three other employees work on the vehicle behind him, which has the hood and driver's side front door open.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1936
Call number: photCL Whitt 2595 ; Whitt neg. 2653
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Studebaker assembly line, Loma Vista Avenue, Los Angeles. 1936

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Employees work under the hood of an automobile at the Studebaker assembly plant on Loma Vista in Los Angeles. The vehicle seems to be almost completely assembled.

photCL Whitt 2594 ; Whitt neg. 2654

Studebaker assembly line, Loma Vista Avenue, Los Angeles. 1936

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Workers lower an engine into an automobile frame at the Studebaker assembly plant on Loma Vista in Los Angeles. The engine is suspended from an overhead pulley which one of the men is controlling. The frame of the vehicle is on an assembly line with other vehicle frames in front of and behind it.

photCL Whitt 2593 ; Whitt neg. 2656

Studebaker assembly plant, Loma Vista Avenue, Los Angeles. 1936

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Two employees work on automobile frames in the Studebaker assembly plant on Loma Vista in Los Angeles. One of the frames is vertical, with the front of the vehicle at the ceiling. The other is elevated on a platform that one of the workers is raising.

photCL Whitt 2596 ; Whitt neg. 2652

Studebaker assembly line, Loma Vista Avenue, Los Angeles. 1936

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Workers guide an automobile frame above an assembly line at the Studebaker assembly plant on Loma Vista in Los Angeles. The frame is suspended from a pulley on an overhead track.

photCL Whitt 2592 ; Whitt neg. 2651

Studebaker assembly plant, Loma Vista Avenue, Los Angeles. 1936

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A man in a suit stands next to automobile frames at the Studebaker assembly plant on Loma Vista in Los Angeles. There are several rows of the frames, which are stored vertically outside.

photCL Whitt 2597 ; Whitt neg. 2655

Assembly line, Ford Motor Company, Long Beach. 1935

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One of the final stages of assembly at the Ford Motors Company plant in Long Beach. The automobile in front is coming down a ramp from the assembly line and has one man sitting in the driver's seat and another holding the driver's side door open. Men are working on other vehicles in line behind it.

photCL Whitt 2488 ; Whitt neg. 2626

Studebaker assembly line, Loma Vista Avenue, Los Angeles. 1936

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