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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the pump double inlet pipe for a Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2). Some further details of the engine are visible as well. |
| Date: | 07 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of a Thaden T-2 parked outdoors. Manufactured by the Thaden Metal Aircraft Company of San Francisco, California. The com... |
| Date: | 07 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Right side profile view of the front of a Comet 7-D air-cooled radial piston engine and wooden propeller on a Thaden T-2 aircraft. A design of the Comet En... |
| Date: | 07 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Left side profile view of a 7-cylinder Comet air-cooled radial piston engine and propeller on a Kreider-Reisner C-4 Challenger aircraft. A design of the Co... |
| Date: | 07 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Left side profile view of a Comet 7-RA air-cooled radial piston engine and a wooden Westinghouse Micarta propeller on a Sierra BLW-2 aircraft. A design of ... |
| Date: | 07 22 1929 |
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| Description: | View towards the front of a Sierra BLW-2 aircraft, fitted with a Comet 7-RA air-cooled radial piston engine and a wooden Westinghouse Micarta propeller. Mo... |
| Date: | 07 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Left side view of the 7-cylinder Comet engine fitted to the nose of an aircraft under construction. The fuselage is standing on the factory floor. A work t... |
| Date: | 07 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of the front of a Sierra BLW-2 aircraft, fitted with a Comet 7-RA air-cooled radial piston engine and a wooden Westinghouse Micarta propeller... |
| Date: | 07 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Front view of a trimotor Bach 3-CT-4 manufactured by the Bach Aircraft Company of Santa Monica, California. The company was formed in 1927 by L. Morton Bac... |
| Date: | 07 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left towards a trimotor Bach 3-CT-4 manufactured by the Bach Aircraft Company of Santa Monica, California. The company was fo... |
| Date: | 07 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Crankcase for the 7-cylinder Comet engine that shows how it was built in two sections united by seven through bolts as well as by seven cylinder flanges. |
| Date: | 01 24 1930 |
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| Description: | View from front of a 7-cylinder Comet airplane engine undergoing assembly. The engine is mounted to a wooden stand, located in a brick manufacturing buildi... |
| Date: | 06 01 1929 |
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| Description: | Two 7-cylinder Comet engines assembled with cams are set up on a factory floor. Supported in opposing engine stands vertically and horizontally, they are u... |
| Date: | 01 24 1930 |
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| Description: | View towards a factory man working at a plant that assembled Comet engines for aircraft. The man is standing at a desk fitted with instruments in a narrow ... |
| Date: | 01 24 1930 |
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| Description: | View of two factory men at work desks at a plant that assembled Comet aircraft engines. They are sitting on wooden stools between Korn scales in a narrow b... |
| Date: | 07 26 1929 |
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| Description: | Straight-on view of the front crankcase of a 7-D Comet aircraft engine on a stand. It was made in front of a sheer backdrop inside a factory, with windows ... |
| Date: | 08 29 1929 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from across a road towards a factory building at the Aircraft Engine Corporation located on 9601 Russet Street, Los Angeles, California.... |
| Date: | 11 07 1929 |
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| Description: | Interior of a factory floor, with several large machines for manufacturing aircraft engines under the skylights. A Gisholt lathe is prominently pictured se... |
| Date: | 11 07 1929 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a factory floor. Machinery by Whitcomb Manufacturing Company is in the right foreground, and a Comet 7-cylinder aircraft engine is in the ... |
| Date: | 11 1929 |
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| Description: | Interior of a factory floor, with several large machines for manufacturing aircraft engines, including Landis, Whitcomb Manufacturing Company and Gisholt. ... |
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