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Maj. General Harry C. Ingles Inspecting Battery Production

Date: 01 17 1945
Description: Maj. Gen. Harry C. Ingles, Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, watching two women make batteries at Ray-O-Vac, or RMR (Ruben Mallory Ray-O-Vac).
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Major Gen. Harry C. Ingles Inspecting Batteries

Date: 01 17 1945
Description: Maj. Gen. Harry C. Ingles, Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, inspecting batteries at Ray-O-Vac, or RMR (Ruben Mallory Ray-O-Vac).
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Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac Workers Inspecting Batteries

Date: 01 10 1945
Description: Lorraine Gray in the storage room inspecting some of the more than 300,000 batteries made in one day at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division...
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Employee Receiving Paycheck

Date: 1945
Description: Lorraine Gray collecting her pay in cash at the paymaster's office at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac located in the 1400 ...
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Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac Factory Floor

Date: 04 05 1945
Description: RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) factory floor showing workers making batteries.
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Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac Personnel

Date: 04 04 1945
Description: People signing up to work at RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac), a battery manufacturer.
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Robert M. Carnes and Jack Young

Date: 05 02 1945
Description: Robert M. Carnes, on the right, expediter at RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac), 1400 East Washington Avenue, with foreman Jack Young.
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Loading Boxes from French Battery Company onto Railroad Cars

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Description: Two men loading boxes of batteries onto railroad cars with a conveyor belt. French Battery later became Ray-O-Vac Corporation.

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