Curtiss Aeroplane Company Photographs

#1 Exp. Assembly Dept..jpg
#2 Strut Dept..jpg
#3 Shipping Dept..jpg
#4 Fuselage Assembly.jpg
#5 Covering-Upholstery Dept..jpg
Assembly Department, motors being put into machines [10].jpg
Final Assembly [12].jpg
Final Assembly, Flying boats in background - N.J. training machines in foreground [11].jpg
Final Assembly, right [13].jpg
Flying Boat Assembly [9].jpg
Making Pistons for Motors [1].jpg
Motor Assembly [6].jpg
Motor Assembly in left foreground [5].jpg
Motor Inspection Department [3].jpg
Motor Parts factory [4].jpg
Packing and Shipping Department [14].jpg
Testing a Motor [7].jpg
Wing Doping and painting room [8].jpg

Title

Curtiss Aeroplane Company Photographs

Description

Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (later Curtiss-Wright Corporation) was based in Hammondsport and Bath, NY until the rise in military orders required the expansion of manufacturing operations into the city of Buffalo, along with its headquarters. By the start of World War I, the company was the preeminent manufacturer of airplanes in the United States, with three factories in Buffalo and 18,000 employees.

Source

Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company

Publisher

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)

Rights

Digital image copyright 2017 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.

Relation

Digital Collections of the B&ECPL

Type

Still image

Format

image/jpeg

Language

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