This film shows tanks being built at the Chrysler Tank Arsenal in Detroit, Michigan in 1942. Tank on test track. Interior scenes of the Chrysler tank manufacturing plant. Scenes of all types of machine tools. Ring gear being machined, wheel suspension units are milled, wheels ground, gun mount gears cut, armor plate put through a punch press and drill, sprocket gears cut by an arc torch, gears heat treated and immersed in oil baths, armor plate hydraulically riveted, the tanks assembled, armament installed, and the tanks lifted from the assembly line by cranes. The tanks are tested and tank guns fired at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Scenes Include: WWII tank assembly lines, World War II plant workers, war material production.
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