Here in the Boston area, we have several plants, which during WWII,
were huge. Among them are the Watertown Arsenal, Boston and Portsmouth
naval Shipyards, General Electric Co, Riverworks (Lynn, MA) . All employed
tens of thousand workers at their peak years.
These type of facilities were spread over many acres, and commonly
employed various types of "vehicles" to get batchs of parts, tools, etc.
around from building to building, storage to job site. Pick a favorite type
of activity, and restore it to that.
Some of these plants are just now being broken up, and you may find
that there is still a company archive on site, with WWII era photos. In
Beverly, MA, the United Shoe machinery plant (Heavy shoe making
capability, including a foundry on site) was recently sold off to be
redeveloped as an office park. The now owners found the archives still in
place, and had the good sense to preserve them. It appears that they
contain photos of rare armoured cars prototypes, among other materiel. Yu
may be surprised what may be found this way.
Boeing should have been a major user of all sorts of interesting
vehicles. Do they have an archive open for research?? Now is the time to
contact retired employee groups, and the numbers of WWII era vets from the
defense plants are shrinking as fast as their service veteran brothers.
Nelson Dionne
Salem, MA
MVCC #411
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