Aircraft engine industry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Also a topic in ArchiveSpace (LOC #sh85002742)
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
A Brief History of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation [Promotional brochure], 1940
Item — Box TB.S7.001, Folder: TF.S7.B.016
Identifier: 20170176
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Sales and marketing (Promotional).Purpose: Sales and marketing.Authority: Company (Manufacturer).Scope: Company marketing brochure with numerous drawings and photographs. Traces the evolution of the company from the first days of the Wright brothers to May of 1939 when Pan American Clippers using Wright Cyclone engines "inaugurated passenger service to Europe via airplane" and Wright engines are "providing...
Dates:
Publication: 1940
Aircraft Engine Historical Society Collection
Collection
Identifier: MC-019
Scope and Contents
The AEHS collection includes material donated by AEHS Members to the Society and later to the UAH Archives and Special Collections. This includes thousands of published and manuscript documents, drawings, charts, 16mm film and 35mm film clips, aviation sounds, and emphemera. The collection as includes publications and documents donated by non-AEHS donors such as George Martin and Saverio Morea. The AEHS collection includes subjects on aviation training, aircraft research and...
Dates:
1911 - 2013
"Army-Navy "E" Award for Production Achievement to Pratt & Whitney Plant M, East Longmeadow, Mass." [Ceremony Program], 1943-05-06
Item — Box TB.S7.001, Folder: TF.S7.B.013
Identifier: 20170109
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Award ProgramPurpose: Informational.Authority: Government Military.Scope: Award program for a ceremony in which military representatives award the "E" [Excellence] Award pennant to personnel of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company's Plant M [engine plane] in East Longmeadow, Mass. Contents: This award was meant to recognize and celebrate the company and employee efforts to ramp up...
Dates:
Publication: 1943-05-06
Die Junkers-Lehrschau: eine Führung durch die Lehrschau der Junkers Flugzeug- und -Motorenwerke A.-G, Dessau (30 Jahre Junkers-Flugzeugforschung, 1910-1940) [The Junkers Show: A Guided Tour of the Junkers Aircraft and Engine Plant, Dessau (30 Years of Junkers Aircraft Research, 1910-1940)] (Second Edition), 1939
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 193, Call No.: TL 503 .J859 1939
Identifier: 20191010
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Informational).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Company (Manufacturer).NB: The book is written in German. The primary in-house company writer was A. Dresel with graphic design by B. Schütte.Scope: This book, written and published by staff of the Junkers Company, captures the history of the company, and particularly the Junkers Aircraft and Engine manufacturing plant at Dessau, Germany, from 1910 to late 1939....
Dates:
Publication: 1939
"Menasco Aircraft Engines" [Technical Sales Brochure], 1935-04
Item — Box TB.S3.001, Folder: TF.S3.B.0004 (was TBD.007)
Identifier: 20212028
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Technical Sales Brochure
Authority: Manufacturer (authoritative reference)
Contents consist of detailed information regarding 5 Menasco in-line, air-cooled, inverted aircraft engines: B4 (95 h.p.), C4 (125 h.p.), B6 (160 h.p.), C4S (150 h.p.), and the B6S (200 h.p.). Each engine is covered in 4 color-coded pages which include descriptions of each engine, technical specifications, black and white photographs and example installation drawings.
Dates:
Publication: 1935-04
The Bee-Hive (August 1945: 20th Anniversary Issue) [United Aircraft Corp. Internal Employee Newsletter], 1945-08
Item — Box TB.S7.001, Folder: TF.S7.B.012
Identifier: 20170323
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Periodical (Internal Newsletter).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Company (Manufacturer).Document Number: August 1945 (20th Anniversary Issue).Scope: Periodic newsletter written and published by the United Aircraft Corporation "...for its employees." Primarily includes aviation news, especially related to company products, as well as some internal company news.Contents:
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Dates:
Publication: 1945-08
The Bee-Hive, Vol. III (1929), Nos. 1, 8 & 9 [Pratt & Whitney Internal Employee Newsletter], 1929-03 - 1929-11
File — Box TB.S7.001, Folder: TF.S7.B.001
Identifier: 20170307
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Periodical (Internal Newsletter).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Company (Manufacturer).Document Number: Volume III (1929), Numbers 1 (March), 8 (October) and 9 (November).Scope: Monthly newsletter written and published by the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company "...for its employees." Primarily includes aviation news aviation news, especially related to company products, as well as some internal company...
Dates:
Publication: 1929-03 - 1929-11
The Bee-Hive, Vol. IV (1930), Nos. 2 through 12 [Pratt & Whitney Internal Employee Newsletter], 1930-02 - 1930-12
File — Box TB.S7.001, Folder: TF.S7.B.002
Identifier: 20170308
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Periodical (Internal Newsletter).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Company (Manufacturer).Document Number: Volume IV (1930), Numbers 2 (March) through 12 (December).Scope: Monthly newsletter written and published by the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company "...for its employees." Primarily includes aviation news, especially related to company products, as well as some internal company news....
Dates:
Publication: 1930-02 - 1930-12
The Bee-Hive, Vol. IX (1935), Nos. 1, 2, 4 thru 7 and 9 [United Aircraft Corp. Internal Employee Newsletter], 1935-01 - 1935-09
File — Box TB.S7.001, Folder: TF.S7.B.007
Identifier: 20170313
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Periodical (Internal Newsletter).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Company (Manufacturer).Document Number: Vol. IX (1935), Nos. 1 (Jan), 2 (Feb), 4 (Apr) thru 7 (Jul) and 9 (Sep).Scope: Monthly newsletter written and published by the United Aircraft Corporation "...for the employees of its subsidiaries: United Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (Chance Vought Aircraft, Hamilton Standard Propellers,...
Dates:
Publication: 1935-01 - 1935-09
The Bee-Hive, Vol. V (1931), Nos. 1 thru 4, 7, 8 & 10 [Pratt & Whitney Internal Employee Newsletter], 1931-01 - 1931-10
File — Box TB.S7.001, Folder: TF.S7.B.003
Identifier: 20170309
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Periodical (Internal Newsletter).Purpose: Informational.Authority: Company (Manufacturer).Document Number: Vol. V (1931), Nos. 1 (January) thru 4 (April, 7 (July), 8 (August) and 10 (October).Scope: Monthly newsletter written and published by the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company "...for its employees." Primarily includes aviation news, especially related to company products, as well as some internal...
Dates:
Publication: 1931-01 - 1931-10