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Car Assembly

May 10, 1918

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Car Assembly
  • Title
  • Car Assembly
  • Date
  • May 10, 1918
  • Identifier
  • ARBA13UA
  • Description
  • The instructor in the back of the picture put the differential in place the night before wrong side up to test his students. The students were then required to remove it to find why the truck was not running correctly. Beginning on April 11, 1918, the University instituted a training program for automobile and gas engine mechanics. Seven barracks that could house 1,000, a mess hall that could seat 2,000, an administrative building and the Y.M.C.A. Hospitality House were built on the hill above O'Hara Street. Within six months, 2,200 men were being trained.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • University of Pittsburgh
    World War, 1914-1918
    Liberty Truck (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Automobiles
    Students
    Laboratories
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs, 1884-present
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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