The Pacific Car and Foundry Company got its start in Seattle in the early 1900s building railroad cars for the logging industry. The company expanded quickly and, in 1905, bought land in Renton for a new plant. Now known as PACCAR, the company has factories in five countries, making heavy-duty trucks and other vehicles, railcars, and mining equipment. During World War ll, Pacific Car manufactured products needed by the military, including Sherman tanks and components for Boeing B-17 bombers. Pacific Car was able to cast almost all the parts for the tanks at its own foundry.

Handwritten on sleeve: RENTON, Wash., Pacific Car and Foundry Co.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): August 12, 1943.