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Tanks on assembly line at Pacific Car and Foundry factory, Renton, 1943

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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.

This 1943 photo shows a turret being added to a tank on a PACCAR factory assembly line. During World War II, the company manufactured products needed by the military.

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.
ID Number: 1986.5.6759.7
Date: 1943
Physical Description: 1 acetate negative : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.
Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, 1986.5.6759.7
Copyright: All Rights Reserved