Vintage work crew photos

**Fredob** · Jul 18, 2020, 02:10 PM

Wow! Very impressive.

**Jon** · Jul 20, 2020, 04:09 PM

Photographers and camera equipment lined up in preparation for a nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, 1946.

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**marksbug** · Jul 20, 2020, 05:17 PM

redundancy is the air force's way. and it usually works. I wonder if they remembered to take the pics....

**McDesign** · Jul 20, 2020, 07:03 PM

I suspect that they just heard "Bikini", and grabbed all the cameras they had . . .

Forrest in Atlanta

**Toolmaker51** · Jul 20, 2020, 07:11 PM

Originally Posted by McDesign

I suspect that they just heard "Bikini", and grabbed all the cameras they had . . .

Forrest in Atlanta

Lol, but the test predates the swimwear...by only a few months. Word 'Bikini' was used as marketing hook to current events.
Think about it, no different than everything now seems connected to COVID.

**marksbug** · Jul 20, 2020, 10:33 PM

what a boost crona got from this!!!

**Jon** · Jul 23, 2020, 03:24 PM

Workers at a Rolls Royce factory lowering the crankshaft assembly into the crank case of a Merlin aircraft engine, England, 1942.

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**Ralphxyz** · Jul 23, 2020, 03:39 PM

Strange the front connecting rods look shorter than the middle ones.

**IntheGroove** · Jul 23, 2020, 07:17 PM

The crank journals are at different throws...

**Beserkleyboy** · Jul 23, 2020, 08:32 PM

Can you explain how/why? Thanks very much...and yes, I'm jealous of your spot at the lake...we camped at Incline Beach from 1954 onwards...cheers

Jim on a glorious sunny 18° winter day