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| Title | Men assembling buses at Pacific Car and Foundry factory, Renton, July 13, 1939 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | 1939 |
| Caption | 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.
In this photo, taken in 1939, workmen in the Pacific Car and Foundry Company assemble metal bus bodies. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Pacific Car & Foundry ints. - Western Agency 7/13/39.
Caption by MOHAI staff. |
| Subjects | Buses--Washington (State)--Renton; Laborers--Washington (State)--Renton; Factories--Washington (State)--Renton; Pacific Car and Foundry Company (Renton, Wash.) |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Renton |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.13326.1 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 safety film negative: b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | 147738 |
