Plane - The world's fastest production line 1942 Tea Towel

Colourized photo from 1942 Original Title: Miscellaneous collection of photos of aircraft production Photographer: Unknown Location: Downey, CA This is the Vultee Aircraft factory from around 1942-1943, and this part of the factory, only makes the Vultee A-31/A-35(V-72) Vengeance for Great Britain. In its day it was considered the world's fastest production line. Vultee was the first company to build aircraft on a powered assembly line, it was also the first to use women workers in production line positions. In 1943, Consolidated and Vultee merged, creating the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Coporation, populary known as convair. The Vultee A-31 Vengeance was an American dive bomber used in World War II. However they didn't actually use these in the US, they were made for and operated as a front-line aircraft by the British Royal Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force, and the Indian Air Force in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific. They remained in service till 1945.