Transportation system for Minuteman Missile unveiled
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Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Woods, Jon
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated April 6, 1961 partially reads, "An emplacement system to carry the Air Force Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile to its underground launching site and then lower it into position was unveiled Wednesday in North Hollywood...the company that developed and built the system, the Bendix-Pacific division of Bendix Corp., announced it had received a $1 million government contract to build five more. It was the first time the system, designed to provide Minuteman with complete mobility, had been shown publicly." Col. James H. Foster, left, and Bendix manager, D. H. Brown, hold a replica of the Minuteman missile seen in the background at the Bendix engineering plant located at 11600 Sherman Way in North Hollywood.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Bendix Corporation Bendix Corporation--Employees United States.--Air Force United States.--Air Force--Officers Aerospace industries--California--Los Angeles Aerospace industries--California--Los Angeles--Employees Ballistic missiles--California--Los Angeles Ballistic missiles--Models--California--Los Angeles Minuteman (Missile) Minuteman (Missile)--Models North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Group portraits Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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