Information
Creator
Creator: Burt Moritz Photography
Date
1940 to 1959
Description
The Hughes Laboratory Machine Shop is devoted to the building of full-scale test models of rock bits, tool joints and other drilling tools for laboratory and field testing. In connection with the latter, the shop is equipped to manufacture these tools in sufficient quantities to make possible extensive and simultaneous field trials. The machine shop handles a large amount of work for Research, Product and Metallurgical Engineering division. This includes building new designs, new mechanisms and new devices for preliminary testing.
Digital ID
whh000418
Physical Identifier
0321_0443