Handbook on Wartime Production

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Kellett Autogiro Corporation, 1943. Very good. Wear to wrappers. A WWII-era booklet urging workers in the Kellett Autogiro Corporation to increase production and work as a team to support the war effort. Kellett was an aircraft manufacturer founded in 1929 that designed and produced helicopters for the American military. Note the sense of urgency in the booklet's rhetoric, as well as mentions of things like wartime rubber and gas rationing on the homefront (in this case, since the workers were producing things for the military, rations were curtailed) and the brief section on U.S. Government federal espionage and secrecy regulations. Also includes information on safety training, workflow, worker's comp, Army-Navy standards, and standard rules and measurements for production. A valuable window into the sense of duty and responsibility workers at home must have felt for the war effort abroad. Single vol. (6" by 3.5"), pp. 39, [1], stapled in original gold wrps printed in blue. "Kellett must produce-- therefore so must you.