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Rockford Products manufactured automotive parts.

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Rockford Products manufactured automotive parts and chuck keys.

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Rockford Products manufactured components. From left to rights are an Amerock Window Crank components, a Ford fuel nozzle part a Ford transmission pin and part of a gear shift.

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Rockford Products manufactured parts with asymmetric shapes. The head is off set from the shank.

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Rockford International reception area at Rockford Products Plant #1 (2501 9th Street) with a wall of featured product samples.

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Rockford International Group division of Rockford Products at 2501 9th street. This was Rockford Products' Plant #1.

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Front office reception rotunda at Plant #3 of Rockford Products at 707 Harrison Avenue.

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Rockford Products President Ray Wood poses with Helen Ware who worked in the front office.

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Ray Ollman employee, Rockford Screw Products

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Race Street industrial buildings.

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Karen Moore works in the quality control department using IBM computer at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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Chuck Fuller, Purchasing Department employee at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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Display rack at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue) main office of the company's main products.

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Clearing the ground for the building of Rockford Screw Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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An African-American employee operates a pointer shaver that was made in house in the experimental department at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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Plating Department workers at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue) engineer, Paul Sutek.

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Packaging machines in the shipping department of Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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Packaging machine up in the shipping area of Rockford Products Plant #3.

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Employee in the Tool room of Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue) operating an outside diameter grinder.

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Optical comparator for checking bolt dimensions and threads at Rockford Screw Products.

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A Rockford Products employee at Plant #3 operates An hydraulic press in the tool room.

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Plant #3 Rockford Screw Products front office. The switchboard is visible on the right. Howie Landstrom, leaning on the table in the dark suit, was the Office Manager.

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Office at Plant #3 of Rockford Products. Jay Voss is on the phone at the bottom left.

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A man watches a row of nut forming machines at Rockford Screw Products Plant #1 (2501 9th Street).

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Photo of the nose art on the Rockford Screw Products "Screw Bird "airplane.

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Rockford Screw Products at 707 Harrison Avenue looking southeast from the intersection with Kishwaukee Street.

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Mikki Bryant, Rockford International Sales Desk, at Rockford Products Plant #1 (2501 9th Street).

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Mike Berg, Quality Manager, Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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Bill Wargo in the Metallurgical Laboratory at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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Ross Palomgi in the Metallurgical Laboratory at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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Cyril Smith in the Metallurgical Laboratory at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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Al Jones, Keith Repogle and Denice Kunzelman work at the Metallurgical Laboratory computer Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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Marge Bronson uses computer equipment in the metallurgical department of Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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A Rockford Products executive stands in front of a Metallurgical Laboratory optical comparator at Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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Merrill Anderson, Vice President of Manufacturing for Rockford Products.

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Showing the progression for turning wire into a finished bolt using a header machine at Rockford Screw Products.

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Industrial buildings between Main Street and Race Street

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Industrial buildings between Main Street and Race Street

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Don Peterson, Machine Repair Supervisor at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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Rockford Screw Products Employees loading boxes into the nose of company's airplane, the "Screw Bird".

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Construction workmen laying brick for Rockford Screw Products Plant #3.

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Tool Room Lathe operator at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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John Waller, Vice President of Information Technology and Corporate Quality at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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John Sieburns at work at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue). A computer is set up on the desk behind him.

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Jerry Ekberg, Plant Manager at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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Jerry Bonacorsi, Engineering Supervisor, at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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Jack Shugart, Vice President of Manufacturing at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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Odessa Thurman in the Insurance Department of Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).

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The inspection, packaging and shipping area of the Rockford Screw Products Plant #1 (2501 9th Street).
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