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- Title
- Loading a DuPont tank car with tetraethyl lead
- Date(s)
- 1945
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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An operator prepares to load a tank car of tetraethyl lead at DuPont's Chambers Works. The tank a car is on a siding in the TEL area where the antiknock compound is manufactured. DuPont's Petroleum Chemicals Division markets this product to refiners, who use it to increase knock resistance of the gasoline sold to motorist throughout the world. Tetraethyl lead compound is also used in aviation gasoline.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3685
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Loading a DuPont tank car with tetraethyl lead
- Date(s)
- 1945
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
-
An operator prepares to load a tank car of tetraethyl lead at DuPont's Chambers Works. The tank a car is on a siding in the TEL area where the antiknock compound is manufactured. DuPont's Petroleum Chemicals Division markets this product to refiners, who use it to increase knock resistance of the gasoline sold to motorist throughout the world. Tetraethyl lead compound is also used in aviation gasoline.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3686
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Interior of a tetraethyl lead plant at Chambers Works
- Date(s)
- 1945
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3681
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Reading the scale at tetraethyl lead plant
- Date(s)
- 1945
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
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The scale on the floor below at the DuPont Company's tetraethyl lead plant is being read from the catwalk by means of a periscope. The scale shows the weight of the material going into the manufacture of tetraethyl lead, an antiknock compound used in almost all the gasoline sold opt motorists throughout the world. DuPont also produces tetraethyl lead compound for aviation gasoline. The fluid is manufactured at the Chambers Works and is markets by the Petroleum Chemicals Division. Another...
Show moreThe scale on the floor below at the DuPont Company's tetraethyl lead plant is being read from the catwalk by means of a periscope. The scale shows the weight of the material going into the manufacture of tetraethyl lead, an antiknock compound used in almost all the gasoline sold opt motorists throughout the world. DuPont also produces tetraethyl lead compound for aviation gasoline. The fluid is manufactured at the Chambers Works and is markets by the Petroleum Chemicals Division. Another plant located at Antioch, California manufactures tetraethyl lead for the West Coat market.
Show less - Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3684
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection
- Title
- Reading the scale at tetraethyl lead plant
- Date(s)
- 1945
- Contributor(s)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
- Description
-
An operator reads a scale as the finished tetraethyl lead antiknock compound is being pumped from the blender into the tank car outside the DuPont Company's Chambers Works. It is here and at a new plant in Antioch, California that DuPont's antiknock fluid, used in almost all the gasoline bought by motorists through the world, is manufactured. The company also produces tetraethyl lead compound for aviation gasoline. Tetraethyl lead is marketed by DuPont's Petroleum Chemicals Division.
- Collection ID
- DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
- Hagley ID
- 1972341_3683
- Collection
- DuPont Company product information collection