B-17 Chin Turret Machine Gun Slot Cover with zipper; Skinner'sTackle Twill and Crown zipper; 1944
date: label: date made
content: 1944
name: label: maker
content: William Skinner and Sons
notes: label: Description
content: B-17 Chin Turret Machine Gun Slot Cover with zipper; Skinner'sTackle Twill and Crown zipper; 1944. Machine Gun Bendix Turret Slot Installation Using Crown Size 10 Fastener; William Skinner and Sons (Holyoke, MA) Tackle Twill fabric and felt; 1944. Army green viscose rayon Tackle Twill and felt; This is a length of fabric with a double-action extra heavy zip fastener stitched down the center, from which protrudes a metal tube through which a machine gun barrel would be able to move up and down in the chin turret slots on the later version of the B-17, with the cover providing some extra streamlining. Golden brass 0.5 inch grommets on edges throughout pressed through felt. Metal zipper. Trademark Tackle Twill by William Skinner and Sons. Triple stitched double acting zipper. Photo of slot cover in use included in accession folder.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Holyoke
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Allentown
topic: label: web subject
content: American Textile Industry
label: related event
content: World War II
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: American Textile Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William Skinner and Sons
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T09100.000
label: catalog number
content: T09100.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fastener, Machine Gun Turret
label: Object Name
content: Machine Gun Bendix Turret Slot Installation Using Crown Size 10 Fastener
label: Object Name
content: Chin Turret Machine Gun Slot Cover
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: viscose rayon; metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 in x 6 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in x 2 1/4 in; 76.2 cm x 17.145 cm x 19.685 cm x 5.715 cm