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Photograph 000625/05 Second World War, 1939-1945A male employee at the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Factory working at drilling cylinder heads.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A male employee at the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Factory working on a Aero engine cylinder. (Note the extensive cooling fins).
A male employee at the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Factory working at drilling cylinder heads.

At the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Factory a row of cylinder head castings of aluminium alloy present an almost surreal image.

At the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Factory, a man at work on the nose of the engine of a Wirraway aircraft showing the epicylic reduction gear.

At the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation factory men are working on a 700 h.p. Wasp Radial Engine for a Wirraway aircraft.

At the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Factory, men working on the engine and its tubular frame mounting ready for installation on a Wirraway plane.

COMMONWEALTH AIRCRAFT FACTORY. "PATTERNS" ARE NECESSARY BEFORE CASTINGS CAN BE POURED. THESE ARE THE TWO HALVES OF A PATTERN WHICH MOULDS SAND READY FOR CASTING AERO ENGINE CYLINDER HEADS. (NEGATIVE B
