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INDUSTRIAL DETROIT

Before the Badge

Ford, Lincoln, Vickers, tool-and-die work and the industrial city that shaped him.

Ralph Renna Palmer’s documented 1943 Tool Engineering certificate from the family archive.
Palmer Family Archive · Ralph Renna Palmer’s documented 1943 Tool Engineering certificate from the family archive.
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The industrial record.

Ford, Lincoln, Vickers, and tool-and-die material are organized here as the documented working life that preceded the badge.

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