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Charles Hink with his Wheel-aligning Gauge

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Charles Hink, an early Grinnell, Iowa, inventor, holds his wheel-alignment gauge. Thousands of the gauges were ordered by the United States government during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. He received US Patent No. US 1970092 in 1934 for the device. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Title Charles Hink with his Wheel-alignment Gauge
Index Date 1966
Date Issued 1966?
Publisher Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Provenance Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives
Topic Trucks--Wheels--Alignment
Topic Hink, Charles Andrews, 1886-1974
Topic Inventors
Topic Automobiles--Wheels--Alignment
Geographic Grinnell (Iowa)
Keyword 1960s
Keyword Grinnell
Keyword Business
Related Item Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Related Item Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Genre photograph
Extent 1 sheet
Media Type image/tiff
Digital Origin digitized other analog
Language English
Identifier (local) grinnell:13007
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/13007
Access Condition Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.).
Type of Resource still image
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