. Factory and industrial management. s as thesuperintendent may order. For example, suppose a car-house fore-man or station engineer requisitions the superintendent for a numberof boiler tubes of a certain size and make of boilers, with a rough sketchon his order or note. The superintendent, after receiving it, ascer-tains if any are in stock; if not, he transmits the order to the draught-ing room marked for the chief draughtsmans attention, perhaps send-ing a note with it. The draughting room then makes perhaps a free-hand copy-book sketch on memorandum sheets in copying ink or pen-cil. Then
. Factory and industrial management. s as thesuperintendent may order. For example, suppose a car-house fore-man or station engineer requisitions the superintendent for a numberof boiler tubes of a certain size and make of boilers, with a rough sketchon his order or note. The superintendent, after receiving it, ascer-tains if any are in stock; if not, he transmits the order to the draught-ing room marked for the chief draughtsmans attention, perhaps send-ing a note with it. The draughting room then makes perhaps a free-hand copy-book sketch on memorandum sheets in copying ink or pen-cil. Then as many copies as the purchasing agent will desire maybe struck off on the simplex or hektograph pads, including one in theproper copy book : or a drawing may be made in the usual way, tracedand printed, and any number of prints taken. These copies are thensent to the superintendent with a new draughting-room order on thepurchasing department and by the superintendent forwarded to the MECHANICAL ENGINEERING OF ELECTRIC RAILWAYS. 521. store keeper; a duplicateof each order is kept bythe superintendent whilethe draughting room re-tains a triplicate and theoriginal order. The storekeeper then requisitionsthe purchasing agent, re-taining thereby a copy ofthe material with name ofdepartment and person ordering for reference THE ARMATURE ROOM, MACHINERY END. when the material is received, and with this order forwards thesketch. To give another example; a station engineer may order a duplicateof some broken part of an engine, sending a sample, or the brokenpart itself, or a sketch from it with a reference to some pattern ordrawing number. In any case the order goes to the draughting roomand is made out anew when drawings are ready and forwarded to themanufacturing department. If a new drawing must be made andtime is not sufficient for a tracing, a varnished shop sketch on smallcards may be made, retaining a copy in the copy book; or if too elab-orate for this size, it would be made in
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