. American engineer . d complete. Hoiler hydrostatic testO. K. valves, links, motion work complete, engine truck bo.\es,brake rigging, engine brake cylinders and valves, air pump, en-gine truck wheels, boiler fittings, eccentrics and straps, cross-heads and gibs, pistons and rods, shoes and wedges, steam chests,covers, valve yokes, parts of spring rigging and some guides allsent from erecting shop to machine shop. Frame binders, en-gine springs and some guides sent from erecting shop to smithshop, .^sh pan delivered to boiler shop, etc., to 18th day en-gine out. Fig. 2 shows part of a machine


. American engineer . d complete. Hoiler hydrostatic testO. K. valves, links, motion work complete, engine truck bo.\es,brake rigging, engine brake cylinders and valves, air pump, en-gine truck wheels, boiler fittings, eccentrics and straps, cross-heads and gibs, pistons and rods, shoes and wedges, steam chests,covers, valve yokes, parts of spring rigging and some guides allsent from erecting shop to machine shop. Frame binders, en-gine springs and some guides sent from erecting shop to smithshop, .^sh pan delivered to boiler shop, etc., to 18th day en-gine out. Fig. 2 shows part of a machine shop repair card used to routeand date all material from the erecting shop to the machine shopand back again when finished and ready for the engine. Mate-rial routed by way of the smith or tank shop, such as brakerigging parts and tender brake cylinders and valves are alsocarried on this form. To better explain it let us refer to theside nids shown in the second row from the top. Since we N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. Co. Fig. 4—Material Delay Sheet. are now in the machine shop these rods are first dated overfrom the erecting shop on July 18, next they go to the smithshop on the 30th, on the 31st day they return from the smithshop and on August 3 they are delivered to the erecting date that these rods should be up on the engine on theerecting shop operation repair card is August 6, so that thisdate, the third, allows two days leeway for unexpected a delay occurred anywhere along the route the daily delayreport, to be described later, would state that fact and explainthe cause. Each department gets a repair card similar to theone just described and carrying all of the material or operationswith which it is concerned. In many cases small repair cards are used for still furtherextending the dates to gang bosses and job foremen. Theseare made out in the foremans office and copied from the largerepair card issued to that shop. All repair cards are made outby the schedu


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