. Electric railway journal . results, namely, a great increase in the number ofcars which can be passed through the shops in a given time andan improvement in the grade of work turned out by the space facilities at Jersey City are so limited that the speed- ing up of car maintenance work is especially important. Theclasses of labor to which the piecework system has been appliedare window cleaning, painting, wheelwork and for special jobs,such as the installation of electric heaters and coasting regis-ters, replacement of broken motor studs, etc. The sand-blastingof cars is also to be w
. Electric railway journal . results, namely, a great increase in the number ofcars which can be passed through the shops in a given time andan improvement in the grade of work turned out by the space facilities at Jersey City are so limited that the speed- ing up of car maintenance work is especially important. Theclasses of labor to which the piecework system has been appliedare window cleaning, painting, wheelwork and for special jobs,such as the installation of electric heaters and coasting regis-ters, replacement of broken motor studs, etc. The sand-blastingof cars is also to be worked out on this basis. The accompany-ing tables present the differences between day and pieceworkrates for certain classes of work. Table II, for example, shows the estimates of savings whichwere made when the piecework system was decided upon forwindow cleaning. These estimates have proved correct in prac-tice, as the application of piecework has reduced the cost ofwindow cleaning from I91/ cents to 15 cents per car. The. Hudson Shops—Air Hoist for Bringing Wheel Sets Directto the Lathe piecework system disposes of the cars much faster than the daysystem. It was correctly estimated that seventy-four cars couldbe cleaned by six men in the time formerly required by sevenmen to clean fifty-eight cars. Table III shows a similar com-parison for painting. The saving in one case has amounted to$5-59 Per car and in another case to $3 per car. The piecework rates on wheel turning are not based on theusual cent per inch principle. As shown in the accompanyingTable IV, the method is to pay the men i6y2 cents for a wheelof the minimum diameter of 30*4 in., allowing ;/ cent morefor each 1/16 in. diameter over the minimum size, consequently48^ cents is paid for a wheel of the maximum diameter of 34*4in. On the inch basis the respective prices for minimum andmaximum diameters would be 30*4 cents and 34*4 cents. Itwill be seen that the Hudson Companies method is to give ahigh premium to t
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