. Railway mechanical engineer . etticoat pipe w-as dis-connected and the steam pipe joints broken for the sake ofthis pipe needed for the engine going out. It required over$100 worth of labor to apply the new pipe which wouldnot have been removed if material had been in stock. Gibbons groaned as he remembered disconnecting cross-heads and pulling down guides for back cylinder heads fromgood engines, in order to rush back sliop repairs. In themajority of cases, the store shortage had cost him hundredsof dollars. He had made forgings that cost many days work for thelack of castings. He got toget
. Railway mechanical engineer . etticoat pipe w-as dis-connected and the steam pipe joints broken for the sake ofthis pipe needed for the engine going out. It required over$100 worth of labor to apply the new pipe which wouldnot have been removed if material had been in stock. Gibbons groaned as he remembered disconnecting cross-heads and pulling down guides for back cylinder heads fromgood engines, in order to rush back sliop repairs. In themajority of cases, the store shortage had cost him hundredsof dollars. He had made forgings that cost many days work for thelack of castings. He got together the figures representingwasted labor looking over the scrap pile. He then added thecost of reclaiming. Gradually his data disclosed the factthat the engine which cost approximately $2,000 for repairscould havebeen repaired for $1,000 if $400 had been usedfor material instead of $200. To get the other $200 worthof material he had spent over a thousand dollars in labor. It seemed incredible. Gibbons knew that this was a heavy. They Had to Rob an Engine to Get a Left Steam Pipe repair but his light repairs brought out the same approximateproportion. All excitement the general foreman started his letter tothe general manager. It w-as a long hand affair witli a massof figures taken from the official report. In it were typicalillustrations—in otlier w^ords, actual evidence. At the endof the article the foreman wrote as follows: Mr. Corey, if you went to a shoe store and asked for apair of shoes, what would you think if the clerk said: Weare entirely out of shoes, but we have some nice leather cost twice as much but they are your size. You cancut the tops off and throw the unused parts away. Other-wise, I guess you must go without unless I wire for someand I know you cant waitl Now this is the fix the me-chanical department is in, Mr. Corey. We must butcher upgood stock or do without. Years ago material was cheaperthan labor, but today the reverse holds true. I do not
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