Farming out methods [electronic resource] / Labor Division, Office of Production Management.

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Title	Farming out methods [electronic resource] / Labor Division, Office of Production Management.
Item Number	p0213
Creator (Corporate)	United States. Office of Production Management. Labor Division.
Government Publisher	U.S. Government Printing Office
Original Date	1941
Physical Description	69 p. ; 24 cm.
Series	Farming out bulletin ; no. 5.
Notes	The report was prepared in the Employment and Occupational Outlook Branch, High B. Killough, Chief. The estimates of employment in the 181 areas were prepared in the Employment Statistics Division by the staff of the Area Studies Section, under the supervision of Marion Hayes. A. F. Hinrichs, Acting Commissioner.--ii.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents	Foreword -- The importance of farming out -- Adaptation of old equipment to new uses -- farming out to small shops -- Subcontracting methods of the Sperry Gyroscope Co. -- A large subcontractor: The American Machine & Foundry Co. -- Farming out machine-tool making: Kearney & Trecker -- Framing out by William Sellers & Co. -- The York Plan -- Organization under state auspices in New England -- The Automotive Committee for Air Defense -- Farming out methods applied to government procurement.
Summary	Between June 1940 and the adjournment of the Seventy-sixth Congress, munitions and defense construction appropriations for the War and Navy Departments totaled 16.5 billion dollars. This huge load of work was thrust, within a few short months, upon a small number of companies. Procurement officers soon realized that the firms receiving these orders did not themselves have the facilities for their completion within anything like the time schedule demanded by the national emergency. That marked the beginning of stress on faming out... Under the defense program, farming out has already taken a variety of forms. Sometimes a firm is in a position to do almost all the work on some product in its own shop and yet could not undertake the entire job because of lack of some essential machine. In view of the present bottleneck in machine tools, the firm could not hope to buy this necessary machine. And quite likely, even if the tool could be purchased, this would be an unjustifiable expense, because of the limited use which the firm would have for it. In many instances, limitations of this sort have been overcome by a simple and readily arranged form of cooperation. Some nearby concern, which has the necessary machine, but is not using it all the time on its own manufacturing, will consent to perform the necessary operation, and do it in such time and in accordance with such standards as the program of the prime contractor may require. Help of this kind, by one concern to another, has by no means been unknown in the past. But because of the present emergency, many manufacturers who in the past would not have considered letting others use their equipment in this way are now cooperating in such arrangements. In other cases, instead of farming out only one or a very few operations, someone who knows how to make a product, but has no plant to speak of, will take a prime contract and then subcontract almost the whole of the actual work.--p. 5-9.
Corporate Names	Sperry Gyroscope Company, inc. American Machine and Foundry Company. Kearney & Trecker Corporation. William Sellers & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.). York Plan. Manufacturers Association (York, Pa.).
Topical Terms	World War, 1939-1945--United States. Government contractors--United States. Subcontracting--United States--Case studies. Subcontractors--United States. Industrial mobilization--United States. Industrial priorities--United States. Defense industries--Subcontracting--United States. Armed Forces--Procurement. Government purchasing--United States. Manufacturing industries--United States.
Gov Doc Classification	PR 32.4007:5
Type	Text
Digital Format	.pdf
Digital Publication Date	Available in digital format: 2001-2002
Digitization Process	Scanned as 300 dpi .jpg; converted to Adobe .pdf
SMU File Name	p0213.pdf
Digital Collection	Historic Government Publications from World War II
Library	Government Information Resources
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	These files may be freely used. A high-quality version of these files may be obtained for a fee by contacting ncds@smu.edu.

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