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1941-1947 Correspondence

 Item — Box: 0078.10, Item: 49
Identifier: 0078.10.49

Scope and Contents

1941 February 18 to Babcock & Wilcox Company (Barberton, Ohio) Re: Extrusion Press Plant for manufacturing rods in stainless steel, alloyed steel and carbon steel (nine page typed carbon letter) 1941 February 27 Description of Propeller Forging Mill – Drawing No. PR.210617 (see 0078.10.37) (two page typed original) 1941 April 19 Drawing R160110 (copy of a drawing of a rolling mill detail Illustrating the reducing thickness based on 13 passes) 1941 June 5 to A.B. Cudebec (New York) from Loewy Engineering Co. Ltd. (London) RE: Combined Rack and Roller Type Cooling Bed, Rotary Shears, Racks, Skew Rollers, Run-out Table (four page typed original) 1941 December 29 to Erwin Loewy (New York) from R. Lustig (Loewy Engi- Neering Co. Ltd (London) Re: 1000-Ton Horizontal Extrusion Press, Enclosures re: Horizontal Extrusion Press 1000/140t & FABKAR Tools (four pages original) 1942 January 3 to Erwin Loewy (New York) from R. Lustig (Montreal) Re: 1000- Ton Horizontal Extrusion Press & FABKAR Tools for Billets (C-2320) (two pages original) 1942 January 3 to Albert Cudebec (New York City) from Loewy Engineering Telegram re: Cylinder annealing (copy) 1942 February 28 to Albert Cudebec (New York City) from Loewy Engineering Telegram re: Cylinder cast bottom and wall (copy) 1942 Spring to Ludwig Loewy from Basil Grey (English Steel Corp) (typed Original Copy of a letter dated February 23 Re: cylinder casting and pouring temperature) 1943 April 20 to S.W. Anderson (War Production Board) from Erwin Loewy (Hydropress, Inc) (four page typed carbon re: steel cast cylinders, cracked cylinders, extrusion presses) 1943 April 21 Office Memo 792 from Erwin Loewy (typed carbon re: War Production Board concern for cracking of cast steel cylinders from presses built by Schloemann Engineering, two pages) 1943 April 21 Office Memo 795 from Erwin Loewy (typed carbon re: Anderson’s information regarding presses and cracking of cylinders) 1943 April 22 to War Production Board from Alfred Fleissig (Hydropress, Inc.) (two page typed carbon re: Main Forged Steel Cylinders for Extrusion Presses reporting delivery for forged steel cylinders by Bethlehem (Steel) and Midvale companies) 1947 February 28 Report on drawing-coordinating-work (list is partly in German, partly in English)

Dates

  • Creation: 1928-1959

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection housed remotely. Users need to contact 24 hours in advance.

Extent

From the Collection: 22 Linear Feet (34 boxes, 2 oversize folders)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Lehigh University Special Collections Repository

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