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Johns-Man vi lle SALES CORPORATION . PACKINGS AND FRICTION MATERIALS DIVISION CHESTNUT STREET AT FOURTH PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19106 TELEPHONE 922-5000 AREA CODE 215 m The Mall Building April 3rd, 1969 General Electric Company 1501 Beanoke Boulevard Salem* Virginia ATT*: Hr* A,E Goultar*8r* Buyer-Pur chasing BB,: 151A7931 167A8474 Gentlemen: Since receipt of your letter of March 21st 1969 we have been con ducting farther investigations on the Brake hitting tolerances and were hopeful of having an opportunity to talk with Hr* J.G.Copland personally when he wap in New fork last week* Gar Headquarters people attempted to contact him but the Hotel apparently did not deliver the message we left* We Were particularly concerned with paragraph 3 of your letter men tioning the Lining popped out thus creating a definite safety hasard* I attempted to phone you and when your line was busy talked to Hr* Geplaad about this* Hr* Copland indicated he did not feel there was any safety factor involved because of the radius deviation and we were most pleased te learn this* As mentioned in previous discussions* we are involved in dealing with the shrinkage factor on t.va dicsi.ml lai^me fcoaris l tti-alnn. Ualnfl. J ......... Steel and It is extremely difficult to accurately predict relaxation variations because of this* The variations f*oj jte ''mean dimension" as indicated in my letter of March 13th would be the normally encountered maximum figure* At our Plant inspection level we would normally expect the bulk of the items to be well within this maximum* The most important end pleasing fact is that we understand you have act encountered production problems in assembling the Lining nbr has field failure bebn encountered* Functionally, the Lining and the Brake are doing the job they are designed to do* Our Plant is investigating the possibility of individually strapping each piece around the long arc in an effort to prevent any further relaxation of the material after it leaves the. Plant* 1 feel it only PLAINTIFFS EXHIBIT MV'6 GEWVOCT04-011715 WV-21542 Page #2 fair to point out this would involve extra labor plus the fact we would not be able to stack these parte in a earton as we currently do thus adding a further cost factor* All of this would involve an extra charge and 1 know both of oer organizations are anxious to avoid this if at all possible* In addition* this night pose a slight storage problem to you since the pieces could not be nested With the straps on then* Xn ny letter of October. 23rd 1908 I mentioned noting on a recent visit that unasseiiibTed'* Block* were, stored by piling one on top of the other thus causing a further increase in the radios through the sheer weight of the pile* At the tine I strongly recommended these Blocks he stored by placing then on the side thus nesting then together rather then in a stack as is now done* You may f ! wish to cheek to determine this suggested procedure is being followed* You will hear farther from me as soon as we have had an opportunity to check tke possibility of our strapping the individual pieces and if the idea has any merit* Very truly yours Mr.J. G Copland Eoom 431B > * General Electric Company 1501 Roanoke Boulevard 3alen Va. GEWVOCT04-011716