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E G Ct hyl a so l ine o r po r at io n CG Dr EU A. Kenc Ma n u f a c t u r in g a nd Tr a f f ic De pa r t me n t J. H. SCHAEFER, MOR. A. P. STOVER ASST, MGR. E. J. GRESSL1N. TRAFFIC MGR PLEASE ADDRESS REPLY TO;- CHRYSLER BUILDING 405 LEXINGTON AVE., NEW YORK CITY August 5, XS39 a^iorandus* to* 1st E. J* Grossiin The fallowing is a excerpt fro Mr* 0 B. Lewis* letter of July 28 written fre the 'lest Coast where he. is aw making an inspeetion of sons of our activitiest "Oft Sunday and Monday, Looher end V 'nA 19 Wilmington to eupenrtee drum shipments for Seaside and Olympic* i`he continuously given shipping people and local hanulers urns very evident and I uh^nh^iir, Schaefer would be pleased* As in all ths& procedures, 1i^tia T & r e r o a p in. In this instance, they handle the drama, two they us round steel hoops covered with rapsj no hoop slips o?|2y'd(3 of a drumand they seemvery securely held* Looher tails sm the am vim & m & ng plant has a description and pictures of this method of handlta^irSjut Buw&s^hhell might heck with John Schaefer on this* da- drerafoaek. .tw at a time .at filmington, where they do it wall, is that they at other ports and thus break down the ruleof handling only one drusNtN^iii* Looher has revived our old idea. ...of shipping in larger dontFSBbrR'i centojjanr to he lowered from ship to truck, to* I told fa;mthe difi'/csQSilos. but he wishes to write a. report on the ad vantages, so Xtold his io\toS&b^^si ' la general, s l r i t o he handled reasonably well on the West Coast, but l amsurprised to not that in the ineteaoea cited by Mr* Lewis that drums were bandied two at-a time in unloading by the steamship,company*1 think It would he well to have Mr* Armstrong contact the line in question and repeat our instructions that for both loading and unloading drums only on should'be handled at a time by methods approved by him* 1 (pits agree with Mr* Lewis* eojardoats that while it would appear -that two-at-a-tiae handling' seems to be managed reasonably well under these particular circumstances, it erecttoa a precedent which would interfere with our insistence of handling only oftat &time. You might also ;wish to writ to Mr* Locher, c/o Mr* fflagner'e office on ih test Coast on this natter* Please let me have copies of your corres pondence* J* H* Schaefer a dxm Rt f 0000880