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*":r - * ADMINISTRATION DIVISION LAMP DEPARTMENT m ELECTRIC COMPANY NELA PARK CLEVELAND 12. OHIO May 13, 1949 Dr. A.J. Vorwald The Saranac Laboratory Saranac Lake, New York Dear Dr. Vorwald: The incandescent lamp with the Q-coating seems destined to assume an important part in our lamp-making program, so we are getting pretty anxious to have some information on the poss ible toxicity of the powder used in ih. It is now six months since you received our ngd ahead", and our information is that no tests have been started as yet. This is very disappointing to us, although we realize that we must assume part of the responsibility for this delay - due to our inability to obtain certain ESSENTIAL equipment. But we feel that some of the items you have requested are really not essential, albeit they would be nice to have and probably would make the job easier. As an example, we seem to be in disagree ment- as to just how essential it is to have a burner-cleaner. We here do not think it necessary and, furthermore, it mil be a major job to design and build such a machine, so we wish you could see clear to go ahead without it. After Mr. Bartlett's visit to Saranac, we thought you would soon be starting tests, but since then we have had only additional requests for equipment, etc., and apparently little progress toward actually starting tests has been made in the past two and a half months. . ... But perhaps we are placing too much stress on the equip ment angle. The delay may be a personnel problem, wherein the man assigned to the tests may be held up because of the prior ity or urgency of other assignments. We suspect this because he has been sending to us, for processing on our electron micro scope, samples of silica and glass which, by no stretch of the imagination, can we tie in with our Q-coating investigations. If we are mistaken, we shall be glad to service these samples as part of our mutual program. By the same token, we 3hall be glad to service any samples which have a direct bearing on the `Q-coating investigation. ' Maybe our anxiety has made us impatient, but we feel that we just must get some information before long, and we solicit your personal efforts to "get things rolling". Yours very truly, i: