MSS 136 Clifton Manufacturing Company SERIES #5 OPERATIONS/PRODUCTION, 1880-1966 Clifton Manufacturing Company kept a variety of operating and production records throughout its ninety - year history. This series is divided into eight subseries: construction, maintenance, mill tests (external), mill test (internal), mill reports, office of price stabilization, shipping and war departments. The construction sub-series has inclusive dates of 1880-1953 with the bulk of the records between 1940-1953. The records include material related to various companies that did construction work for Clifton Manufacturing Company such as records about construction in the mill villages and the reconstruction of the mills after the flood of 1903. There are blueprints, receipts, specifications and vouchers of various buildings and construction sites. The maintenance sub-series has inclusive dates of 1930-195 8. Maintenance contains records on equipment purchases, inspections, installation of equipment, special instructions and agreements and lists of maintenance equipment that was company ProPertJ'. The mill tests (external) sub-series has inclusive dates of 1933-1962. Clifton Manufacturing Company hired a variety of companies that would test performance in various departments of the mills. These records include production tables, charts and analysis of the department tested and recommendations to appropriate department heads and to the president of the company. The mill tests (internal) sub-series has inclusive and bulk dates of 1933-1963. In addition to the outside testing firms that Clifton would hire, the company performed its own performance tests. This would include nearly all departments in all six mills. These records include test results, performance charts, tables, personnel and departmental analysis. The mill reports sub-series has inclusive dates of 1880-1966 and bulk dates of 1930-1966. Mill reports is the largest sub-series. Records from main departments include reports from the card room, cloth room, and reports on mill return, power, spinning room, superintendents, truck and warehouse, and weave room production. Some of these reports are in daily, weekly, monthly and yearly order. They show in detail the operation of the mills and the output that each mill produced over the time frame of the report. Several of the records have ten to twenty year record runs, providing a good indication of the mill production over a period of time. Also included in mill reports are production reports. These include cotton reports, daily production sheets, drawing reports (the process of increasing the length per unit weight of laps, slivers, slubbers or rovings), filling reports (the yarn running from selvage to selvage at right angles to the warp), fire inspection and power stoppage reports, gains and loss pounds reports, hank sheets (applied to slubbing or roving that indicates the yarn number count), highflow production, interdraft production, looms run, nep counts (a small knot of entangled fibers that usually will not straighten to a parallel position during carding or drafting), overseers reports, personnel and production reports, production reports, pick sheets (a single filling thread carried by one trip of the weft-insertion device across the loom), roller shop costs, rush sheets, slubber (a machine used in textile processes prior to spinning that reduces the sliver and inserts the first twist) and speeder reports, spooler reports, supply room reports, and yarn cost summaries. A variety of these records are in the forms of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly reports. Some have ten to twenty year concurrent runs while others are scattered over the life of the company. The Office of Price Stabilization (OPS) sub-series has inclusive dates of 1950- 1953. This series contains government reports and statements concerning the pricing of goods during the Korean War. Included in these records are correspondence between the OPS and the American Cotton Manufacturers Institute; OPS correspondence concerning price ceilings for textile good and laundry services. The shipping sub-series has inclusive and bulk dates of 1947- 1965. This series contains records concerning bills of lading, cotton claims and delivery and claim records for cotton. The war departments sub-series has inclusive dates of 19 19- 1963 with bulk dates of 1 94 1 - 1945. Included in these records are civil defense reports which provide air raid alert information; correspondence from the National Defense Power Committee contains reports on industrial power of companies; correspondence with the Navy department concerning textile orders, shipping and occupational deferments for employees or private plants; a copy of the Selective Service Act of 1948 and the U.S. Veterans Commission concerning textile orders, re-employment of veterans and insurance and death claims. Correspondence from the War Labor Commission, War Manpower Commission and the War Production Board concerning wartime production limits on equipment, material and manpower is also included. Construction BOX FOLDER TITLE 1 1 Cost Estimates, New Construction Mills # 1-3, January - April 1904 2 Cost Estimates, New Construction Mill #3 Power House, May - August 1904 3 Fiske-Carter Construction Company 1951 - 1952 4 Fiske-Carter Construction Company 1953, 1956 Fiske-Carter Construction Company Mill and House Repairs 5 November 17,1942,1946 - 1947 6 January - June 1948 7 July - December 1948 2 8 1952 January - June, September 1949 9 Fiske-Carter Construction Company Repairs to # 1-3, 1947 - 1949 10 Fiske-Carter Construction Company Vouchers/Receipts, 1940, 1945 11 Floor Plans Clifton Mills # 1, No Date 12 James Leffel and Company Water Wheel; No Date, 1952 13 James Leffel and CompanyIFiske-Carter, No date, 1952 13a Mill Labor, 1882 14 Water Wheel James Leffel and CornpanylGeorge Hill & Fiske-Carter 1953, 1954 15 Water Wheel James Leffel and Company /Westinghouse Electric Corp, No date, 1952 16 Specifications and Blueprints, 1880, ca. 18801s, 1955-1956 17 Office Building, 1900 3 18 Power House, January 9, 1904 19 Power Plant #3, 1904 20 Universal Construction Water Tank, No date, 1941, 1942 21 Whitin Machine Works Specifications Mill Equipment 1903 - 1907 Maintenance 22 Equipment, etc., No date, 1931, 1934, 1938 23 Equipment/Damage, No date, 1946 - 1961 24 General, Various Departments, No date, 1934, 1935, 1937 25 General, No date, 1935-1953 26 Inspections # 1-2, 1941 27 Installation of Equipment, No date, 1939 - 1946 28 Maintenance Instructions and Agreements, No date, 1938 - 195 1 29 Special Tools and Equipment-Company Property # 1-3, 1947 Mill Tests (External) Beaumont Control Lab, 1941 - 1956 Blue Bell, Inc. #1 Cloth Room, 1961 - 1965 Industrial Products, Inc., 1939 - 1940 Jacobs, E.H. Manufacturing Company, Lugstrap Breakage, 1934 Johnson and Johnson Cloth Room, 1961 - 1962 Lancaster, John Analysis # 1, ca. 1952 Loper, Ralph E. Company Loom Fixers' Study #3, August 1948 Penick & Ford, Inc., No date, 1937 - 1949 Philip, Robert, Cotton, December 1934, 1935 Reeves Spinning Production, No Date Seydel-Woolley Company, 1934 - 1937,1944 Various Companies A-Z, 1934- 1953 Whitin Machine Works, Spinning End Breakage, 1932 Mill Tests (Internal) Cloth folded, Special Inspection, Seconds, Shearing Machine 1945 1945 Card Sliver Tests # 1, August, September 1957 Cloth Room #1, ShippinglStyleNardage, No date, 1954 - 1963 Drawing Tests #2, October - November 1957 General Tests # 1-3, No date, 1932 - 1936, 1941, 1946 Looms #2,1936 - 1937 Running Time Filling, 1953 Spindle Oil Test, No Date Spinning Room #2 End Breakage, 1935,1936, 1937,1952 Spinning Room #2,1937 Spinning Room Tests # 1,1945 - 1949 Traveler Changing and Blowing Off, 1952 Various Departments 53 #2-3, 1934 54 #1-3,1935 - 1936 Mill Reports (For oversize material in this series please see the oversize listing at the end of this register.) Band Machine #2 March 1946 - November 1949 #2 March 1916 - March 1954 #2 April 1954 - March 1957 #2 March 1957 - June 1958 Battery Fillers Comparison SheetsIRough Work, No date, 1947 - 1952 Bonuses/Seconds #2 1941 April 1944 - March 1946 January - September 1945 October 1945 - March 1946 Card Room, The Care of Card Clothing, No Date Card Room, Checks and Comparisons, #1 & #3, No date, 1943 - 1951 Card Room Complete Analysis #3 May 1938 #2 July 1938, # 1 October 1938 #3 September 1944, # 1 October 1944 Card Room, Daily Cost Reports, 1945, 1948,1952, 1958 Card Room, DrawingIInterdrafVSpeeder Hanks April - October 1952 #3 April 1960 - March 196 1 Card Room Labor Layout No date, 1931, 1933 1940 - 1942 No date, 1949 Card Room Monthly Report #1-3 April 1950 - March 1953 #1-3 April - December 1953 #1-3 April 1956 - March 1957 #1-3 April 1957 - March 1958 Card Room Production Reports No date, 1939 - 1946 #2 No date, April 1950 - March 195 1 #2 September - November 1953 #2 March 1955 - March 1956, April 1955 - February 1956 # 1 April 1960 - March 1961 #2 April 1960 - February 1961 Weekly #3, October - December 1953 Card Room Purposed Reorganization, July 1, 1940 Card Room Reports, No date, 1945 Card and Spinning Production Sheets # 1 March - November 1952 #2 April - October 1952 Card Room Stock Reports March 1936 - November 1945 December 1945 - July 1955 Card Room Stock Monthly Reports #1-3 1941 # 1-3 FY 1946 - 1949 #1-3 FY 1949 - 1950 #1-3 FY 1955 - 1956 Check on Mill #3, July 1935 Cloth Construction, 1946 Cloth Inspection Reports # 1-3 December 1953 - March 1954 #1 April 1955 - March 1956 #3,5 April 1955 - March 1956 Cloth Room Complete Analysis #3 September