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Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 MARCH, 1960 Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 THE Horizontal Forcing Press is capable of exerting a force THIS Vertical Boring Mill has a capacity for machining a of 500 tons to engage or disengage various parts. The ma pie ce 101/z feet in diam e t er and 71/z feet high, w eighing chine will accommodate parts 101/z feet in diameter and has 40,000 pounds. R 75 horsepower motor makes possible the a distance between supports of 20 fe et. The operation b eing rapid removal of m e tal. The operation being p erformed by performed in the above picture is that of pressing a shaft into Lee Deggs above is that of machining the slow speed g e ar the gear for a Lufkin Marine G e ar Model DV 4420. Charlie for Lufkin Marine G ea r Model DV 4420. Lee De ggs and Les Harbuck and Malcolm King in the above picture operate this Bullock operate the m achin e on first shift and Wayne Wallace machine on the first shift, and Thomas Bone and Glen Wallace operates it on second shift. operate it on the second shift. BET A MILLION • • • Take One Giant Step HE year 1959 will go down in the history of ables us to compete in many new markets that were T Lufkin Foundry and Machine Company as one previously not open to us because of size limitations. in which the Company took one giant step into new To produce a completed gear box to take the max markets and th erefore into new plant equipment. imum size gear, it was nece ss~ry to have other With additional heavy machine tool capacity and machine tools in addition to a large gear cutter. A the related supporting equipment, Lufkin Foundry vertical boring mill had to be purchased with ca & Machine Company has now stepped into broad pacity to turn, bore and face the gear blank_ A hori new fields of growth in the heavy industrial gear zontal forcing press had to be bought with capacity field. to press the shaft in the completed gear. A milling But all this didn't happen in a twinkling of the machine had to he purchased with capacity to rap eye, or even in just one year. There was much re idly machine large cast iron gear boxes. And a new search, planning, and conferences among plant per electrical di stribution center was installed to take sonnel before this new step could become reality. care of the increased electrical load of the large Now, we are able to produce a gear 10 feet in motors of the new machine tools. diameter wi th a 2-foot face width. Previously, we The planning for an expansion such as this re had a maximum capacity of a 5-foot diameter gear quired several years. First, of course, was the prob with 20-inch face width. The additional capacity en- lem of determining the size of the market for larger 2 Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 THIS adjustable Rail Milling machine has the capacity to of machining the fabricated housing for the Lufkin Marine machine a piece 9 feet wide. 8 feet high and 26 feel long. Gear Model DV 4420. avery Lee, above, is operator of the This machine is powered by a 125 hors e pow e r motor and machine on first shift. His helpers are Bob Melton and Wayne the entire machine is controllable from the pendant that the Largent. J. V. Nash is operator on the second shift, while· operator is holding. The operation being performed is that John Hopkins and William Moore are helpers. sfae gear units. Then came such questions as: "How competitive is the market for this size gear unit?" "Can we capture a large enough share of the market to make investment in plant and equipment worth while?" "Can th e new equipment be used on our present products until the new product line is estab lished?" "How much re-arranging of the existing plant will be necessary to accommodate the new tools?" These and hundreds of other questi ons were an swered to the satisfaction of management, and the decision was made to proceed with the project. The next step was to get quotations from various machine tool suppliers, and to assure ourselves that we were getting the machines that best suited our needs and the most machine for the money. Layouts were made to determine the best location THE Farrell-Sykes Gear Generator is capable of cutting the for the tools and equipment. When the layouts were teeth in a g ear of IO-foot diameter with a 2-foot face width. The machine wilt produce extremely accurate gear teeth and approved, work was begun on the foundations. The will be used for our large, high speed gear cutting. The ma machines were subsequently installed carefully and chine is shown above cutting the teeth on Lufkin Model N38 gear. This is the largest gear of this type that has been cut. put into operation. Shown in the picture is Horace askins who operates the ma The pioneering spirit which built Lufkin Foundry chine on the first shift. John Daniels operates it on the second and Machine Company was very much in evidence shift and a!vin Powell operates it on the third shift. from the beginning of this project. The complete in stallation of all the machine tools required a very It would have been an easier task and much less substantial investment. This investm ent was required risky just to spend this money for . new equipment for equipment which would produce a product for for our established products line-or even to pay which we had no orders on the books. This whole out this money in dividends to the stockholders. But project was a gamble-a gamble that we could cap Management saw a real opportunity for opening up ture enough of the large gear business to effectively new frontiers of growth for Lufkin Foundry and utilize the new equipment. Machine Company ... and made the bet! 3 Copied from an original at The History Center. www.TheHistoryCenterOnline.com 2013:023 THE HIDDEN JUMPER Joins TAX BITE Golden Shoe Club Charlie W. Jumper, machine op erator hel per in the Welding and HE squawking heard throughout Structural Shop, was recently granted Tthe land around Income Tax Day membership in the Golden Shoe Club. would probably be even louder if the His membership was granted be average American realized he is pay cause he was wearing safety shoes ing much more for government than when an .accident occurred that would he thinks he is. He is, says T.ax Foun have caused him extensive injury had dation, Inc., because in the end only he not been wearing the shoes. He was people pay taxes, and so they really transferring angles from a s torage pay not only their own income taxes rack to a nearby work table, when a but much of the income tax on corpo piece of % x 4 x 4" angle, 12 feet rations which must be passed on some M. M. FONTENOT. left, holds the certifi long and weighing 118 pounds slipped where as a cost of doing business. cate of membership in the Golden Shoe from his grasp .and fell across his foot. Club which was granted CHARLIE W. Although politicians like to talk of JUMPER. right. because he was wearing "making the corporations pay," it's He was not seriously injured because safety shoes which protected his foot not difficult to see that most taxes on the safety shoes protected his foot. when a piece of angle was dropped on it. business are simply passed along to the c onsumers in the form of higher prices. They then become " hidden taxes." It is difficult to say exactly how MEMORANDUM much any one taxpayer pays in hidden taxes during the course of the year. N MAY 20, 1959, Jewel Kolb, an The matter was processed through Some idea of the sizeable .amount of O employee in the Machine Shop, the grievance procedure and when it taxes in any one article, however is w.as given a four ( 4.) day layoff for was denied in the final step, the Union gained from a count the Foundation disciplinary reasons. The Company insisted that the matter be submitted made to show that there are at least: contended that the reason for the lay to arbitration. Professor Lennart V. Larson of the Law School at South 100 taxes on an egg off was an accumulation of rules' vio ern Methodist University was selected 116 taxes on a man's suit lations and of performing his work in as impartial arbitrator, and the matter 150 taxes on a woman's hat a generally unsatisfactory manner. was s ubmitted to him at .a hearing 151 taxes on a loaf of bread The Union objected to the layoff .and held on September 23, 1959. 600 taxes on a house insisted that Kolb be paid for time lost The Company insisted that no dis during the layoff. ciplinary action would have been taken One rough estimate of all taxes paid if the particular negligent act had been by a family with a $5,000 annual in Specifically, Kolb had negligently obtained the wrong tool from the tool the only blot on the employee's record.