Word: timken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gears, high-accuracy steel parts which must take heavy punishment, are traditionally made by cutting the shape from solid metal. It is slow, painstaking work. Last week Timken-Detroit Axle Co. an nounced they had found a new way to make gears...
Before the war, Timken-Detroit, the only U.S. company making high-traction gears for all-wheel-drive trucks, had three machines, each turning out twelve pinions an hour - enough for one six-wheeler. As military trucking increased, Timken-Detroit engineers could foresee the bottle neck. They decided to try the impossible - to forge gears to the unheard-of tolerance (for forging...
...handle the rush Diamond T expanded factory space almost threefold to 700,000 sq. ft., boosted, employment from 600 to more than 2.000, leaned heavily on suppliers like Hercules Motors (engines). Timken-Detroit (axles), Clark Equipment (transmissions...
...work a seven-day week until additional men could be trained. It got "unanimous response." OPM announced this week that U.S. tank makers (Chrysler, American Locomotive, American Car & Foundry) were speeding up so fast they would hit 2,800 units monthly within a year. Current rate: 840. Meanwhile, Timken Roller Bearing (busy on Navy and tank gun mounts) told how it had planned full-time production 20 months ago. Timken's "anti-blackout" schedule uses three full eight-hour shifts, a fourth swing shift to keep equipment running 160 hours weekly, leaving eight hours a week for maintenance...
...plant also completes a reshuffle of the electric steel lineup. Tom Girdler's Republic is now far & away the biggest producer, with 1,322,000 tons capacity on hand or on order. First for many years, Timken Roller Bearing now runs a poor second with 356,000 tons. Third is specialty steelmaker Crucible with 261,000 tons...