Subject ¥F.N.B. Defects. To Mr. Bigelow From Grant F. Goddard Reference pec, 5, Dec. 8, Date Jamary 12, 1951 M. and Jan. our report "Automatic Repairs a special report showing total number Attached with Browning is 10. replaced since you brought locking block guide only. the Made customers, In the future we will on the report of that the customer was charged for this indicate No Charge" of broken together locking blocks this problem up. This breakage concerns the These repairs were charged to the various ing blocks at show "Repairs all replacements Made at No of broken Charge" but will work. This will lockbe done to give us an indication if the problem is serious or not, Such breakage has not been shown before on the defect report because we have always charged the customer for the new part. Here in St. Louis inStances of breakage have as yet not increased to the point where they would be considered unusual as compared to past years! experience. ‘The following schedule shows the usage of locking blocks for 197, 1950 (no record was calculated for 198): 12 Gauge 19,7 19,9 and 16 Gauge 767 423 36h, 561 251 35h, a 219 Shop Trade 1950 Shop Trade Balance i" The usage year. 199 on hand 1-1-51 251 " order — factory trend indicates that 277 21,00 less locking blocks 1100 are being used each In the attached report of "Repairs Made at No Charge" we have made measurements on guns returned due to failure to eject of head space and the tolerances between the front and rear faces of the locking block and the breech bolt. This was done to give us an idea of how these tolerances are running on rather new guns. As mentioned over the telephone, all which were received from the factory face ground off to an extent where of the spare in August there is locking of 19,9 blocks have insufficient metal proper fitting in the breech bolt. Enclosed are two samples 16 gauge and one for 12 gauge. As we have no samples of the on hand the front for -—~ one for type we