. Dr. Bohmmaller informed me that 6 of their engravers were capable of performing high grade fancy engraving; these had escaped from Suhl. Apprentice Training = The company runs an apprentice training school which has from the Eastern gathered boys about 16 years of age mostly zone. There are about 45 boys in the school at present, are lodged who and fed in quarters in two outbuil- dings on the company ground. They are taught one of several gunsmithing specialties = engraver, assembler, barrel striker. The course usually lasts one year, but some boys will be allowed to go on for three years if they show special aptitude. The best man from Suhl was sacrificed to run and teach the school, and other there. skilled men in the plant do regular teaching stints Designing the Installation = The dimensioning of the parts is executed in the regular manner through sub assembly and assembly developments to assign tolerances. drawn up fixtures, tools, pect I was not allowed much time in their drawing rooms; that there was some work which they did not want me and if Herr Spiegleberg and Lists gauges is to be believed, of operations designed the work from must are them. I susto see, be well but done. He says the receiver and barrel parts of their double barrel gun are interchangeable. My visit of the assembly department seemed to confirm this in that I could find no fitting or filing of these parts, barrel no smoke lamps, dyes, or other fitting work. The only filing characteristics of double to be seen in their assem bly room was of the exterior of the receiver (false side plates etc...). The barrel locking luggs and the receiver were merely ‘polished with emery paper. The answers to my repeated questions on this point were always the same, that the receiver and barrels immediately go together. | Yet a quick perusal of their receiver drawing revealed no tolerance less than .O5mm. and this supported by the complete lack of grinding equipment in their parts department exterior of the barrels are honed longitudinally not makes me still rather The fixtures dubious were very on this well (even the ground) point. made. Sears Roebuck = I inquired about the arrangements made between themselves and Sears Roebuck during the recent visit of Mr. Quayle to their plant. I was told that Sears was interested in importing their double barrel shotgun with ejectors and a single trigger, but that no definite decision had yet been reached by Sears.