Considering not be able to the get delivery picture 3,500-4,000 double for a moment, automatics in we will St Louis by next January. Our rate of production during November has only been about 30 units per day and in fact at present it is below that rate because part of our personnel is engaged in reinspecting packed guns. With the uncertainty concerning quality revealed by your trials I had not wished to push it any further. In addition our losses through excessive handling have been greater than I expected. F.N. has over 300 guns in stock which were originally made for us. As soon as we finish the reinspection, we can fairly quickly attain a rate of 50 units per day as I indicated to you in New-York. We have concentrated upon amassing a substantial stock of finished (engraved, browned,and anodized) parts and we are in excellent shape for such a move now that the appropriate moment has arrived. Nevertheless even with the increase to 50 guns per day in the near future we cannot furnish you the requisite number of guns. As nearly as I can veries with present lined below: Shipment estimate personnel | Average Daily Production in the interval In at this will time, likely our near follow the Number of Double Automatics in the term delicourse out- Total shipped shipment stock at present: 1,200 November December 29, 23, 1954 1954 LO 690 1,310 690 2,000 January 8, 1955 50 600 2,600 January 20, oO 500 3,100 1955 We could alter this picture somewhat by pushing for a production of 100 guns per day which as indicated to you in New-York should not be too difficult to obtain (although of course it will take a little longer than a rate of 50 per day). This would give us a production of approximately 2,000 double automatics per month as Harm requested in his memorandum of November 19. However this rate is only requested.for a very short time and in the Committee Minutes you still suggest a limit of 15,000 guns for the whole year. This would mean that we would engage the new personnel and make the effort per day, then only 2 or 3 months later duction to less than half that figure, planned production of 50 guns per day, unit limit for the year. to reach a production of 100 guns we would have to cut this proand actually less than the presently in order to stay within the 15,000