BELGIAN orric® Subject __Magnum-Superposeds To Val A, Browning Peon John V. Reference um—— July 23, 1954 Your memorand Date Browning July—30, 1954 £. ww of barrels confident in end the before However, you requested by the end of October, and for two 300 extra trouble not will the the of and promised, harrels us in delivering that all the 550 Magnums Louis St up made has F.N. our lack the I am Magnum order. now on order will be delivered year. an estimate of magnum deliveries in St Louis at this point I confine my estimate to 300 units reasons? conservative 1) To be on the will be nearer cables, I have certain. side. Actually I have hopes that it 400, but to avoid disappointments followed by frantic scaled it back to 300, quantity about which I am fairly | 2) Because I am farced to schedule some of the Magnum order beyond that date in order to insure a minimulhof work for our organization during the last two months we had no indication production Magnum (to November 30). of our yeary the that At the inception of magnum order should be delivered in one lump at the expense of other needed specifications. Al~ though part of the order was scheduled immediately in one series, ergo the 300-400, the remainder was spread until the end of the year, Since the Magnum order is a considerable chunk of our total order, and made for it by cancelling roughly equivalent number of other we to at present have replace magnums In other words, no other specification which are speeded up. although it would be left possible and thus deliveries even further than I have our group without any work left a good month to begin on a 1955 order. We are well aware down and rearranged the coneession must be made that the customer which to can be speed room was specifications, pushed up back magnums already, to do so would leave anyway before we can expect calls the tune, and I have remaining months! quota as far as possible, to keep our productive organization. o/s pared but some