Standardizing on commercial designs, better cost analyzing by user, less "twelfth-hour" ordering, budgeted expenditures and purchasing-department latitude in bargaining are important factors in securing better and more economical tool purchasing by railroads; author advises against specially made tools for railroad use when reasonable cooperation among users and makers would add benefits of mass manufacture to production of satisfactory equipment for all purposes. Address before Am. Ry. Tool Foremen's Assn.


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    Title :

    Purchasing officer discusses tool buying


    Additional title:

    Ry. Age


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Railway Age ; 85 , n 12 ; p 534-535


    Publication date :

    1928


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English