Abstract :
MR. W. WILCOCK (Chairman) : I would like to know what percentage of the component cost should be allocated to the tool ? When you mentioned, Mr. Kirchner, the built up or composite tool, I noticed from the screen that there appeared to be an absence of back support to the outer members of the stamping of the " E." How do you avoid these two pieces from parting company and eventually bursting, with material penetrating between the j oins ? I have had just a little experience in that direction, and I have always found it policy to sink the strip of tool steel into the cast iron, to give it a reasonable backing. Probably you will be able to tell me how to overcome the separating of the particular die that you illustrated. I notice also on the table a bonnet side, I believe belonging to a Ford. It appears to me to be a very fine piece of work. I understand you produce the whole of the louvres at one drop. Coming back to the question of the price of tools to produce a job of similar character to that, I can quite see you are on very favourable ground in producing vast quantities like a Ford side, but at the same time it is not worth consideration to try and produce these louvres one at a time ? Would this not be to the advantage of your production ?
