This series is divided into eight subseries: construction, maintenance, mill tests (external), mill test (internal), mill reports, office of price stabilization, shipping and war departments. The construction sub-series has inclusive dates of 1880-1953 with the bulk of the records between 1940-1953. The records include material related to various companies that did construction work for Clifton Manufacturing Company including records about construction in the mill villages as well as the reconstruction of the mills after the flood of 1903. There are blueprints, receipts, specifications and vouchers of various buildings and construction sites. The maintenance sub-series has inclusive and bulk dates of 1930-1958. Maintenance contains records on equipment and agreements and lists of maintenance equipment that was company property. The mill tests (external) sub-series has inclusive and bulk dates of 1933-1962. Clifton Manufacturing Company hired a variety of companies that would test performance in various department of the mills. These records include production tables, charts and analysis of the department tested and recommendations to appropriate department heads and to the president of the company. The mill tests (internal) sub-series has inclusive and bulk dates of 1933-1963. In addition to the outside testing firms that Clifton would hire, the company performed its own performance tests. This would include nearly all departments in all six mills. These records include test results, performance charts, tables, personnel and departmental analysis. The mill reports sub-series has inclusive dates of 1880-1966 and bulk dates of 1930-1966. Mill reports is the largest sub-series. Records from main departments include reports from the card room, cloth room, and reports on mill return, power, spinning room, superintendents, truck and warehouse, and weave room production. Some of these reports are in daily, weekly, monthly and yearly order. These show in detail the operation of the mills and the output that each mill produced over the time frame of the report. Several of the records have ten to twenty year record runs, providing a good indication of the mill production over a period of time. Also included in mill reports are production reports. These include cotton reports, daily production sheets, drawing reports (the process of increasing the length per unit weight of laps, slivers, slubbers or rovings), filling reports (the yarn running from selvage to selvage at right angles to the warp), fire inspection and power stoppage reports, gains and loss pounds reports, hank sheets (applied to slubbing or roving that indicates the yarn number count), high/low production, interdraft production, looms run, nep counts (a small knot of entangled fibers that usually will not straightern to a parallel position during carding or drafting), overseers reports, personnel and production reports, production reports, pick sheets (a single filling thread carried by one trip of the weft-insertion device across the loom), roller shop costs, rush sheets, slubber (a machine used in textile processes prior to spinning that reduces the sliver and inserts the first twist) and speeder reports, spooler reports, supply room reports, and yarn cost summaries.
