[Papers]. 1911-1968.

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[Papers]. 1911-1968.

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Collection dates largely from Strang's employment at Whitin and relates to textile manufacturing equipment, its design and limitations. Includes experiment and test results, correspondence, memoranda and reports, 1951-1960, particularly on pickers, cards, and spinning rings; picker and card tests, 1950-1961; drawings, 1911-1961, for cards and pickers; patent correspondence, 1954-1959; patent reports on testing fibers and carding, 1937, 1962; articles and reports, 1935, 1941-1960; and reference information files, 1952-1968, with carding machinery statistics, history and developments, and environmental effects on textiles.

2 boxes ; 27 x 13 x 32 cm.

American Textile History Museum Library

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American Textile History Museum Library

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Whitin Machine Works (Whitinsville, Mass.)

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Contains documents prepared for Whitin by Booz, Allen & Hamilton, management consultants, including a survey of accounting operations and the data processing system, 1960; a recap of organization recommendations, 1960; a preliminary survey of Zurn Industries, Inc., as an acquisition candidate, 1962; and a review of the sales and profit outlook for J.D. Ferry Co. and American Type Founders, 1963; both companies were Whitin Machine Works acquisitions. Also contains a report, 1963, by Whitin on...

Strang, Peter McDonald.

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Strang, an engineer, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1918. He worked in the manufacture of mill supplies until 1927 when he became senior cotton technologist for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. He also spent some time working at M.I.T. on patents for cotton machinery. During World War II he did research for the U.S. Navy and later worked for the Institute of Textile Technology in Charlottesville, Va. In 1951, he became a research engineer for Whitin Machine Works, Whit...