Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — 100 Parts; 1,400 Operations. [ARTICLE]

100 Parts; 1,400 Operations.

The Springfield rifle has more than a hundred parts, and it requires more than 1,400 distinct factory operations to produce the finished piece. The plants that are now turning out foreign rifles after two years of hard work have not yet attained their expected capacity. To turn these private plants from, the .manufacturing of European rifles to the manufacture of the Springfield rifle would, if undertaken today, require not less than 18 months to get first results and at least three years to get capacity output.— Quotation by Peter Clark Macfarlane in “Mobilizing America,” in CoMler’a Weekly.