Bridgeport, Conn.
We are enclosing herewith three photographs showing work in our vestibule school for women on gauge finishing work. The picture of the six women in a line with the instructor at the end shows the pupils on gauge finishing work, lapping plug, thread gauges, snap gauges, etc. These women have proven themselves very apt, but difficulty is being experienced, due to the fact that the necessary laps requiring highly skilled mechanics are often made defective, on account of the feeling of the skilled tool and gauge makers who do not wish any of the women to do any of this work.
The women show a better spirit and give a much better production, at least three times as much as the men do on the same work. The one photograph showing the six women in a row and the instructor at the far end, shows a group in the school lapping these gauges.
Group in training room lapping gauges. H. E. Harris Engineering Co.
The two photographs of the same woman, Mrs. H——, show her in one photograph lapping a thread gauge which has to be correct within .0002. She is about four times as proficient as any man that we have in the place. The other photograph shows her measuring the same thread gauge between the lapping operation with the three-wire system, which is rather a difficult feat of measurement.
(Signed) Harry E. Harris,
President.
Lapping a thread within .0002 inch. H. E. Harris Engineering Co.
