Invoices
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File Room, Invoice Dept.
(dated and arranged alphabetically)
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Recorded in Invoice Ledger
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Checked against Orders
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Payment

Fuel requirements for the current year, for instance, were estimated at nearly 30,000 tons, and, in spite of certain official privileges extended to the Department, shipments of this magnitude called for very special attention, particularly at a time when great public anxiety was felt in securing fuel supply.

Gasoline requirements comprised about 16,000 gallons per month, and this, owing to the limited storage capacity at the various wings, was very carefully watched and traced in transit. It speaks well for the Department that during a period when the railway system was congested with freight, flying was not at any time interfered with owing to shortage of this supply.

The Transportation Section was indebted to the wonderful coöperation of contractors and railway companies for assistance in overcoming delays due to this congestion, as well as to the great shortage of raw material.

Business between the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation and the British Ministry of Munitions was carried in the Section’s purchasing ledgers, as well as records of all shipments from the Canadian Aeroplanes Limited to the Signal Service of the U.S. Government. The amount of material shipped to Texas in 1917 from the factory amounted to not less than four and a half million dollars. This was a mutually acceptable arrangement by which training in the U.S. was carried out most successfully and the output of the factory maintained at a satisfactory point.

Conjointly with the Purchasing Section, there must be considered its kindred bureau, the Traffic Branch. This body traced and delivered all materials to their proper destination, checked all freight and express bills, and applied them against their proper invoices and orders. Investigation of conditions governing freight rates was a special study, and in one instance the Traffic Branch was able to prove to the Canadian Freight Association that the minimum carload weight previously required on shipments of aeroplanes and spares was in point of fact unjustified considering the light nature of the material. This was subsequently increased, resulting in a marked saving in the transportation of such material to and from the various camps. The Texas movement involved 375 cars and 5,000 men. This was an admirably managed undertaking, so successful that within five days from the date of leaving Canada our machines were climbing into the air above Texas aerodromes.

CONSTRUCTION OF SWIMMING POOL, CAMP BORDEN.
(Under Direction of Aviation Department.)