Boys Technical High School - Artisan Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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PRODUCHON FOR WAR mousmnfzs gldelfzfiaf mr aferia 5 This Machine Shop project, which was approved by a special resolution of the Milwaukee School Board, received nationwide newspaper and magazine publicity. Boys' Tech was highly com- plimented by Kearney and Trecker officials as one of their out- standing sub-contractors. The scrap work, that is, the material spoiled in production was rfduced to a very low percentage here, according to company officials. Recently the Machine Shop received a Kearney and Trecker 2 H Miller to compensate for their effort in making essential materials for war production. 21

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macfzine agzofo !Qf00!vLce5 Working on defense orders from the Kearney and Trecker Corporation and the Oilgear Company, students of the Boys' Tech Machine Shop turned out about 5000 machine parts during 1942. These included reverse bevel gear shafts, primary feed shafts, knee clamp shafts, and starting lever segments. Some 68 students worked during and after school producing these machine parts, some of which had to be accurate to two ten-thousandths part of an inch. They also made tools and gauges for processing and measuring the accuracy of their defense Work. Students of the Mechanical Drafting Department collaborated by making working drawings of these machine parts. at l from Q rr OR WA

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52,4 WOM Wm Combining mass production and assembly line methods with manual skill for the finer, exacting work, students of Tech's two Cabinet Shops and the Pattern Shop, early in the war, made 625 model airplanes of about twenty different designs, both American and foreign, built to exact scale, to be used at navy training centers. Mr. I-lanel of our Pattern Shop was chairman of the Milwaukee inspection committee. 3 S 22