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Correspondence from F.C. Russel to all district managers and agents of H.H. Roberston Co. Building Products describing the construction photographs of the Goodyear-Zeppelin airship factory and dock in Akron, Ohio, United States

August 9, 1929

Correspondence

sheet: 27.2 x 21 cm

PH1991:0262:001

stamped - in black ink, u.c.: "HH BUILDING PRODUCTS / ROBERTSON CO BUILDING PRODUCTS / PITTSBURG, PA." stamped - in purple ink, u.r.: "HH ROBERTSON CO / PHILADELPHIA / REC'D AUG 19 1929 / Referred to ................ / Ans'd ....................." inscribed - typewritten in black ink: "August 9, 1929 / S. P. Bulletin No. 121 / TO ALL DISTRICT MANAGERS AND AGENTS: / Attached to this bulletin are five "progress" pictures of the work on / the Goodyear-Zeppelin Airship Factory and Dock at Akron. / This set of pictures will, we believe, help you to convey to interested / prospects and customers an idea of the size of this great project, and the extent / and importance of our participation in it. / The first two pictures (in fact, all five) will help you to visualize / the unique design and magnitude of the steel framework, and the unusual methods / and equipment used in erecting it. / Note the size of the locomotive cranes. These cranes are used to hoist / the steel members in place in building up the side sections of the arches, and in / assembling the center sections before they are hoisted and set in place on the / side sections. / The first picture shows the huge counter weights used in hoisting the / center sections. Each center section weights 320 tons. The four counter weights / used in hoisting a center section weigh, collectively, 260 tons. The additional / 60-ton weight needed to hoist a center section in place is supplied by utilizing / the lifting power of four of the locomotive cranes--one hoocked on at each corner / of the arch. / In the first picture, a center section is shown resting on the ground; / the counter weights can be seen near the tops of the side sections. In the second / photograph, the center section has been lifted into place, and the counter weights / can be seen on the ground. Note, in the first and second photographs, and the "bents" / which hold up the side sections until the center section has been erected in place. / As the third picture shows, the arches are built up in alternative bays. / The intermediate steel work is filled in when the arches at either side have been / completed. The intermediate steel framework is hoisted in place by means of the / "traveller" shown on top of the arches in the third picture. / The third, fourth, and fifth photographs show the progress in the appli- / cation of our V-Beam sheets, as of July 23. Several of us inspected our work at / this stage and all agreed that it was a beautiful job. The V-Beam sheets present / a wonderfully fine appearance. / We shall be sending you more of these "progress" pictures from time to / time, as the work advances. We suggest htat you keep them all together in a / single binder. / Yours very truly, / F. C. Russell / Sales Promotion Manager / FCR:MMW"