Letter, James Gleason to Gleason Works office
A letter from James Gleason to the Gleason Works office. Jim reports about various orders he has secured while on a sales trip and notes that business seems to be improving.
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The New England Navigation Company
On Board S.S. Providence
Sept 19 – 1911
Gleason Works
Enclosed please
find order from Brown & Sharpe
for Two 11” Generators.
B & S will want two 18” Generators
out of the second lot to be equipped
with the new cams.
B. & S. are running nights in their
Bevel Gear Dept.
Providence Eng Wks need another 18”
machine but have not succeeded in
persuading the General Motors Co to
place the order.
I am bound for New York will call on
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a number of concerns in that
vicinity.
It looks like a good time to keep
on the road business seems to be
improving.
Yours,
Jim.