146 PROPOSED SYSTEM. 



work, the most important ; red for other work for issue to the 

 Army ; blue is for the local work of the post ; white is for sub- 

 orders given by a subordinate in the execution of any of the 

 above. The back is available for any sketches, etc. 



The receipt is to be punched in its proper place on his supe- 

 rior's ticket by a foreman receiving an order ticket from him : 

 this makes him accountable for the order. When his part of 

 the job is done, he punches out his number on the completion 

 line and returns the ticket to him from whom he received it. He 

 keeps no other record. 



(NOTE. Foremen and others are known by certain numbers, according to a plan 

 described page 91.) 



The authority is abbreviated in the proper place, viz. : O. O. 

 (Ordnance Office) ; O. S. (Order of Supplies) ; Req. (Requisi- 

 tion) ; C. O. (Commanding Officer), etc., on the originals, or by 

 the proper punch mark on sub-orders. 



Use of the Order Tickets. 



Taking the simplest case first : supposing that there is no inter- 

 mediary between the office and the shops, and that there is only 

 one foreman ; the duplicate tickets go with the order book to the 

 foreman. He compares them with the book, signs the latter and 

 immediately returns it to the office. 



If he has some one whom he can put to work at once, say a 

 blacksmith, he gives him one ticket and puts the other in the 

 rack, see page 92, corresponding to the department where the 

 man is employed. 



If there is no labor available, he sticks both tickets, folded to- 

 gether, in a similar rack near by. Thus he has always standing 

 before him an exact epitome (i) of what work is in progress, 

 and (2) of what is awaiting attention. 



Each workman should have a sma'll rack over his bench in 

 which to display such orders as he may have in charge ; thus 

 giving to all, from the foremen to the Commanding Officer, an 

 opportunity of seeing at a glance what work is going on and who 

 is doing it, whether the workman is present or not. See page 93. 



