3 i8 APPENDIX. 



Form of order. 



The shop-order book provides a place for the record of every 

 order originating in the office. A special order here receives its 

 serial number, and work of a general nature worth special entry 

 takes the number of its proper standing order. 



To distribute orders, and for other purposes, the order ticket 

 is devised. See duplicate form separated by a perforated line, 

 page 319. A punch-mark of special design in the " authority " 

 space, indicates the giver. 



Standing orders and their numbers are circulated in lists 

 which are soon memorized. 



Course of tickets. 



I shall describe the simplest case first, as its principles apply 

 in all others. 



1. For short jobs, on which only one kind of work is done at 

 a time, single tickets serve. 



They are displayed in a rack in each foreman's office, while the 

 work is in his shop. When the work is done he punches out 

 his number* in the marginal line headed " Completion," and 

 passes the work and the ticket with it to the next foreman in 

 order. This is continued until the ticket reaches the office, 

 where the date of its completion may be entered in the shop- 

 order book. 



2. When work is to begin or continue in more than one 

 department at a time, separate tickets must be made out for 

 each department. These issue directly from, and are return- 

 able directly to, the office, as soon as each department's work on 

 the job is done. 



* Men are known by the numbers of their shops or of the departments in which 

 they work. In each department they are ranged by invariable numbers according to 

 their importance, seniority, etc. Thus of shop, or department 3, the foreman is No. 

 301, the next man 302, and so on. This allows for too men in each department. If 

 this number should be exceeded, many expedients of correction are possible. M. A. 

 below signifies Master Armorer in arsenals ; in private shops S. might be used for 

 Superintendent. 



