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signs, playground apparatus, concrete posts, light standards and other 

 forms of concrete work. This can be done at all times where a permanent 

 shop force is maintained and during the off season where certain competent 

 men who are on outside work during the open season are retained the year 

 round. A repair shop is often included as a part of a structure used for 

 other purposes and may be in a separate structure or different divisions 

 of the shop may be in different structures. This is determined, usually, by 

 the size of the system and by the extent to which the department enters 

 into its own repair and minor construction work. The example of Racine, 

 Wisconsin, page 655, shows a combined barn and shop. In Davenport, 

 Iowa, the shop is located in a structure that is partly devoted to a golf 

 clubhouse. (See Chapter IV, page 158). In St. Louis there is more than 

 one structure devoted to repair and construction work. 



In large systems the repair and construction work may be divided 

 among several distinct shops, as, for example, a carpenter, paint, black- 

 smith, machine, electrical, concrete, automobile, wagon shop, respectively, 

 each in charge of a foreman skilled in his particular trade, the whole, how- 

 ever, being conducted as a unit under the general supervision of the super- 

 intendent, or an assistant superintendent, or a superintendent of main- 

 tenance. As a general rule these various divisional shops occupy space 

 units in a single structure, although in some instances some of the divisional 

 shops may be housed in separate structures. 



Examples of shop equipment. The small shop at Racine, Wisconsin, 

 is equipped with a good machine lathe, drill press, large grinding stone, 

 emery wheel, a fourteen-inch circular saw, a band saw, a planer, a forge, 

 a good workbench and adequate hand tools. All machinery is operated by 

 electricity. This shop is deemed adequate to handle the necessary repair 

 and minor construction work for a park system such as a city from fifty 

 to one hundred thousand might have. It would appear, however, that park 

 departments in smaller cities might find this minimum equipment needful. 



The following is an inventory, as of 1925-1926, of the Minneapolis Park 

 Department shop equipment, together with the price of each item: 



SHOP EQUIPMENT 



Price Amount Price Amount 



2 Chisels, turning $20.00 $40.00 I Machine, punch and shear . . . $320.00 $320.00 



I Crane, portable 100.00 100.00 i Machine, press, Manly 22-ton 125.00 125.00 



I Compressor, air 200.00 200.00 I Motor, electric, J h.p 18.00 18.00 



I Clock, wall 9.00 9.00 I Motor, electric, ^4 h.p 36.00 36.00 



I Forge, blacksmith 35-OO 35-OO 4 Motors, electric, I h.p 45-OO 180.00 



3 Grinders, bench 25.00 75-OO I Motor, electric, \% h.p 45.00 45.00 



I Machine, drill press, Barnes . . 300.00 300.00 6 Motors, electric, 2 h.p 54-OO 324.00 



I Machine, lathe with chuck. . . 400.00 400.00 I Motor, electric, 3 h.p 54.00 54-OO 



I Machine, hack saw, power, I Motor, electric, 5 h.p 67.50 67.50 



Racine 95-OO 95.00 3 Motors, electric, "j]4 h.p 135.00 405.00 



