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(3) (a) Carpenters' and wheelers' shops, where carriages might be 
made and repaired; (b) Coopers' shop ; (<?) Painters' shop. 
(4) Collar-makers' shop, for repair of harness, tents, &c. 
(5) Laboratory, where all the simpler kinds of ammunition could be 
made up. 
(6) Armoury workshops, with all the lathes and tools for the repair 
of small-arms. 
In all workshops there are certain principles which must be observed. 
These are : economy of material, facility of manufacture, proper applica¬ 
tion of skilled labour, and quickness in completion of work. 
The charge of these workshops is so heavy that in any large arsenal 
it should be entrusted to an Asst.-Superintendent, well trained in the 
manufacture of warlike stores, assisted by a D.-A.-Superintendent, who 
should be a practical mechanic. Each workshop must have at its head 
a man responsible for discipline and work, and the prevention of idling 
and wastage. There should be an expense store, where the material to be 
worked up should be kept and accounted for. In each workshop there 
must be proper places for tools, to be put away at the conclusion of the day. 
The necessary account of material must be simple in form, so that the 
time of those superintending manufacture may not be taken from the 
first objects of attention. Stores to be used in construction would be 
drawn in the usual manner from the storehouses of the arsenal, on the 
authority of the Asst.-Superintendent. The Day Book would show stores 
received to complete orders for work on No. — Requisition, and work 
issued. A daily report of work executed, pud workmen and material 
employed, would form the basis upon which the administrative depart¬ 
ment would show the cost of manufacture. An Order Book would 
contain the necessary copies of orders and instructions. 
Spaces must be set apart for stores received and for issue to the other 
branches of the arsenal; and for all constructions the Asst.-Superin¬ 
tendent in charge must be responsible that they are according to the 
authorised pattern. Stores manufactured must pass through the hands 
of the proper Storeholder, by whom they would be delivered to the 
D.-A.-S. of the Issue Department, as this routine is necessary, in order 
that the former may know of the completion of his portion of the 
requisition. 
Th e personnel of the workshops would consist of Asst.-Superintendent, 
Dep.-Asst.-Superintendent asforeman, collar-makers, carpenters, coopers, 
smiths, painters, engineers, armourers, wheelers, laboratory workmen, 
and labourers. 
All labourers might be attached to this portion of the arsenal, and 
detailed daily for the requirements of any portion of it, so that the work 
may be executed wholesale, and not dispersed over the whole establish¬ 
ment, when it becomes impossible to supervise it efficiently. 
C. Administration. 
The duties of Superintendent demand an aptitude for administration 
and a knowledge of manufacture. An intimate technical knowledge is, 
however, not so necessary as the power of utilising the knowledge of 
others in regard to details of manufacture, for the production of the 
