[ARC5] Re: ARC-5 production data

[J. Forster]

The information I was looking for, as the originator of this thread,  was
something like a rough order of magnitude for each of the sets (eg: 400,
60,000,...). I don't care about exact numcers.

-John


Gordon White wrote:

>     At one time I estimated from the contract data I had that about
> 1,000,000 individual receivers, transmitters and modulators of all types
> had been produced from 1939 through 1945. This was an educated guess
> after looking at the contracts, taking into account the stop-orders that
> went out in early November 1944 and the re-start orders that went out in
> December 1944 after 1) the advent in the Pacific of the Kamikases and
> 2) the Battle of the Bulge, that indicated the war was not going to be
> over by Christmas '44. I tried to take into account the cancellations
> sent out on VJ-Day. Obviously this was an only somewhat educated guess
> in 1965 (or so). Maybe it is high. It included A.R.C., Western Electric,
> Stromberg-Carlson,  Llewyt, Colonial Radio and possibly one other
> sub-contract producer of everything that was associated with  Type K,
> GT/RBD, ATA/ARA, AN/ARC-5, etc.
>
>     Unfortunately, I learned when I tried to go back into the Signal
> Corps' and Navy archives that after I looked at a lot of the files they
> had been shredded. The federal Archives may (probably does) still have
> some of the Army stuff. I don't know if any Navy files survived. So I
> doubt any more definitive count can now be made. Possibly a review of
> what I wrote in CQ would be in order. Dave and Mike have scrutinized
> that data pretty well.
>
>     I think I know where my notes are and I will try to revisit them
> when I get a chance.
>
> - Gordon White
>
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