Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1946 [PAGE 984]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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2. Lounge furniture for the Old Gymnasium Annex Residence Hall, from Marshall Field and Company, Chicago, at a cost of $2,150. 3. T a n k semi-trailers, 2,000 gallon capacity, for the Institute of Aeronautics and the Airport, from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio, at a cost of $1,800. 4. Eight sets of four-color process plates, for the Print Shop, from G. R. Grubb & Co., Champaign, at a cost of $1,233.08. 5. Electric water heaters for portable houses,'for the Physical Plant Department, as follows: from A. O. Smith Corp., Milwaukee, 100 at $47-19, or a total of $4,719; from A. D. Sackett, Champaign, 87 at $50.79, or a total of $4418.73. 6. Tables for dishwasher, for the Department of Home Economics, from Stearnes Company, Chicago, at a cost of $1,095, f-o.b. Urbana.-' 7. Hollywood beds, 230, for temporary housing units, for t h e Physical Plant Department, from A. D. Sackett, Champaign, at a cost of $5,750 delivered and installed. 8. Herbarium cases for installation in the Department of Botany, from Jack Sheean, Agent for Interior Steel Equipment Co., Cleveland, at a cost of $4,985.05. 9. I.E.S. floor lamps, 275, for the Physical Plant Department, from Clark Linen and Equipment Company, Chicago, at a cost of $2,241.25 f.o.b. Decatur. 10. Pin-up lamps, 962, for the Physical Plant Department, from A. D. Sackett, Champaign, at a cost of $1,972.10. 11. Book paper, 1400 reams 40 lb. English finish, for the Office Supply Store, from Bradner Smith and Company, Chicago, at a cost of $4,664.80 f.o.b. Urbana. (This purchase is to replace the purchase of paper for the same purpose authorized by the Board on November 23, 1945, Minutes, page 916.) O n m o t i o n of M r . W i l l i a m s o n , t h i s r e p o r t w a s r e c e i v e d f o r r e c o r d , a n d t h e a c t i o n of t h e C o m p t r o l l e r in a u t h o r i z i n g t h e s e p u r c h a s e s w a s approved and confirmed. PURCHASES RECOMMENDED (15) T h e Purchasing Agent has proposed and the Comptroller recommends the following purchases. Unless otherwise specified the purchase in each case is recommended on the basis of lowest bid, ceiling price, or because the item is noncompetitive. I concur in the recommendations. 1. One spectrophotometer and one ultraviolet accessory set, for the Department of Horticulture, from the Central Scientific Company, Chicago, at a cost

of $1,052.

2. Two No. 6028 "A" label safe cabinets, for the Registrar's Office, from Remington Rand, Inc., Chicago, at a cost of $1,066 f.o.b. Urbana. 3. Cable, 1500 feet, for power supply to new Physics Research Laboratory, for the Physical Plant Department, from the Simplex W i r e and Cable Company, Chicago, at a cost of $1,759.50 f.o.b. Cambridge, Mass., freight allowed to Urbana. 4. T h e following items for the Department of Electrical Engineering: 2 Model 200D Hewlett-Packard Oscillators 1 Type 205A-G audio signal generator I Type 325B noise and distortion analyzer 1 Type 300A harmonic wave analyzer 2 Type 210A square wave generators 2 Type 400A vacuum tube voltmeters I Model 100B Hewlett-Packard secondary frequency standard 1 Model 500A Hewlett-Packard electronic frequency meter from Alfred Crossley and Associates, Chicago, Agent for the Hewlett-Packard Company, at a cost of $2,800 f.o.b. Palo Alto, California; 1 Type 233 20" demonstration type cathode ray oscillograph 1 Type 248 cathode ray oscillograph 4 Type 185A electronic switches 5 Type 208B 5" cathode ray oscillographs