Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1954 [PAGE 438]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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The estimates have been checked by the Physical Plant and the architects and found to be reasonable. T h e Director of the Physical Plant and the Comptroller recommend the approval of these increases in the contracts. Funds are available in the budget for this project. I concur. O n m o t i o n of M r . H i c k m a n , t h e s e i n c r e a s e s in c o n t r a c t s w e r e authorized as r e c o m m e n d e d . PURCHASES (18) T h e Director of Purchases 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. I concur. Item One National typewriter bookkeeping machine Model No. 32-06-10 (38) 20" with removable form bars No. 4RB Four pulse transformers Four resonant charging reactors Two network capacitors Department Business Office, Chicago Professional Colleges Electrical Engineering Vendor Cost National Cash Register Co .. $3 552 20 Chicago f.o.b. delivered and installed General Electric Co., 3 308 00 Springfield f.o.b. Schenectady, N.Y., with freight allowed Haller, Raymond, and 7 500 00 Brown, Inc., f.o.b. State College, Pa. State College, Pa. 2 846 44 Tom Purvis, Mattoon f.o.b. delivered The Oliver Corp., 3 297 40 Chicago f.o.b. delivered

Two rafax units

Engineering Research Laboratory Physical Plant College of Pharmacy, Drug Plant Experiment Station

Four 1952 Ford 4-door sedans less trade-in allowance for two 1949 Chevrolets and two 1949 Fords One OC-3-42 Oliver industrial tractor with 10" tracks, electric starting, steel plates, temperature gauge and muffler with one 3FS-H Ware loader, hydraulic control bucket, backfiller blade, and one 3-point Hitch kit and valve Two television cameras and auxiliary equipment 20,000 lbs. white lead paste One car of No. j and better Douglas fir lumber Parts for 3000 kw. General Electric Turbine 45701 Three-year comprehensive elevator liability insurance on four freight and seventeen passenger elevators located in the Chicago Illini Union Building, Dentistry-MedicinePharmacy Building, Research and Educational Hospitals, and the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute at the Chicago Professional Colleges, with limits of $ 100,000/^500,000 for bodily injury and $25,000 for property damage

Division of Communications Physical Plant Storeroom Physical Plant Storeroom Physical Plant

General Precision Laboratory, Inc., Pleasantville, N.Y. National Lead Co., Chicago Long-Bell Lumber Co., Chicago General Electric Co., St. Louis, Mo. 0. J. Wheeler Co., Chicago

49 758 00 f.o.b. delivered 3 910 00 f.o.b. Urbana 5 285 58 f.o.b. car, Urbana

3 193 00

f.o.b. Lynn, Mass.

Physical Plant, Chicago

3 444 02

O n m o t i o n of M r . H i c k m a n , t h e s e p u r c h a s e s w e r e a u t h o r i z e d . T H E C O M P T R O L L E R S REPORT OF CONTRACTS (19) The Comptroller's report of contracts executed during the period tember 1 to 30, 1952.

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