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We sold them some trucks, duplicate of some locomotive trucks they had, but to be used on a motor car, at their request. But Rudy failed to warm them the trucks might not be good for the higher speed. Well, they are [[underlined]] terrible [[/underlined]] and Mr. Gill, V.P. & Gen. Mgr. of the P. & N., is a crusty, nasty, vituperous crank apparently, is simply raising HELL! Kjobeth was down there and made certain recommendations, among them cylindrical treads, which Gill simply threw out the window - ancient stuff! wouldn't try it. Now, Rudy has to go down there and try to settle it, and Rudy doesn't know the mechanical end of it, and Gill once told him so. And Coles, manager of our Charlotte Office, is about as tough and nasty as Gill and won't give us any support. So poor Rudy is in a d- unenviable position when he arrives in Atlanta tomorrow. And the tough part is, we stocked on our own hook, an extra set of locomotive equipment which we're afraid now, they'll leave us with.

Gordon McDonald has had quite some experience with the P & N on substations and he tells me they are a bunch of bastards if there ever was one. The have a strangle hold on Charlotte shipping and by horse trading, jewing, frigging, penny pinching, finnagling and otherwise gypping everyone they make a pile of money. Everything they have insofar as possible is pieced together out of second hand stuff. When they buy anything, they get the (GE) & [[circled W]] going against each other and finally get them jewed down to where neither can make any money. They take an old [[circled W]] quotation which is low and tell the GE that's the [[circled W]] offer. After the GE has squeezed down below it, they go at [[circled W]] with the GE offer and jew them down some more.

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