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[[preprinted]] 180 [[/preprinted]] drove to [[underlined]] Hecht's [[/underlined]]. [[strikethrough]] Sperry there [[/strikethrough]] Met several other people among them an italian inventor [[underlined]] Carbone [[/underlined]], wide awake, vivacious little fellow who has new arc lamp and new rubber tire. French, german, english dutch spoke all these. Remained for supper served on Verandah Louis engaged. Pretty bride with big frank honest blue eyes. Drove me back to Adlon in Hotel. Lou makes good impression of serious young business man. Rain in evening. [[margin]] June 21. [[/margin]] Breakfast [[underlined]] Sperry [[/underlined]] At 10 AM to Meffert & Sell then drove to Rütgers met Dr. Kohler & Dr. Nöbe. fine offices small testing laboratory - are the largest wood impregnators Lunched at Hotel. Bloemendall of Berliner Telephon [[qes.?]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[preprinted]] 181 [[/preprinted]] [[vertical margin in red]] chlorine [[/margin]] Hannover came to my room showed him samples & explained everything. Do not think he is big enough to bother much about. [[margin]] June 22 [[/margin]] 9 A.M. Oppenheimer drove me and [[margin]] X 1/2 [[/margin]] [[underlined]] Sperry [[/underlined]] in auto to their works. Their steel bottles [[underlined]] for Cl [[/underlined]] contain 45 kilos Tried 50 Atm. for export 30 At. for Germany Weighs empty 40 kilos with valve and [[margin underlined]] Chlorine [[/margin underlined]] cap Walls 5 m.m. Diam. 203 m.m. outside Height 360 m.m. with cap. Price 32 Mk net f.o.b. Hamburg. Will take 14 days to deliver 100 bottles. One car load = 140 bottles [[margin]] [[Hyshop?]] [[/margin]] [[Griesbaum?]] gets 656 fennig for 1 cub meter Hydro. Gen compressed to 150 Atm. For balloons they deliver 50 to 100 cbm. at 32 pf. [[strikethrough]] cub [[/strikethrough]] cbm Chlorine tanks are 6.800 m. x 1.400 m. thickness of steel 22 m.m. on walls and 27 m.m. on dome. 15 tons was the largest they made Goldsmith uses 12 ton tanks. The storage tank in factory has capacity 10 cbm. Smaller tanks as delivered to Solway in Germany contain 500 liters. Big tank weighs 6200 kg cost 41 mk per 100 kilo or about 2600 Mk without valve Big valves = Mk 32.00 apiece. Smaller tanks cost 320 Mk apiece and weigh 250 kilo. Valves extra. Oppenheimer drove us back and took us to lunch. I drove to Adlon where met [[underlined]] Dr. Kohler [[/underlined]] went together to [[underlined]] [[Tichnes?]] [[/underlined]]. Bar [[underlined]] distillery plant. [[/underlined]] was shown round installation [[underlined]] Cresol [[/underlined]] is of better quality than what I used. Warm day, shower in evening. Felt rather nervous but afterwards had good night's sleep. [[vertical margin entry]] Traub is son in law of Wieler who left business [[/margin]]
