[D8736AEQ], Letter from Samuel Insull to Thomas Alva Edison, November 16th, 1887
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Title
[D8736AEQ], Letter from Samuel Insull to Thomas Alva Edison, November 16th, 1887
Editor's Notes
"I have a telegram stating that we should charge 50% more for a machine to be used as a transformer than we would for a dynamo of the same weight. ## Against such a policy, I must most assuredly enter my strongest protest. We are getting ample profit on our dynamos to-day, and to charge 50% more for a transformer than we would for a dynamo of the same wright, is next to telling us that we must not enter into this class of business. This policy of charging high prices on special work was for a long time adopted by the Machine Works, and as a consequence, we lost lots of orders for dynamos, that we could have obtained had we been content with about our present prices. ## I am just as anxious as you and Batchelor, to show big profits here, but I am not willing that any such charge should be made, without protesting most strongly against it." Margnialia: "The telegram came to hand too late for me to go at length into the figures on this matter I shall write you again tomorrow showing figures on this matter"
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Date
1887-11-16
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Folder/Volume ID
D8736-F
Microfilm ID
119:1178
Document ID
D8736AEQ
Publisher
Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University