[LB015406], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Charles Batchelor, March 5th, 1883
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- Title
- [LB015406], Letter from Thomas Alva Edison to Charles Batchelor, March 5th, 1883
- Editor's Notes
- I beg to confirm cables as follows To you March 3. "Impossible spare man" Edison##To you March 3 If ordered large quantities forty cents lowest recent improved life insurance cost poor policy start factory on in year or so very much charges here Edison##Bailey has cabled Eaton to endeavor to persuade me to send Upton to Europe for three months. I suppose he wants him to start the German Lamp Factory I suppose Bailey thinks our Lamp Factory business can take care of itself in this country or else he would not make such a request.##I cannot quote lower than 40 cents for lamps. For the past Six months our lamps have cost us 48 cents & are now costing us just about 40 cents. Of course we shall get them down cheaper in course of time I think your people make a great mistake in starting so many factories You cannot expect them to have that skill in lamp manufacture that our experience has given us here; given as much as our own people get away off here & make bad lamps sometimes & for reasons that we know nothing about; surely the same trouble will occur in Germany.##Furthermore if the lamp is to be made cheap it should be made in large quantities & in order to do this the less the number of factories the better
- Author
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Recipient
- Batchelor, Charles
- Mentioned
- Deutsche Edison Gesellschaft
- Bailey, Joshua Franklin
- Upton, Francis Robbins
- Eaton, Sherburne Blake
- Date
- 1883-03-05
- Type
- Letter
- Subject
- International business operations
- Management (companies and organizations)
- Financial operations (companies and organizations)
- Incandescent lamp
- Folder ID
- LB015-F
- Microfilm ID
- 82:197
- Document ID
- LB015406
- Publisher
- Thomas A. Edison Papers, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University
- License
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Has Version
- Archive.org Viewer, Microfilm Series Reel 82
- Item sets
- [LB015-F] LB-015 (1882-1883)