Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory
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Topic: Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory
Posted By: newsman3
Subject: Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory
Date Posted: Aug 01 2021 at 8:57am
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Member Michael Shyne recently visited the Hillerich
& Bradsby "Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory" in Louisville,
Kentucky  Many
of you are familiar with the famous baseball bat, but some of you may
not have known that Hillerich & Bradsby was a wartime subcontractor
to Inland and Standard Products producing carbine stocks and to a lesser
extent some stocks for Quality Hardware and Machine Company A mural on the wall depicts stocks being sanded by women workers, a first at H&B.   Carbine stocks on the drip rack after being dipped into Raw Linseed Oil. Look at those beauties!   Carbine stock made by H&B on display in a glass case. Card
description: From 1942-45, Hillerich & Bradsby converted their golf
factory to make M1 Carbine gunstocks out of hickory wood for the US
Armed Forces. H & B averaged 1800 gunstocks per day for a total of
more than 1.5 million. H&B
was also known for their golf clubs. During the war they also produced
track pins for tanks, billy clubs for the armed forces as well as
baseball and softball bats for the troops.  If you are in the Louisville area swing by and check out the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory http://www.sluggermuseum.com/" rel="nofollow - https://www.sluggermuseum.com/ Editors Note: Ordnance specified walnut wood to be used. Later, due to supply, birch and cherry was used to a limited degree. Though hickory and walnut are in the same family and similar, hickory was much harder and may have been tougher on tooling. The display also mentions finishing lacquer being wiped on stocks but it was actually raw linseed oil that was specified.
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Posted By: Charles
Date Posted: Aug 01 2021 at 4:10pm
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This the first time I have herd the use of hickory for M1 carbine stocks ------------- Charles Co B 1st Batl.115 Inf. Reg. 29th. Divi. 4.2 Heavy Mortar Co Retired Life member NRA |
Posted By: Jond41403
Date Posted: Aug 01 2021 at 4:14pm
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Charles wrote:Posted By: Matt_X
Date Posted: Aug 01 2021 at 5:28pm
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This may be an example of a museum that didn't have someone look over the exhibit text, and the writer made some assumptions... I've seen it happen in museums that had a historian and curators that were very familiar with the subject.
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Posted By: Jond41403
Date Posted: Aug 01 2021 at 7:14pm
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Posted By: New2brass
Date Posted: Aug 01 2021 at 8:55pm
read the note at the end of the article.
Exactly
Yep, Walnut was the spec. But eventually ordnance accepted some birch and cherry, which had issues with scrap rates. I am not ruling out hickory, but it is highly unlikely. 1.5 million stocks would have been about more than a 1/4th of all stocks made by everyone including spares. The person that put the display together had two more mistake that I noticed. In all a great display and brings visitors attention to the wartime effort. They received the coveted E award for sporting good supplied to the Army and Navy. Unclear if the stocks were also part of it. H&B has continued to send sports equipment to the troops, so kudos to them! Amazing how the stock has not darkened. ------------- http://www.uscarbinecal30.com/forum/club-assistance-saginaw-receivers_topic4716.html" rel="nofollow - Club Survey Saginaw Receivers |
Posted By: painter777
Date Posted: Aug 02 2021 at 11:33am
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In 1980 or 1981 We painted a new summer home for John Hillerich III near East Lansing, MI on Applegate Drive in a high end neighborhood called 'White Hills'. He along with my 2 Uncles were all Kentuckians, so they got along very well. He had a impressive collection of their Golf Clubs. I finished the custom made display room built just for the clubs. Fun loving practical joker and a pleasure to know and be around. He retired I believe in early 2000. We called him Jack. His Wife had family ties here in Michigan. They lived between the regional president of Coca Cola and the president of Lansing, MI based Motor Wheel Corp. Jack had a World Class collection of Autographed baseball bats.... 100's of them. His family room was full of early family members pictured with baseball stars like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Hank Aaron .. you name them, they were there. He was proud of their immigration roots and long tight family run business. FWIW, Ch-P777 ------------- Living Free because of those that serve..... |