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These are PARTS WAREHOUSE WORK ORDERS not purchase orders, or R&D it would appear someone ordered x amount of a part# that consisted of a number of items. 5000 of 379825 took 1 each of 4 items and 4 of the washer. 217 items part #6484481 consisted of 1 each 6480792 nameplate and 1 each 6484480 cover. Do not know what the hours mean

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SOmeone???? Quantities of 5K and 20K ?????? Maybe BH can enlighten me here but that quantity could only be within CORPORATE pmcc. I would be amazed if some dealer ordered that many. Maybe the warehouse ordered that many from corporate. Maybe some PMCC engineers' secretary ordered that many for some dept within PMCC. But not anyone outside of the PMCC corporate departments.

I think those are internal orders. Perhaps like many companies all Packard depts were individual entities or profit centers. Warehouse being one, manufacturing being one, tool shop another, sales, service etc etc. Very common in many companies to hold each dept accountable for their staffing, overhead and whatever.

In these cases, rocker covers which consisted of two items were ordered, a production dept made or assembled the items and shipped to the warehouse or whomever. The other case is an axle seal kit which consisted of 5 items, assembled, made, sourced or whatever and placed in individual boxes and sent to the warehouse for distribution.

My guess on the time notation is how long it took to do the work for that job. That time charged at a certain rate plus the parts cost was the amount charged to the requesting dept. That requesting dept would then divide the amount charged by number of items received for a unit cost, then add their markup and send it to the next person ordering that item at whatever cost that would be. Alternately, perhaps the time was just internally accounted for rather than being billed so management knew where the employees time was spent.