{"id":42,"date":"2011-08-16T19:21:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T19:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2014-05-29T13:25:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:25:07","slug":"a-major-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"A Major Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By the early 1950\u2019s Boller and Chivens had completely outgrown the 1018 Mission St. property so they then purchased Arnold O. Beckman\u2019s Helipot Division\u2019s building at 916 Meridian Avenue, South Pasadena, California. Helipot Division was moving to Orange County, California.\"\"<\/a>At the 916 Meridian Ave. Building the Boller and Chivens now had room for private office spaces for both Harry Boller and Clyde Chivens, secretarial office space, an accounting office, a reception secretary, and a purchasing office with an adjoining office for manufacturing work planning and scheduling.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u2022A separate engineering section was acquired.
\n\u2022A precision machine shop area with precision lathes, vertical-mills, drill presses and surface grinders which had their own large area for all precision machining.
\n\u2022A larger area was reserved for heavier machining such as large lathes, mills and drill presses. The larger parts for telescopes and other products were machined in this area.
\n\u2022A well-equipped tool room was there for both types of shops.
\n\u2022A complete onsite Weld Shop for ferrous and non-ferrous materials.
\n\u2022All shop-manufactured and vendor supplied parts were directed through a well-appointed technical inspection room.
\n\u2022All machined parts went through a complete inspection before any outside processing such as plating, anodizing or any specialized outside processing was made.
\n\u2022All finished parts and incoming vendor supplied items were inventoried and placed in assigned storage cabinets for each individual project.
\n\u2022From small parts to all large fabrications there was an on-site paint booth for all finish coatings.
\n\u2022Final products had their own semi-clean assembly area.
\n\u2022Several areas for large and small assembly were available.
\n\u2022A complete electrical and electronic assembly area was created.
\n\u2022A dedicated shipping and receiving area<\/p>\n

Types of products would include such contracts like oil well deep hole research instruments, Motion picture editing instruments; Aerial photo reconnaissance instruments and multitude of many other scientific devices were manufactured and assembled.<\/p>\n

Boller and Chivens was now recognized as a mainstream scientific instrument machine design and developer in this type of industry.<\/p>\n

Next: The First Introduction to Astronomical Telescopes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By the early 1950\u2019s Boller and Chivens had completely outgrown the 1018 Mission St. property so they then purchased Arnold O. Beckman\u2019s Helipot Division\u2019s building at 916 Meridian Avenue, South Pasadena, California. Helipot Division was moving to Orange County, California.At the 916 Meridian Ave. Building the Boller and Chivens now had room for private office […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}