Edwin B. Meissner letter to Marden, Orth & Hastings Company - November 20, 1915
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[St. Louis Car Company letterhead] St. Louis U.S.A. [November] 20, [1915] Marden, Orth & Hastings Co., New York, [New York] ATTENTION OF MESSRS. HIRSH AND HASLUP Gentlemen:- We will furnish you with Benoist Hydro-Aeroplanes and Aeroplanes, in lots of 500 at the following prices f.o.b. cars St. Louis, boxed ready for ocean shipment HYDRO-AEROPLANES(war type flying boat). As per specifications attached hereto fully equipped with 2-100 H.P. Roberts motors, carburetors, self-starters, raidators, propellers, and controlling mechanism, Price $6100.00 each. Above Hydro-Aeroplane without meters, carburetors, self-starters, radiators, propellers, and controlling mechanism, price $3500.00 each AEROPLANES. Practically duplicate of equipment outlined in Hydro-Aeroplane specifications, the only difference being that instead of boat bottom aeroplane is to be equipped with a substantial pneumatic running gear, complete with 2-100 H.P. Roberts motors, carburetors, radiators, self-starters, propellers and controlling mechanism Price $5800.00 each Above Aeroplane without motors, carburetors, self-starters, radiators, propellers, and controlling mechanism, price $3200.00 each These prices are not to us. A substantial proportion must be paid in cash with order, at which time satisfactory credit for full amount of contract must be established. Shipments to go forward with B/L attached to sight draft on a responsible New York Bank or Trust Company. We agree to give you exclusive selling agency for these planes for the British Government for a period of sixty days from date of this proposal, provided you agree to pay all transportation charges, marine and fire risk insurance, involved in shipment of Hydro-
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Marden Orth & Hastings Co. [November] 20 [1915] Aeroplane we have on hand from St. Louis to England and return. Also traveling and living expenses from St. Louis to England and return of Mr Benoist and his expert aviator, who are to accompany the machine in order to demonstrate its efficiency and stability. You also agree to pay the salary of Mr Benoist and his crew ($75.00 per week) from the time they leave St. Louis until they return to St. Louis, and we estimate that the entire amount involved in the expense incidental to taking sample machine abroad for demonstration purposes will aggregate about Thirty-Five Hundred Dollars ($3500.00), which should be deposited in the Third National Bank of St. Louis to the credit of Tom W. Benoist, to be drawn out from time to time on detailed vouchers submitted by him and countersigned by us covering the traveling and living expenses of himself and crew. Should you be successful in securing an order for us within sixty days from date of this proposal for not less that 2000 of these planes, we will agree to give you the exclusive selling agency of our type Hydro and Aeroplane output for one year from date. It is agreed that sample Hydro-Aeroplane which is proposed to be shipped to England for demonstration purposes, is to remain our property, and will be returned to us here at St. Louis free of all transportation and insurance expense, just as soon as satisfactory tests and flights have been made in England. Should this particular Hydro-Aeroplane be sold by you with our consent, proceeds of sale are to be turned over to us in full. We are writing this proposition in duplicate, and your acceptance on one copy returned to us will constitute a contract between us. Yours very truly, ST. LOUIS CAR COMPANY EBM/D Edwin B. Meissner Assistant to President ACCEPTED:-
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| Title | Edwin B. Meissner letter to Marden, Orth & Hastings Company - November 20, 1915 |
| Creator | Meissner, Edwin B. |
| Source | Meissner, Edwin B. Letter to Marden, Orth & Hastings Company. 20 November 1915. St. Louis Car Company Records. Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections, St. Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Edwin B. Meissner, Assistant to the President of The |
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| Date Original | November 20, 1915 |
| Language | English |