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Storing over-sized items



Hamilton Manufacturing Co., of Two Rivers, Wisconsin,
used to make some *very* useful steel storage cabinets.
These cabinets have many small rectangular, very long
drawers, into which you can put rolled-up drawings.
Each drawer is 1 3/4 inches square and 43 inches long,
and has a place you can slide in labels on the front.
Unfortunately, they have not made that *very useful*
 product for probably 30 years or more.

There still is a company called "Hamilton Manufacturing",
but they no longer make any kind of storage cabinets.
They make money-sorting machines for banks and
other organizations.

Perhaps if the SAA, ARMA, and other professional associations
whose members need to store oversize items, told Hamilton Mfg.
that their members needed those cabinets, Hamilton *might*
begin to manufacture them again.

I am fortunate in that a colleague has a number of these
Hamilton cabinets, and does not need all of them, so in a
while, I will be able to get one cabinet that has - in one unit -
130 drawers, which is just right for our records.  (Each unit is
5 drawers high and 26 drawers wide.)

(The flat file storage cabinet that Hamilton also *used* to
make was *far* superior to *any* made today.  It was made
of fairly heavy gauge steel, and each drawer is shallow,  being
only 1  1/4 inches deep, but is 55 inches wide and 43 inches
long.  Each drawer also has flat sheets of steel that lie on top
of the contents.  A really *great* product!  Probably would be
rather expensive, but is much better than the old flat-file cabinets
we have that are too deep, and hard to pull out & push back in,
because they are full of paper, and thus *very* heavy.)

Good luck in finding suitable ways to store these inportant items!

Margaret Monroe

Caltrans Office Technician (Typing)
(UN-official Record-keeper for all records
in District 4 of all State-owned toll bridges in
Northern California)

State of California
Department of Transportation
District 4
Structure Maintenance & Investigations: Toll Bridges
Room 10-400
P. O. Box  23660
Oakland, CA  94623-0660

Phone: 510-286-6188
Fax:  510-286-0353

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