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“LOWE & CAMPBELL ATHLETIC GOODS CO.

July 22, 1943

Dr. Forrest C. Allen

. Director of Physical iducation
University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Dootor:

Your letter of the twentieth has been received, and we sincerely appreciate the
opportunity to bid on the physical training equipment needed in connection with

It is in order to emphasize the point here that the real problem will be to obtain
ee my reasonable time at any price ny preferenc gatiny

type of equipment has been purchased in tremendously big. quanti py th
Air Corps Training Program - their program has been in operation for more than a»
year, and orders have been placed with the various factories in lots renging from
$0,000 units to 50,000 wits at one time ~ and as fast as one contract was completed
another would be executed. At the Classification Center at Nashville, Tenn. we
have already delivered over 100,000 mits in the past eight months.

Even on the orders in these quantities, the actual production costs will exoeed the
comparative price quotations given by the Direstor of the Training Division, so we
are led to the conclusign that these prices mst have been taken from a schedule
that is decidedly on the obsolete side. :

SHOES. We can supply for Septenber delivery Converse Shoes with canvas uppers and
Tubber soles at a price of $2.85 per pair. We oan supply for lumediate delivery our
L&C Wo. BST (made by Wiseo) at a price of $5.00 per pair.

TRUNKS. We can supply ow No. PS6O at a price of $1.65 per pair, ~ we have some
en for at ome delivery, and would require four woeks' time for making
up the balance. )

? SHIRTS. We gen supply our No. 1245 for delivery the latter part of September
‘BE $5.00 a dozen.

SUPPORTERS, We can make delivery immediately on the No. ESV at $4.00 a dosen or
on tne No. 50 at $5.25 a dozen. ,

HOSE. We ean supply ow No. H7S0 at $3.00 por dozen pair, or our Noe 1729 at $4.00 —
per dozen pair; 500 pair of either for immediate delivery, balance by September 15th.

SWEAT SHIRTS AND PANTS, We cannot supply within six months time in any quantity at

All of the foregoing quotations based on preference rating of AAS or better on PD-SA
certificates. Pation Certificates would also be required on the shoes,

      
   

  

 

Yours for victory,
—- LOWE & CAMPBELL
(Signed) Les Freeburg