I guess that's what I'm trying to say. Components being made in batches and shuffled into the warehouse to be drawn to fill requests from the assembly dept. At that point manufacturing started flowing linearly once receivers were mated to barrels and stocks. Again just a guess.

One thing that's obvious to me is that Savage never heard of FIFO (first in first out) in terms of parts storage and finished product warehousing. Heck, we didn't adopt that until around 1980 where I worked.

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