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Argus Shares Large Army Periscope Job

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21
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June
Year
1963
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Argus Shares Large Army Periscope job

The Argus Cameras Division
of Argus, Inc., will share in
half of a new $2,774,197 U. S.
Army contract for production
of 5,975 infra-red periscopes
and associated equipment.

Sen. Philip A. Hart an-
nounced the contract award in
Washington to Polan Industries
of Huntington, W. Va., and
Polan's award of half of the
contract work to Argus.

The periscope—called the
M-19—is one that Argus has
been producing for the Army
for use on armed vehicles.

New contract work calls for
Argus to provide spare head
assemblies, parts arid subas-
semblies as well as periscopes.

Company officials said today
the new award will permit the
concern to maintain employ-
ment at the current level of
about 250 employes through
March, 1964, when work on
this latest contract is sched-
uled to be completed.

Argus locally received three
other contracts recently from
the Army's Frankfort Arsenal
in Philadelphia for the manu-
facture of -s—

optical components common to

many instruments.
The Frankfort Arsenal also

has just given Argus a pre-
i award announcement calling
I for manufacture of 750 elbow-
jtype telescopes, while the De-
itroit Procurement District has
ijust awarded the firm locally

a research and development

contract for a classified '! •-- "•

Those awards were an-
nounced by Argus officials who
also told of other stepped-up
activity at the local plant.

They called "significant" in-
creased production here on
optical goods in support of
Argus camera production in
Spring Grove, Minn., and pro-
jector production at the firm's
plant in Columbia, S. C.