CE 2562

[John Iacoletti]

Are you 100% sure that serial number was exclusive to only a 40" MC rifle?

It sure would have been nice to see the rest of that “missing” microfilm, huh?

[John Tonkovich]

We do know that they sent a 40 inch rifle because the Carcano bearing serial number C2766 is a 40 inch rifle.

We know there is a 40" rifle -serial #C2766 - in the National Archives.

Not much else.


Addendum: the WC presents paperwork that alleges:
A Hidell ordered a 36" rifle.
A Hidell received a 40" rifle, with a "unique" serial number.
Lifschutz Fast Freight shipped 100 rifles, weighing 750 lbs.

[Jack Trojan]

This one seems pretty straightforward. We need to examine the weight of CE 2562 and determine its accuracy. If we added up the weight of 100 rifles and added the weight of the container there is no way in hell it would come to exactly 750 lbs.

750 lbs was obviously an estimate based on each rifle being 7.5 lbs, excluding the container, regardless whether it was accurate or actually weighed. EOS.

[John Tonkovich]

This one seems pretty straightforward. We need to examine the weight of CE 2562 and determine its accuracy. If we added up the weight of 100 rifles and added the weight of the container there is no way in hell it would come to exactly 750 lbs.

750 lbs was obviously an estimate based on each rifle being 7.5 lbs, excluding the container, regardless whether it was accurate or actually weighed. EOS.

Excluding the container.

So shipping companies don't charge by weight?
Instead, they ..feel sympathetic, and let the customer only pay for the weight of the items they are selling?
Interesting.
Can you provide examples of such practices?

[Jack Trojan]

Excluding the container.

So shipping companies don't charge by weight?
Instead, they ..feel sympathetic, and let the customer only pay for the weight of the items they are selling?
Interesting.
Can you provide examples of such practices?

Or the rifles were 7 lbs x 100 + a 50 lb container. But my point is that if CE 2562 was actually weighed, then it would NOT be exactly 750 lbs. That is obviously an estimate, not an actual weight, for whatever reason.

[John Mytton]

Excluding the container.

So shipping companies don't charge by weight?
Instead, they ..feel sympathetic, and let the customer only pay for the weight of the items they are selling?
Interesting.
Can you provide examples of such practices?

Before I start, C2766 can be traced from Crescent to Kleins to Neely street to The Texas School Book Depository and yet you think the key to deception is an insignificant weight discrepancy? Hilarious!

Here is a copy of the delivery schedule for the Chicago run that had the Kleins delivery and we have 21 weighted objects and ten of those weights end in a zero and another 6 end in a five, does that suggest that every item was weighed to within a pound or did the various companies who sent the items just guess?



And as for how transport companies charge for delivering weighted items, they don't charge for every single gram/pound/kilogram/ton but charge for different weight categories.









JohnM

[John Iacoletti]

Before I start, C2766 can be traced from Crescent to Kleins to Neely street

LOL

[John Tonkovich]

Before I start, C2766 can be traced from Crescent to Kleins to Neely street to The Texas School Book Depository and yet you think the key to deception is an insignificant weight discrepancy? Hilarious!

Here is a copy of the delivery schedule for the Chicago run that had the Kleins delivery and we have 21 weighted objects and ten of those weights end in a zero and another 6 end in a five, does that suggest that every item was weighed to within a pound or did the various companies who sent the items just guess?





JohnM

Please explain this concept of the "guess".
Would there never be any verification?
Seems like there would be great potential for..cheating?