E. F. Johnson Company Employees. Automatic Screw Machines. 6 1/4" x 5" black and white photograph of an industrial area of the E. F. Johnson Co.; the automatic screw machines costing some $18,000 each; identified L-R: Orville Krienke, Ruben Roesler, Helen Anderson, Alma Larson, and Harry Dusbabek; photographed by Huneke Studio, Waseca, Minn.; photograph printed in brochure, "Precision machining is a basic requirement in the manufacture of many of our electronic components. Batteries of complex machines, operated by highly-trained personnel turn out connector, capacitor and other component parts at high speed." Automatic Screw Machines costing as much as $18,000 apiece produce finished parts from rods or tubing at high rates of speed and at low cost. Two of the machines pictured are six-spindle automatics that perform 12 operations simultaneously.
