Dana Corp

Figure 4.23 Carbon/graphite reinforced pultruded driveshaft (right) for GMT-400 trucks. (Courtesy of Spicer Div. of Dana Corp.)...

The initial plan was to contract with private industry for a 10-ton per day production plant. A later decision put the plant at the inactivated Dana Heavy Water Plant of the Atomic Energy Commission at Newport, Indiana, within the Wabash River Ordnance Works. A patent dispute that resulted in a restraining order by the Chief Justice of the United States and problems with contractors visiting the new site delayed construction. Finally in 1959, Food Machinery and Chemical Company, the low bidder, got the contract and construction was planned for 1960. Shortly after the approval, the Chemical Corps supplemented the contract to provide for a VX weapon-filling plant.129130... 

In a consideration of the people involved in this initial effort, too many names come to mind to list all of them, for fear of leaving some out. When the subcommittee was formed, four subsections were set up. In addition to section leaders and the subcommittee chairperson, a subcommittee secretary was appointed. Those taking on these initial leadership positions were Tudy Raumann (Monsanto), subcommittee chair Paul Mdler, subcommittee secretary (US Army Corps of Engineers) John Ball (University of Alabama), followed by L. David Suits (then of the New York State DOT), Section on Permeability and PUtration chair Dana Toups (Carthage MUls), followed by Robert G. Carroll, Jr. (then of CEMC-Mirafi), Section on Endurance Properties chair Dick Van Scoy (DuPont), followed by Bennett Baird (DuPont) shortly after its formation. Section on Mechanical Properties chair and Marshall Silver (University of Illinois and STS Consultants), followed by Barry Christopher (then of STS Consultants), Section on Nomenclature chair. 

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