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though.[ < 2005 ] All-Time Addenda and Errata.
Every year since the first edition of the book went to press in 2001, I have compiled, posted to the internet, and maintained an annual list of the corrections and additions to the Tom’s 1938 Register data collection found in that year, with page numbers to help the user locate the changes scattered throughout the book. After 2003, I also posted and maintained a compilation of all changes (with page numbers) to help newcomers get on board with updating their copies.
By 2006, however, new sources of information provided so much additional information, including changes to previous changes, that maintaining both types of list became cumbersome. In order to make a correction to an already corrected entry it is necessary to either go back and correct a list that was supposed to have been finalized as of the end of that year, or tell the user to delete changes they’ve just been told to make. In addition, with changes on nearly every other page of the book, page numbers have became superfluous.
Thus, here is a list of all the corrections and additions to the collection, as of February 26, 2008. For those of you who update your books every year, every entry added or changed after 2005 is marked with a “NEW” icon giving the year that entry last changed. As before, text is color-coded: Additions and corrections are in green, deletions are in red, and black text gives context and instructions. Starting in 2007, changes to a past year’s changes will be underlined and the “NEW” icon will be updated.
§ Abrasives
o
Pike Manufacturing Company 
Evansville, Vermont
"Pike Whetstones are the Best."
§ Adhesives
o
Milk Products Company
Sunnyside, Washington
RR: Northern
Pacific NP or Union Pacific UP not Oregon-Washington
Railroad & Navigation Company OWRR&N
o
Pocahontas Tanning Company
Frank, West Virginia
RR: Chesapeake
& Ohio C&O not Western Maryland WM
§ Advertising Materials
o
Economy Advertising
Co.
Iowa City, Iowa
o
Kemper Thomas Company
Norwood, Ohio
RR: Norfolk
& Western N&W and Pennsylvania PRR not Baltimore
& Ohio B&O
§ Aircraft
o
Douglas Aircraft Company 
Santa Monica, California
§ Aircraft, Military
o
Douglas Aircraft
Company, El Segundo Division
El Segundo, California
Twin-engine B-18, the USAAC's
standard heavy bomber.
RR: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe ATSF; Pacific Electric PER
§ Aircraft Parts
o
Pioneer Instrument
Company 
Brooklyn, New York
Aviation Instruments
RR: Long Island Rail Road LIRR
o
Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation not Plant
Newark, New Jersey
§ Antimony
o
Texas Mining &
Smelting Co. Antimony Smelter
Laredo, Texas
[Uses natural gas and Alabama Coke.]
§ Automobile Accessories
o
Gillette Rubber Company
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
RR: Chicago,
Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific CMStP&P; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis
and Omaha CStPM&O; Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie
MStP&SStM (Soo Line) not Chicago & North
Western C&NW [?]
§ Automobile Bodies
o
A. J. Miller Company (not
Body Factory)
Bellefontaine, Ohio
Automobile bodies for ambulances and the undertaking trade. A complete line. - Used world-wide.
§ Automobile Parts
o
Add “See also:
American Brakeblok, in the Unknown category.”
o
General Motors Corp., AC
Spark Plug Div. (was AC Spark Plug
Plant)
Flint, Michigan
o
Chrysler Motor Corp., Dodge Division Assembly
Plant
Hamtramck, Michigan
RR: Michigan
Central Mich.Cent. not Grand Trunk Western GTW
o
King-Seeley
Corporation
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Automobile instruments, fuel gauges, and speedometers for General
Motors. (Ann Arbor's largest industrial employer, it built three
additions to its factory after 1935, and quadrupled its employment from 200 in
1930 to 800 in 1936.)
RR:
Ann Arbor AA
o
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.
Rossford, Ohio
RR: Baltimore
& Ohio B&O not New York Central NYC
o
The Anderson Company
Gary, Indiana
RR: Wabash
not New York, Chicago & St. Louis NYC&StL NKP
(Nickel Plate)
o
The Ford Motor Co.
Long Beach, California
RR: Union
Pacific UP not Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
AT&SF or [?]
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