Blank form "Statement of Standard Components Refurbished during Assembly" (K 39-31)

In this document

This is a printed form, entirely blank, originating from the Repair Sub-Directorate, with the header mentions "P.D. – R.A.B. – O.S." and "Division: 1" p. 11.

The printed title is Statement of Standard Components Refurbished during Assembly at Workshop No…, intended to be completed for a given week ("Week of… to… 193…"), with a space for the foreman's name. The form bears the reference K 39-31 p. 11.

The table

The body of the document is a five-column table, the dotted lines of which are all empty (no legible handwritten entries):

p. 11

The "Potez serial no." column is notable: it assumes that components bearing a Potez serial numbering — an aeronautical manufacturer — passed through this repair workshop, without any further clarification being provided in this document.

Context

Potez is a French aeronautical manufacturer active mainly during the interwar period. The presence of its name on a repair workshop form evokes, in a general and external way to the document, the occasional links that certain workshops or suppliers could maintain with aviation at that time — but nothing in the document allows for the exact nature of this link with the workshop concerned to be specified.

the acronym "193…" for the year suggests a standard form from the 1930s, consistent with the early career of Paul Magès, then an engineer working on various mechanical issues before joining Citroën.

Archivist's perspective

This blank form does not, in itself, provide any information on a specific activity of Magès: it is a standard administrative medium, unfilled p. 11.

Its documentary interest lies mainly in the mention "Potez serial no.", which raises questions about the exact nature of the "standard components" tracked by this workshop — a hypothesis that remains open for lack of other elements in the document.

It seems that this type of form was kept in several copies, some having been reused as supports for sketches by Magès, as can be seen in the Workshop form "Standard Components Refurbished during Assembly" (K 39-31) or the K 39-31 forms "Statement of Standard Components Refurbished during Assembly", which bear handwritten annotations. This comparison suggests that these printed forms constituted a stock of available paper, diverted on occasion for calculation or technical drawing purposes.