1958 – Watts

1/58

  • Hewlett-Packard 1955-1957 – A Supplement to the
    1954 Anniversary Issue of Watt’s Current, 1.
  • Bet With a Multiple Payoff;
    Founder-Partners Have Built Small Original Investment Into Stake of Nearly $50 Million.
    They Have Spaced the Gravy Around With Incentive Payments, Stock Bonuses, Employee-Owned Sidelines.
    Behind Growth is Pioneering of New Instruments (70% of 1956 Volume was in Products New Since 1950).
  • Hewlett-Packard’s New Products Boost Profits, 5.
  • HP Appoints 4 Vice Presidents, 5.
  • HP Development Lab. Organization, Barney Oliver, 6.
  • What’s a Production Engineer?, Edna MacLean, 10.
  • How Purchasing Ticks as They Spend Money to Make
    More of Same, Bob Sundberg, 12.
  • Hewlett-Packard Sales Organization, Noel Eldred, 14.
  • What is a Road Show Like?, John Borgsteadt, 15.
  • ’57 Seminar – A Successful, Enthusiastic Effort,
    John Borgsteadt, 16.
  • IRE 1957 Show Tops All Past Production Efforts, 18.
  • Plant Management News, Noel Porter, 20.
  • New Hewlett-Packard Hilltop Plant, 23.
  • The Best Factory Building in Existence, Stan
    Selby, 24.
  • Hill-Top Lower Deck – A Continuous Flow Operation,
    Harold Wild, 26.
  • School Bells at HP, Lee Benzel, 28.
  • Funds Matching – Tops All Records, George Kan, 28.
  • HP Incentive Bonus System and How it Works, Dick
    Stone, 29.
  • From Our President’s Desk, 30.
  • Retirement Plan Revision, John Beyers, 30.
  • Retirement Plan – Review and Report, John Beyers,
    Page 30.
  • HP Retirement Plan Security Purchases Listed, Ed
    Van Bronkhorst, 31.
  • Hewlett-Packard Christmas Bonus Hits All-Time High, $547,000 – 7% of Yearly Gross, Stu Churchon, 34.
  • Hewlett-Packard Offers:
    Opportunities in Electronic Instrumentation
    Broad Scope of Engineering Activity
    Recognition of Achievements
    Young, Secure and Growing Company
    Advantages for Employees
    Ideal Location for the Engineer, 36.

01/58

  • From Our President’s Desk, Dave Packard, 2.
  • What’s Ahead for ’58
  • Production Integration of Six New Instruments Seen by Mid-year
  • New Applications for 560A, the Sputnik Celebrity
  • Suggestions for Improved Supervisory Efficiency Now in Order
  • Bet With a Multiple Payoff (reprinted from Business Week magazine, Dec. 14, 1957), 3.
  • Hewlett-Packard Christmas Bonus Hits All-Time High, Stu Churchon, 6.
  • PHOTOS: Travelab, exterior/interior, 9.
  • H-P Instruments Considered Standard of European Industry–As in USA (Part II), Bill Doolittle, 11.
  • New “Task Team” Carries the Ball on 120A Development Program, Dick Reynolds, 12.

02/58

  • From Our President’s Desk, Dave Packard, 2.
  • Sonoma Conference Report
  • H-P Instruments Considered Standard of European Industry–As in USA (Part III), Bill Doolittle, 8.
  • New Hewlett-Packard Model 340A Noise Figure Meter, Dick Reynolds, 13.

03/58 

  • From Our President’s Desk, Dave Packard, 2.
  • ARE YOUR PERSONAL CALLS REALLY NECESSARY??
  • Incoming Messages Must be Curtailed
  • Development Effort Stressed by WESCON, 5.
  • PHOTOS: Neely Enterprises’ new Mobile Lab, exterior/interior, 7.
  • PHOTO: “Voltswagon” (Volkswagon Microbus), 9.

04/58

  • From Our President’s Desk, Dave Packard, 2.
  • Show Report
  • Booth Well Located
  • H-P Engineers Scoop Competitors
  • Big Production Job Ahead
  • Looks Like Another Banner Year for ’58
  • All Hands Back and Ready to Push–With WESCON Ahead
  • Show Sales’s Impact Indicative of Strong Second Half, Noel Eldred, 4.
  • Effectiveness of Aggressive Hewlett-Packard New Product Development Program–A Highlight of New York Show, Barney Oliver, 5.
  • H-P Model 434A Calorimetric Power Meter, Dick Reynolds, 6.

05/58

  • From Our President’s Desk, Dave Packard, 2.
  • Important Sidelight to -hp- Affairs (community involvement of Bob Sundberg)
  • Business Outlook Optimistic
  • Naval Inspection and Its H-P Relationship, Duane Marshall, 5.
  • New H-P Model 425A Microvolt-Ammeter, Dick Reynolds, 7.

06/58

  • From Our President’s Desk, Dave Packard, 2.
  • May orders Hit New High
  • Questionnaire Response Excellent
  • Dymec (new name for associates in Redwood building)
  • Vacation Thought
  • European Manufacturing Operation–An H-P Possibility, Bill Hewlett, 3.
  • What Do America’s Top Industrial Leaders Foresee for 1958 and After?, 4.
  • Packard Elected President Stanford Board of Trustees, 7.
  • H-P Model 218A Digital Delay Generator

07/58

  • From Our President’s Desk, Dave Packard, 2.
  • summer high-school interns
  • picnic
  • AMA conference
  • Packard Elected Member Stanford Research Board, 2.
  • Hewlett President of Board P.A.-Stanford Medical Center, 2.
  • PHOTO: Dave Packard behind Eisenhower (at American Management Association Mobilization Conference),3 First H-P picnic, 3
  • PHOTO: Travelab in Canada, 11.

08/58

  • From Our President’s Desk, Dave Packard, 2.
  • Next Hill-Top Construction in Planning Stage
  • New Orders Holding Up Well
  • Foreign Sales and its Relation to Over-all Production, Bill Doolittle, 10.

09/58

  • From Our President’s Desk, Dave Packard, 2.
  • New Product Development Pays Off (WESCON)
  • Fall Business Outlook Optimistic
  • Welcome to San Felipe! (day at San Felipe Ranch)
  • 1958 WESCON Show–Biggest Ever, Ron Whitburn, 4.
  • New H-P Instruments Introduced at WESCON, Dick Reynolds, 5.

10/58

  • From Our President’s Desk, Dave Packard, 2.
  • Hew-Pack Gears up for Heavy Load Ahead
  • H-P Acquiring Interest in F. L. Moseley Company
  • PHOTO: Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett with Senator Knowland at Stanford Plant during gubernatorial campaign, 3.
  • 11/58 From Our President’s Desk, Dave Packard, 2.
  • A Word to Our New People
  • Four-Day Thanksgiving and Christmas Week Ends Set
  • Special Industrial Demonstrations Make H-P ISA Exhibit Outstanding Success, Dan O’Rourke, 7.

12/58

  • Christmas Greeting from Dave and Bill, Dave Packard, 2.
  • A Time To Pause and Give Thanks
  • Dave Packard Named “All-America”–25 Years Later, 2.
  • CENTER INSERT: F.L. Moseley Company. . . Letter of Introduction from Head of Recorder Company Serves to Introduce H-P’ites to New H-P Affiliate and Its Potential.