PRICE AND EXPORT AGREEMENTS OF FOREIGN COMBINATIONS. 463

Ball bearings without cage (basket) are to be charged for at the same prices
as bearings with cage. The prices for individual parts, especially of thrustball
 bearings, are put down in a special list.
In connection with thrust disks and ball races the prices made known by
F. &amp; S. are not to be underbid until a correction has taken place jointly.

TURNOVER BONUS,

The individual sets are listed under the respective classes for customers or
bearings.
The turnover bonus is refunded for those articles of the convention which
a buyer orders from all members belonging to the convention within a calendar
year.
As has just been mentioned, the turnover bonus at any time may only be allowed
 on the purchases during the calendar year.
In connection with quotations in which net prices are quoted only the conventional
 discount may be deducted, while the turnover bonus must only be
allowed at the end of the year.
A turnover bonus may also be allowed on repairs and on abnormal bearings.
(General meeting 21. 2. 14.)

ARTICLES OF THE (GERMAN BALL Bearing CONVENTION.

Ball bearings in the broadest sense of the word, including the bearing parts
belonging thereto, individual parts of ball bearings in particular.
I. Precision goods (i. e., bearings which are ground in the bore hole or the
outside diameter or in both grooves).
1. Race systems, thrust-ball bearings.
2. Oblique ball bearings,
8. Cone bearings, open (so far as they are not intended for use on bicycles).
4. Bearings with accessories: (a) Complete bicycle bearings with concentric
ball race systems; (b) transmission bearings with housings and other transmission
 parts; (c) other than transmission bearings with housings or hubs;
{d) ball bearings which are constructed together with other gear parts (this
alsp comprises all other bearings where instead of the races and (inner race or
outer race) other parts of the gearing (axle, housing, hub) are provided with
grooves or races, loose-head stocks, or the like).
II. Goods other than precision.
These comprise preferably: (a) Bearings where nothing else is ground except
 one groove at the most; (b) bearings which are not ground at all (patent
bearings, other than those ground in one groove, are not released) ; (¢) pressed
bearings which can not be called race systems, thrust-ball bearings, oblique, or
cone bearings.
ITI. Hardened and ground races which are not used for ball bearings, but
in shape and precision resemble ball-bearing races.
The convention does not extend to bicycle cone bearings and accessories for
the bicyele industry, loose balls, so far as they do not belong to convention
bearings, or to black unground races.

STANDAED BEARINGS.
Standard bearings such as are mentioned in the lists approved of must only
be offered at the basic prices laid down. .
Making known new series to the trade Is inadmissible without the authorization
 of the general meeting.

ABNORMAL BEARINGS.
ABNORMAL BEARINGS WITHIN THE NORMAL SERIES—UNIT TABLE.
For additions within the normal series:
In connection with—
100 and more oe ______
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