"A case of the cart running away with the horse, Estes Industries was started in 1958 as a spare time occupation by Vernon Estes, then a Denver, Colorado building contractor.  Vern devoted his energies at first to designing, building and perfecting a machine to make model rocket engines safely and automatically.  The result was "Mable," a prima donna who, when happy, would make, inspect, and print one model rocket engine every 5 1/2 seconds."

So goes the opening paragraph in "Model Rocket News, Volume 3, Number 2" that was published by Estes Industries in the April/May issue from 1963.

The newsletter has been captured and converted to Adobe PDF format to share with the readers. Four pages in length, the article is 2305K in size. To view the article, click here. You will need Adobe Reader to view the article. If you do not have Adobe Reader, a copy may be downloaded for free from the Adobe website at http://www.adobe.com/.

Part of the challenge we face in the hobby is the archival and preservation of these old sources of information on our hobby. Adobe PDF format makes a great medium for the collection and storage of these types of documents because of its portability and cross-platform approach.

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