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"If it wasn't for people like Vera we wouldn't want a health service."
HOW HAVE
T is no use asking Miss Elizabeth Wilkinson the secret of her success in business. She will tell you with a smile, but with de- termination: "I'm'uwkward that way. I don't. like talk ing about myself."
That is a pity. For hers is a career to inspire every ambitious young woman.
FIVE
London Express Service
WOMEN
MADE GOOD
By ADAM BOTHWELL
D
Murder, who has played leading part in building Byard Manufacturing,
好
"We've a very high level of team work," she says. "If a woman wants to make a success she must remember to be womanly.
It's when she starts to ape
a man that trouble arises."
To test his idea he bought 100 sets and hired them out at 3. week. His headquarters 10s.-a-week re-room office in Brighton.
#
were
Hilda kept the books and deal with callers.
now
Thoes ware beginnings of Radlo -Rentals, which has nore than 250,000 radio and TV sets out on hire and made a trading pront last year of £740,000.
Nottingham company which Another managing direc- rauks as Britain's biggest tor's secretary who has maker of hair nets and has
risen. to the second also an important lace busi-
highest post in her com- ness.
Margaret of the two executive direc tors of Trust
"But she has never been which director. Finance houses don't
and like
one
She has risen in 20 years from earning a shop assis- Mrs Phillips-Marder join- pany is Miss tant's wage to be probably ed the business, then a tiny Phillips, the highest-paid woman affair, in 1912, executive in Britain,
when
21. WAS
she Hard, Her first cash came from good work earned teaching mathematics in
her a boardroom Wallasey High School. She
job. gave up, teaching to earn a few more pounds a week in the Bon Marche, Liverpool fashion store.
Gradually she worked her way up to become general manager. And in 1943 promotion to the board of the controlling company, Lewis's, Ltd., run by Tory boss Lord Woolton.
came
A DIRECTOR
WHEN Lord Woolton_last
She went on to become mana- ging director. In 1950 .she took over the chair- manship as well.
Mrs. NEVEN
DU MONT "Don't ape men."
A widow with no children, Mrs Phillips - Marden is very comfortably in the surtax class.
to
From a 3-n-week typist company director in 6IX years is pretty good
summer bought London's great Selfridge store he re- going. That is the record shuffled the board, and put Miss Wilkinson on it.
Now, in her middle 50's, she supervises the buying of all the couts,, dresses,
or.ns
"I'm very proud of my wife," says Mr Pening-Thoms. "She could always have talen the business if anything happened to me.
women-and
Though
over
had
D
Mrs Ferring-Thoms
Houses,
especially
operates
280 they don't like
man and wifo
hotels and inns
teams."
throughout Bri-
tain.
She
joined
part.
Trust Houses in
1917 owned
it when
between! 60 and 70 hotels, and, as she says, "I've grown up with it."
Sound work earned her a seat in the boardroom in 1948. Now she is deputy to the managing director,
"I haven't found that being a woman has mude the slightest difference
to
- Mrs Marie Louise Neven my promotion. There is no Du Mont, director and prejudice here against general manager of Jacq- women in top jobs," is her mar, the fashion house.
view.
Says she: "I knew very BACKROOM GIRL furs, and hats sold in little about business when Lewis's stores and in Self- I took the typist's job. But ridges.
I became Personal A MAN
Last year the directors of secretary to the managing, the group shared £175,000 director.
in pay. Miss Wilkinson's
share? I would guess the "As one person figure at anything from another went off to £10,000 to £12,000,
who believes there IS a prejudice against women directors is Mr Percy Perring-Thoms. And he is sad about it, be- after cause he knows that with- the out-his wife he could not
war, I got extra jobs to do have built the £2,000,000
One of her colleagues says until I found myself business he manages. Yet
this of her: "She has the balanced judgment of a man with the intuitive qualities of a woman."
It is not often that
general manager.
"Then in 1946, when we became a public company, I
a woman is asked by her went on the board.”
A
all the time she has had to remain a "backroom girl."
In 1930- Mr Thoms was traveller for an electrical Árm. His wife Hilda worked in drapers.
he-sntd: -"People One day It is often said that men · won't work for a. woman don't buy a telephone outright. They hire it. Why, then; do But that happened to boss. But that is not Mrs they buy a radio set? Why not Mrs. Estella Phillips- Du Mont's experience.
male co-directors to take over the chairmanship of a company.
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