G. & J. WEIR LTD.
FEED PUMPE, CONDENSING PLANTS, EVAPORATORS, FEED WATER HEATERS, MARINE, AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT.
ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD. H.K. & Shanghal Bank Bldg. Tel. 27789
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This big press shapes out body parts. The steel bar across its base is a safety device. It forces the worker backwards out of danger as the press descends.
SPACE MEN?
ABOVE-The "space-men "* suits and masks are for pro- tection against flying metal dust. Wearers are Mr. B. Walsworth, of Luton, smooth- ing down ear-body (eight), and Mr. M. F. Street, waiting for the next car to work on.
LEFT.---New multi - welding runchines do in an hour what * crew of men used to do in a day. Mr. R. Summerville, whose home town is Falkirk, Scotland, feeds's door to one of these machines. London Express Service.
THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1954,
NEW
SHEAFFER'S
ADMIRAL
SNORKEL
PEN
The Man Who Walks 7 Miles To Work On Motorcars
He Does It In 56 Minutes
THAT with the thud-
machines, the sharp smell of hot metal, and the silence of 14,000 workers as they work on their skilled tasks, you would think the Vaux- hall car factory at Luton is a pretty impersonal hive. The men Arrive work, leave, get paid at the end of The week--and that's all.
After work he changes again home of the
and ev
same rate.
He has an athletic cyc on the Olympic Games at Mel- working eye is on 1950, too, for bourne in 1930. All day his
he is pattern maker ih the "hush-husly" section, where the cars for that year are already being designed.
SOMETHING UNUSUAL
fla 11-year-old son Peter, one of his three children, shows athletic promise. "But I don't make him train yet. I see that he plays all sorts of games,"
But it is not so. Worlding comparative allence is imposed by the noise. Talking also leads to carelessness. A careless mishap can stop the assembly lines dead, Then one vehicle is jost in every minute from the day's output. 22, bumming as she works,
Halts like that can make life un- pleasant for Tom Mowbray, He is in charge of feed- Ing two tons of inoteriais DVETY minute
plant,
to
the
or around 1,000 tons a day.
From these
rome 750 tons of
new cars, vans trucks
and
cach
On an upstairs floor where 98 women sit at sewing machines putting upholstery together you
Miss Helen may catch
Wood,
Industries that Build Britain's Future.
By ROBERT WALLING
day. The remaining 250 tons? They go back, mostly to the mills as scrap.
Vauxhall's do not want wosle
Sho
back from singing in Denmark with the
MR "BOXER" MADDOX
He explains about handles.
Luton Girls' Mr H. R. Hopkins, personnal
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the and wellare manager, says the noise factory is an "established com-
10munity."
Choir. factory
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strain
her her
she has to
when
voice
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say something her departmental chlof? "It doesn't bother me a bit, she says. There is something unusual about her 95 women colleagues in the factory, too. None has husband,
D
"The most important thing in successful management is that the worker understands what is he happening all the time," asserts, That's why, although we have had domestic differ- ences, the factory has not stopped work in 20 years."
dropped. The workers went on
In the 1951 crisis when sheet production Miss Ella Couldwell, the fore- steel became short, of time. They want to see better woman explains: "Mar- economy in the use of materials, ried women knowing that a one per cent absent 50 many saving in sheet steel, for in- stance, would mean many thou- sands a year,
FIGURE IN TRUNKS
cause
have to, to a four-day week, taking turns
to work the fifth day. be- times
Gr the
of the baby husband. It upsets production, and lets down the rest of the factory."
Man with the oddest job is "Boxer" Maddox, 36-year-old
Still, unusual things do hap- assistant manager of the service
technical division.
pen.
If you stand outside the gates before the factory opens in the morning you will see a figure in 1runka and singlet swinging through them. He is $7-year-old George Coleman, heading for the changing room of the sports club.
Arm's
One of his duties is to explain to customers why the cars are sent out without starting handies. A quarter of a millon Vauxhalls are now on the world's roads without one.
Eventually 800 men had to be released. Fifty were found work in other sections. The remainder got jobs outside.
"Since then," says Mr Hopkins, well over half of them have come back to us."
All promotion is from within. Absenteeism is less than one half of one per cent.
Bre
Introduced
fre-
The workers' Interest in their jobs is constantly being stimu lated by change-fresh fools and methods They dropped the handle divo quently, apart from the fairly regular change-over to now
The Arm have models.
£1,800,000 of new obtained capital. Most is to be spent on now machines,
still
years ago, and motorists write to them about it.
"We tell inquirers that modern electrical equipment is so ro- liable that the handic
acorge Is the Olymple walker. On a breakfast of te and porridge be walks seven miles from his home in 06 minutes. That's a mile less the Olympic standard in the obsolete," he says,
time.
"Just to keep me he explains, "Serious
I do at the week-ends,"
in fettle, training
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GENERAL HOLIDAY THURSDAY, JULY 1 By Air
India, Ceylon, 10 a.m. Japan, Korea, 1 p.m Philippines, Guam, Hawali, U.S.A. and Canada. 2 p.m.
Гордом, 2 р.т.
Indo-Chine, France, 2 p.m. Philippines, North Borneo, 4 p.m.
By surface
China, Peoplo's 'Repabile, 8:30 am Macao Dan.
Japan, UBA.. Contral & South
America, 11.m.
Malaya, Ceylon.
India,
Audient. Middle East, Great Britain de Bus
rope, Noon.
Does Mr Maddox run Q car without handle? He has no car, rides a bicycle,
FEWER JOBS?
now
Listen to Mr J. M. Impey, foreman of welding maintenance, talking of his favourites, a bat- tery al multiple hydromatic
Sitting at an accountancy desk welders. These are unknown in is 16-your-old Anthony Gregory.
of Hitchin Road, Linton, who is
at the start of the factory apprentice course,
Europe, except for some in a German factory.
"With hand-operation we used
He plays for England in youth to weld 300 doors in a day," he "Now the matches weld International soccer, and twice says,
weekly does lap running and 1,800 In The hours." ball practice on the firm's sports Do these machines mean fewer ground after work. He wants to jobe? The answer is that more be a professional footballer.
men
are working because the "But father says I can do that production volume went up 39 only so long as I keep up per cent last year. accountancy, If.I fail at football
"Otherwise,"
says one of the
I shall then have a job to fall executives, you would not be back on. So the next thing is able to order o now car and get to pass my accountancy exams." it within 12 months."
SIDE. GLANCES
By Galbraith
Miss Helen Wood, who sings In Luton Girls' Choir, sews
the upholstery for car seats.
Olympic walker George Coleman, chiselling designs in wood for 1956 cars, walks seven miles to work every day.
ار
Anthony Gregory, 16-year-old youth International fool baller, wants to become a professional. He is taking the factory apprentice course,
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