1957-06-29 — Page 71

THE ART MAKING A NEY

The succe story tha started o

a football field

IT all started with the Christ Church, Gipsy Hill, ball Club.

I Jack Biwthorne mas skipper and inside-left. Rad

s

was club secretary and outside-loft. There was Normening in goal, Johnny Dymock as left-half, Sid Downer half and Harold Whyte outside-right.

And Jack's sisters Helen, Peggy and Jean we on the regular supporters on Saturday af ermoons.

Tonight down at Brighton there is to be a party to

celebrate the success they havo all had as part of another "skle" in the last

21 years.

Jack Bowthorpe is still "skipper"--except that he is called chuirman and managing-lirector now.

And the "team he leads is an electrical engineering firm he started in 1936 and in which his closest friends of the old football days have jobs.

The firm has just report- ed a profit of £500,000 for last year. In the Stock Ex- change its shares are valued at more than £2,000,000,

FIRST RULE

Over the coffee in the

elegant drawing-room of his

Sussex home I naked

3

"And pick chaps to heke uite of offices, “So many young fellows who have the sanpet the floors and then ideas as yourself.

#Mr we're ready for.

"Otherwise there will ging *passengers' - and evET

Jack Bowthorpe-the country home, the rhododendrons, the swimming- pool and the Rolls-Bentley reflect the Art of Making Money

to what you would like them asking for, have, must pull his weight."Thos

uble Get your business Jack Bowthorpe took het d 3vorry about big plunge when he was Jere are going to do it £10-a-week salesman of 30eriod 18.

Bowthorpe what he thought He borrowed £2,000, was his secret of success. hired

He is genial and hand-

THIRD

BES OF ARTICLES

ABOUT EN FURNED SMALL

OPPOES INT BIG FORTUNES

ALEXANDER

SHOM BONA

and burrat desks were off ing capes, and they did

adidly

basement A Southampton Row.

same man, with a neut He bought fittings for more business came

helpers. trans- way, Bowthorpe needed

moustache and greying hair, overhead electrical He has a 22-year-old son, mission lines direct from Peter, and IL daughter, the manufacturers, Sonia, who is one of this sok them to electricity

companies.

season's debutantes.

With a smile he said: "I

am often told I am a belly- BIC MISTAKE acher. But I think that has been a big help."

and

picked his old friends f the football club - whom he knew would ta pride in their work

y hall played well Raymond Parsons, one of her de a team --- "al I looked surprised. the Gipsy Hill boys, came th we ever seemed to Bowthorpe put down his in to help.

wnything more than coffee cup to explain what was really his first rule for

smanship' cups," Bow- th récits. And they wd well together, too..

success.

"When you are starting out on your own you must be a perfectionist. If you don't get the results you want, don't hesitate to say

80.

"There must not be any faire sense of pride, Everyone must be ready to help in everything. "And think of the job all the time even when mowing the fawn at home,"

But he confides that he still hates to have lights left burn-

lug in rooms at home when no one is in them.

And that a week's holiday in the spring and two weeks in the summer are all he ever feels justified in taking.

They ran the firm in those early days just as they had pre- MORE TO COME viously run the Christ Church Football Club,

Fer

the

Jack Bowthorpe, Except that on Mondays, former inside-left of Glosy Hill, instead of having meetings to does not belleve he has scored discuss mistakes in the previous h's last "goal" yet. Saturday's game,

they talked

about the following week's

sales

And it worked like a charm. They prospered.

From selling electrical bits und pieces, they also turned to making them, starting with Uny factory on Pureley Way rentar at 309. a week.

R

Today it is "skipper" Bow- thorpe's boast that every TV ect Britain and airplane built in has some electrical parts pro- duced by his arm.

STILL A TEAM

It has a pay-roll of 1,000 now, but the old "team" spirit has been rettiined.

Each year, the previous year's sales are spilt Into 52 equal parts. To go one better then becomes the weekly target of the various managers. And there is profit-sharing for all.

If we get behind, it astonishing the effort everybody makes to catch up again," Jack

Bowthorpe says.

Today, of course, he is a rich

man

kept the accounts.

In a small notebook, he

His country home set just now Total

in a blaze of rhododendrone; his turnover in the first year

swimming-pool; and #. Rolls. wag £5,000.

Bentley all reflect his suocera the firm Avere Two years. tgo ho sold the Thinking back to the old ripom the start.

dinad simple. That was so publie a block of shares in his basement, with its peeling

rm for £230,000. They have since nearly doubled in price, ceiling and damp walls, they must have,

ntever the customers

He and tria farily still hold Bowthorpe said:

Never shares worth £450,000 at trytalks her into, takhig day'a Stock Exchange quotation.

Par

Not by a long way. ENDPIECE. "Raymond one, Norman Keen and Harold Whyte have become directors of the Am

Dymock is cashier and Down

Jack's private secretary, er a buyer, Peggy to her brother:

Joan looks after welfare, 'And Helen Bowthorpe? She is Mrs Ray- mond Parsons now!,

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