CO129-540-12 Facilities for staff to attend wireless telegraphy courses while on leave 20-5-1932 - 6-4-1933 — Page 23

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Marconi House,

Strand, V.C.2

19th October, 1922.

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Gentlemen,

We duly received your letter M/Pass.1809/19 of the 14th inst. informing us that the Government of Uganda has asked you to arrange for Mr. C. A. Gutteridge to undergo a course in Wireless

We are Telegraphy, and that you would like us to offer facilities. at all times glad to help you and will be pleased to do so in this case, but we must advise you that there may be a charge for instruction.

For the benefit of our engineers and for our customers' engineers, we maintain a special wireless engineering college at Chelmsford with experienced instructors and very complete equipment for the individual instruction of a complement of about 20 students. If a customers' engineer requires instruction only in the use of particular apparatus supplied, in general it is possible to arrange for such instruction in the Works or Works Testing Dept. with some short attendance at the college, and such instruction is of course free. If the engineer requires an extended course of instruction in the College on general wireless theory and practice, and provision has been made for such instruction when the business was arranged with the customer, such instruction will also be free, and even if provision has not been made if the business has been of sufficient magnitude the instruction may be free. But where no provision has been made Our charge and the business has been very small, a charge is made.

The student usually in such cases is at the rate of £40. a quarter. visits the College and has an interview with the Superintendent of Instruction, who arranges a course of instruction suited to the time available and to the students knowledge and experience and the work he is to be engaged upon. A copy of this course is sent to the customer, and also during the course monthly reports on the student's progress are sent.

In the case of students not coming from customers or from our Associated Companies our charge for instruction is at the rate of £50. per quarter.

In order that we may say whether or not we should have to charge for Mr. Gutteridge's instruction, it will be necessary to know upon what work he will be engaged, i.e. whether employed on some installations supplied by the Company or on installations the Uganda Government are contenplating purchasing from the Company, and to enable our Superintendent of Instruction to make the best use of the time available we should eventually require to know the nature of the installations.

In the meantime we shall be very pleased to start

Mr. Gutteridge at Chelmsford, either in the Works, the Testing Dept., or the College, according to the circumstances of his particular case.

Yours faithfully,

MARCONI'S WIRELESS TELEGRAPH CO.LTD.,

(Sgd) ANDREW GRAY.

Chief Engineer.

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