REORGANIZATION TAKEN IN HAND
Some details of the changes at the works during 1906 and 1907 will show how in Lange's hands the organization began to take shape. Separate trading departments were formed, and departmental accounts and departmental stores set up: the general order department, previously responsible for the whole of the commercial side, was eventually disbanded. Superintendents were put in charge of the various manufacturing departments, Mitchell having returned to America at the end of 1905, and the works accounting, already split up into separate sections, was put under their control.

Among the early superintendents was W. Stead, who made many gas-engine improvements before his departure in 1909. To the engine department also came H. Mensforth in 1904 and G. E. Bailey in 1907, both destined to hold the highest positions on the manufacturing side, and the latter to become chairman of Company. Within two years of his joining (from the Brush Company at Loughborough), Bailey was made chief draughtsman, and by 1913 he had succeeded Mensforth as superintendent.

On the electrical side, towards the end of 1906, M. A. McLean left the drawing office to follow a Spaniard, G. del Rivo, as superintendent of the large machine department, and at the same time Lange took J. S. Peck on to his personal staff as consulting electrical engineer. Two years later E. Rosenberg, an Austrian from the A.E.G. Company, was appointed chief electrical engineer. Rosenberg who remained until the outbreak of war, had won an early reputation by his book Electrical Engineering and had published many papers on electrical subjects, including his cross-field type of dynamo.

From 1905 A. M. Randolph, son of a Bishop of Virginia, was superintendent of the supply department, dealing with switchgear, instruments and meters and taking over control gear in the following year. His chief cost clerk, W. Wilkinson, is still at Trafford Park as assistant to the comptroller (costings).

The general engineering department, then under T. F. Schoepf, was transferred from London to Trafford Park in 1906, but it was merged into the large machine department three years later.

An important development was the first real effort to recruit apprentices for professional engineering courses. To start with, each superintendent had his own apprentices, but m 1908 the training was centralized under A. P. M. Fleming, a step that was to have results of inestimable value.