A spate of schemes designed to enhance the personal wellbeing of the Company's people began in 1921, though perhaps none was more popular than the general permission to smoke in the works, granted the previous year.

Among the former were John Alcock, a Manchester man who had a brilliant war record in the air, and Arthur W. Brown, a B.W. apprentice of 1902 ...

Here everything affecting the interests of women workers was discussed with representatives of the Company and the foremistresses; on the very first agenda was an item 'brewing', which put works tea-making at once into its rightful place of importance.

The opportunities for women as professional engineers were underlined in 1920, when Miss Gertrude Entwisle, who had joined motor department in 1915 as the only woman on the technical staff of the Company, became the first woman Associate Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. page 94

Plate - "A long haul from Sydney" - horses drawing a transformer

The works medical services continued to expand in scope. Dr. Max W. Robinson, who succeeded his father in September 1946, now has a medical staff of seventeen including a full-time assistant medical officer, a sister-in-charge, and nine state registered nurses.

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nearly 250 buses, about one-fifth of the local municipal transport, are at the works gates morning and evening

A year's inflow now amounts to about a hundred graduates and another eighty professional apprentices together with about 230 trade apprentices. Though most of the latter are subsequently employed as craftsmen, a large number become technicians or professional engineers.