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Description: | Beryl Keen enjoyed maths at school and was good at mental arithmetic. When she applied to work with London Transport, she was given a maths test and got every question right.
This helped when she stared working in the payroll department in 1947. She was responsible for working out the wages for about 250 staff each week. In the days before computers, wages were still usually calculated by hand. Beryl recalls that the most difficult. part of this was working out all the deductions.
In 1947, L.T. was still officially the London Passenger Transport Board, formed when the many train, tram and bus companies operating within London joined forces. As Beryl recalls, each of the older companies had their own traditions where staff made weekly contributions to clubs and societies at many different rates. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Work | Temporal: | 1940-1949 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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