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Description: | This section primarily comprises a sequence of 'standard practice sheets' consisting of instructions issued by the Executive Secretary of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company (Great Britain) Limited, or by the Efficiency Department of the Wolverhampton factory, for the operation of the plant. These take the form of general factory notices, usually written by the Efficiency Department; department bulletins; factory manual revisions; general letters, or memoranda which have been bound together in files arranged chronologically by year, beginning in 1927, when the Wolverhampton plant was about to commence production and ending in 1938. Some of these sheets were intended to form part of a factory manual and instructions were approved by factory managers and company officials before being issued. They are a rich source of information about the day to day operations of the factory and the organisation of its employees and include instructions for the payment of wages; the correct conduct of employees; the requisitioning of material; rules concerning meal tickets, canteen sales, holidays and time card agreements; changes to working hours; and changes in personnel.
Also in this section is a copy of a factory manual for standard practice kept by an employee, which contains copies of standard practice sheets issued between 1930 and 1933, and a copy of the manual of the Efficiency Department, which was responsible for compiling many of the standard practice instruction sheets.
The section also contains two versions of the Branch Operating Manual for the Wolverhampton factory, in use between the 1930s and 1950s. These manuals were possibly devised for use by the Office Manager at Wolverhampton, and contain instructions for a wide range of operational procedures. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Temporal: | 1927-1950s | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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