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Description: | British civilian worker at White and Poppe Ltd and foreman with Daimler Company in Coventry, GB, 1903-1918
REEL 1 Aspects of period as worker with White and Poppe's Ltd in Coventry, 1903-1910: employment and training at armament factory; relations with employer Peter Poppe; role in aiding setting up automatic machines in government fuse factory and Standard Motor Company; history of White and Poppe's Ltd and attempts to design aircraft engine. Recollections of period as foreman at Daimler Company in Coventry, 1910-1917: background to being made foreman, 1910; wages.
REEL 2 Continues: engines and armaments manufactured; problems in producing Gnome aero-engine; working conditions; working hours; holidays; strict discipline; relations between foreman and workers.
REEL 3 Continues: fatal accident in factory; savings scheme and pay; career as dance band leader. Recollections of period as foreman White and Poppe's Fuse Factory, 1917-1918: transfer to fuse factory, 1917; number of fuses produced; recreational activities; Zeppelin raids; Poppe's invention of fuse to bring down Zeppelin.
REEL 4 Continues: memories of meeting with pilot who shot down Zeppelin; size of work force at Daimler and White and Poppe; work of female employees; safety precautions and accidents at fuse factory; canteen facilities.
REEL 5 Continues: yellowing of munitions workers' skins whilst working with TNT; medical facilities; opinion of female work force; relations between workers and employer; opinion of Poppe's organisational skills; trade union membership; fate of White and Poppe Ltd and Peter Poppe. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ginns, George | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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