Industrial Management: Volume 71 Issue 8
Table of contents
Election under EEC smokescreen?
LOGICAL EXTENSION OF THE GOVERNMENT'S policies indicates that Mr. Heath is already setting his sights on an early general election date. Unless there is a dramatic change within…
VAT '73
Terence HigginsTHE INTRODUCTION IN APRIL 1973 of Value Added Tax and the abolition of selective employment and purchase taxes will be the most fundamental change in our system of indirect…
As Tories head for self‐help schemes…: Confusion over pension funds
Roger EglinA woman whose husband died suddenly applied to his firm's pension fund trustees for cash benefit. After considerable delay, back came a long letter which was so financially…
Industrial action replay
Tim JohnsonCustomers of one of ICI's industrial divisions are going to find themselves getting a new kind of sales pitch before very long. The salesman will have a neat little box which…
FIRMS BLIND TO RESEARCH POWER
Today, technology is preeminent. But in a ‘quick and the dead’ world, Britain seems unable to turn ideas into profits. Richard Brooks examines the increasing complexities from the…
Through his father's eyes
In the second of a series of exclusive interviews, the Duke of Edinburgh talks to Industrial Management editor John Lawless about himself, his hopes for Prince Charles and their…
NIGERIA: OIL HEALS THE WOUNDS
Life returns to normal after the Biafran war. Yet outside businessmen are still wary of the economic climate in spite of the country's new oil riches. Lesley Bernstein reports
Boss of a powerful brew
Alan Walker, 60‐year‐old chairman of Bass Charrington, faced the unenviable task of merging several brewing firms of widely differing character. Ken Gooding talks to the man…
HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS
Industrial expansion is the first priority in the most northerly part of Britain. Alexander Aurens and photographer John Benton‐Harris visited this beautiful 14,000 square miles…
REFLATION MOVES LIFT TYRE GLOOM
NOWHERE IN BRITISH INDUSTRY has Barber's mini‐Budget been greeted with more relief than among tyre manufacturers. For them, the Chancellor's action in cutting purchase tax will…
HEADLINES and BREADLINES
FLEET STREET'S ADVERTISING and editorial departments have always been frigid bedfellows. Amorous advances are confined to a little back‐scratching over things like ad‐pulling…
The silent men at Upper Clyde
THE MANAGEMENT at the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' Clydebank Division wear white safety helmets and grey suits and eat their meals in a bright white canteen with waitress service…
J‐registration Marples
Anyone out for a stroll in London's parks might well have puzzled over the way in which some of the oaks and elms are marked with a mysterious letter ‘J’. If they had been around…
S & N set for gala profit
After a successful year in 1970, Smith & Nephew Associated Companies are showing every sign of continuing their performance in the current year, although margins are not as…
Corporate giants duck out
Keith MayesFlying in from Chicago, Bunker‐Ramo Corporation boss Frank J. Allston, Jr., looks at the yellowy‐brown pall hanging over New York City and thanks heaven he is not still living…
Thesis of doom
Kenneth HuntThis is an ‘alarming book’, says the blurb on the jacket, about ‘the relation between science and technology, war and peace’, uncovering ‘a number of ways by which we may bring…