Industrial Management: Volume 71 Issue 9
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Talented quick and bankrupt dead
MANAGEMENT CANNOT HAVE COME through one of the toughest periods in British industrial history without becoming much sharper and more professional. Those companies which have gone…
Nothing succeeds like service
‘There are a number of basic business rules, all too frequently neglected or not even understood,’ — Charles Tayler, marketing director, Decca Radar.
Car makers ride over Nixon tariffs
Roger EglinBehind the broadening smiles of Britain's car bosses, watching production lines slipping into top gear, lies the fervent hope that the industry will no longer be used as an…
‘The dollar in your pocket…’
Keith MayesThere is something warm and comforting about hearing a Texan, declare ‘Ah b'lieve’. When Secretary of the Treasury John Bowden Connally went before the press to offer some…
BRITISH INDUSTRY ON NADER SECRECY CHARGE
As pressure grows over pollution of the environment Nader's Raider William Osborn, has come from America to set up a strong consumer protection organization. Richard Brooks talks…
ALUMINIUM: wildfire build‐up outstrips demand
The aluminium industry forges ahead with new multi‐million pound smelters, despite a sudden levelling‐off in demand. Leslie Kenton talks to the managers who have to find a rapid…
SCANLON'S £700 MILLION TEST CASE
Hugh Scanlon is obviously attempting a killing. But is his victim going to be the employers, who say his current wage claim would wipe out half the country's engineering firms? Or…
SECURITY GUARD ON PROFITS
Securicor has a ‘turnover’ of £20,000 million a year—handling the money and wage packets of other firms. But in fact the group has diversified its activities a lot from pure…
SCUNTHORPE
Steel appeal has given Scunthorpe phenomenal growth, and unparalleled dependence on one industry. The British Steel Corporation, troubled by falling profits and price curbs, is…
Play‐safe Lamson looks good
Patrick ByrneThe Lamson Industries performance in 1970 was not entirely satisfactory, at least from its own viewpoint, in as much as the healthy surge in sales was not matched by an…
Glide‐lines for mobility
A new kind of electric motor, gaining strength on the industrial scene, is forcing engineers to look at problems afresh as well as making managers weigh the costs and benefits of…
Liberal leader goes to the country
The Liberal Party leader has spent the summer renovating his 16th century Devon cottage. But, as he tells Richard Brooks, he has also had to find time to take up the violin again…
The multinationals
Christopher TugendhatWhether or not this is a critical moment in the relationship between governments and multi‐national companies, as Christopher Tugendhat suggests, he has succeeded in the difficult…