Industrial Management: Volume 72 Issue 10
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Cheque Wait
An engineering company in the South Midlands recently overhauled its accounts system, cutting staff by 10% and presumably hoping for greater efficiency. What they might not have…
Inside Westminster
Paul NovakINDUSTRY CAN ONLY benefit from the efforts of Airey Neave, chairman of the powerful all‐party Select Committee on science and technology. Neave was one of the first prisoners of…
ELEPHANTS among the chickens
Keith Mayes‘The relative failure of the antitrust laws proves yet again that legislation is only as strong as the will that enforces it. Since the end of the New Deal it has made little…
MM stakes out the entrepreneurs
MAURICE BARNFATHERMidland Montagu's bread‐and‐butter business, according to financial executive Keith Gutteridge, is investment in small but fast growing companies. In return, it seeks an equity…
TWO DEGREES OVER
For a man who wants to see stronger links between industry and universities, Professor Roland Smith sets his own example. Qualified in economics and marketing, he is the…
MIA stitch up Iron Curtain contracts
Metalock, world‐wide specialists in engineering repairs, have found an effective way of overcoming political and financial obstacles in' Communist bloc operations. It sets up a…
Compensating the strike innocents
Robert Robertson‘The financial loss suffered by companies, due to no fault of their own but brought about by the reaction of a section of the community to a situation caused by Government…
Government rejects CBI plea for a graduate employment policy
THE GOVERNMENT sees absolutely no reason why it should try and persuade universities to up‐date their courses so that students are better‐equipped to earn a living in Britain's…
Too much bottom‐sitting makes Lord Orr‐Ewing, chairman of the Metrication Board, feel sluggish. The cure, says the 60‐year‐old wartime radar officer is plenty of ski‐ing and cricket
LORD ORR‐EWING, chairman of the Metrication Board, is tall and slim and walks with the effortlessly controlled quickness of an athlete. But this is not surprising, because he is…
Waste reclamation saves the British economy £250 million a year, but too much potentially valuable material is still condemned to the rubbish tip. Preston Witts, in the second of a two‐part pollution feature, looks at some of the latest developments to plug this drain on resources—particularly in liquid and chemical waste
Scrap merchants, to quote the words of one of their leading spokesmen, ‘have been making money for a long time’. But in the fashionable era of the environmentalist, the work of…
THE SHINE COMES BACK TO BRITISH STEEL
After going through the worst of the periodic post‐war depressions, prospects for the British steel industry at last begin to gleam, with current output showing a marked…
Package deal with three dimensions
One example of Japanese ingenuity—using a material that has applications ranging from packaging to construction—is about to be exploited in the UK and Eire. And it knocks the…
CONCORDE SALES PITCH IS IN THE CAN
Trying to persuade the world's airlines to buy Concorde is a task for which BAC sought the guidance of Weybridge‐based consultants, Marketing and Manpower International. MMI…