WORK STUDY DEPARTMENT
Since our last appearance in the Mixed Batch we have moved offices, we are now up in the clouds at the top of the old offices, and we have at last got daylight.
We must say a sad farewell to Miss Gloria Cook who has been transferred to a department in the works, good luck Gloria.
We also have to welcome four new-comers to the department.
Miss June Gibson who came to us from Sales Progress.
Mr. G. Hebron who came to us from the Joiners Shop.
Mr. W. Clucas from Ediswan Limited.
Mr. A. Kimbley who was transferred from the Cost Department.
We hope that they will all be happy and enjoy themselves at James A. Jobling’s.
Congratulations to Mr. T. Rigg and his wife on the birth of a second son, better luck next time Tom. We all know you were on guard with the shot gun after the last time but you must admit it still got past you.
Cricket season has begun again and most of our department have gone into training for the season. We hope that they will get many runs and spin all their opponents out.
Our cricketers are:-
Jack Lofthouse, Harry Curry, Leslie Watt, Joe Storey, Rob Lumsden and Bill Clucas.
PLANT AND SERVICES DEPARTMENT
The life of Plant and Service Works so far has been short, and we cannot claim to have been in existence as such for 100 years, but our function as the Maintainers, Installers and Modifiers, started with the first piece of glass made and has continued under different titles ever since. There is little doubt that our predecessors in this essential service, were grumbling then as we do today, at having to work on ‘High days and Holidays’. Then as now, ours has been a silent service, our virtues rarely praised, our faults always to the forefront. Production must always go on and the men of Plant and Service Works have always done their best to see that this is done.
For those who do not know us well, a few facts may account for the slightly worried air with which many of us go about our daily tasks: Last year we consumed 361,480,000 cu. ft. of Gas, 23,412,000 Units of Electricity, 24,560,000 cu. ft. of Oxygen.
In our spare time, when not too deeply involved in such major tasks as building new Factories, Opal Lines, Glass Tanks etc., time was found to complete 2157 ‘R’ Notes, which cover the day to day improvement and alterations required by all the different departments in the company,
Our Fitters in close conjunction with their allied trades, the Plumbers, Sheet Metal Workers, Welders and the Blacksmith, in a very crowded year have been continuously employed in making new process lines and machines such as 2nd Line Opal, Automatic Spraying Machine, Turret Chain Lipping Machine, this despite the fact that they had to make do with very unsuitable temporary workshop accommodation while their own was being built. Tempers have improved steadily since our new home became organised.
Our services continue to improve and the first two giant Ingersoll Rand Compressors are now working and there are two more of them to come. A large Vacuum Pump has been installed to meet the needs of the Turret Chain Machine. Water Circulating Systems are being altered and added to so that our annual wastage of water is reduced and it appears probable that our Oxygen House will shortly have to double it’s capacity.
In the Building Maintenance Section there have been few signs of rest or comfort. Our builders aided by the Steel Erectors and others are going from strength to strength in Tank Building. They are now full of confidence and realise that Corning Glassworks in America do not possess magicians who build their Tanks for them in six weeks from ‘glass to glass’. With the aid of a Fork Lift Truck and a bit of good team work, we can do as well as, if not better than our colleagues on the other side of the Atlantic.
Our Joiners have worked sometimes like supermen to fit in with all the alterations that have been going on to our premises. They never leave off making gadgets and fittings which are wanted to improve the standards of work in the manufacturing departments and they have never failed to pull one out of the hat when it is necessary to keep the wheels turning.
Our Painters should not be forgotten as their’s is a thankless task in a Glassworks. As soon as they have removed the dirt of ages, not only do the smuts soon settle again but their nice clean smooth surfaces have regularly been used as scrap paper for calculations and sketches, and the uncleanly place their oily finger marks in the most prominent
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