Industrial Management: Volume 71 Issue 1
Table of contents
Professional anarchy
ANYONE WHO STOOD and watched the December 8 workers' march against the Industrial Relations Bill must have been impressed by one thing—how smoothly professional anarchy is these…
For better or for worse…
Viscount Caldecote, chairman of the BNEC Export Council for Europe, attacks those companies which are afraid to accept the challenge of expanding trade with Europe. Whether…
Shipping forecast—fair and foul weather
Roger EglinThe profits of Britain's shipping giants are as different as their interests. The story of luxury liners is still a sad one, but containers, bulk carriers and particularly…
New twist to lasers
Pearce WrightIn the past ten years a so‐called ‘communication explosion’ has placed an immense demand on the world's telecommunications industry for more and more equipment to carry telephone…
The energy gap
Industry has been swaying on the edge of a fuel crisis and the next five years hold even more of a chill prospect. Lesley Bernstein asks Lord Robens, outgoing coal chief, how our…
Fibremen jolted in cut‐price struggle
Competition in the international textiles markets has been tremendous. With the previously‐strong British industry looking unhappy after taking some body blows recently, it is…
KING'S LYNN
Once the third largest port in the country, the London ‘overspill’ town of King's Lynn has been revitalized in the last decade. Richard Brooks examines this once rather sleepy…
Engineering millions‐on easy terms
Kenneth Gooding of the Financial Times talks to William de Vigier, whose management style goes completely against that of the graduate — and whose profits keep hitting record…
Britain looks for a bigger slice of the Swiss gingerbread
Switzerland, the toughest market in Europe, has long felt an affinity to Britain which it would like to turn into trade. John Lawless and Richard Brooks examine our wealthy EFTA…
Highway heavies rumble on
The fight over juggernaut lorries has not been won or lost with the recent ban. The law relating to massive loads has been broken in the past and will no doubt go on being…
Huge losses still in building delays
The cost of building factories and plants is still plagued by massive over‐runs. David Saunders looks at what is being done to improve the whole area of projects management…
Investors cautious of the royal flush
Crown House shares have moved within a fairly narrow price bracket during 1970 with a high of about 6s. 5d. and a low of 4s. 3d. They are currently about one shilling below their…
Freight take‐over on railroads
On the day Apollo XI was launched to the moon, passengers on the Spirit of St. Louis sat down on the track in front of the locomotive until the train's air‐conditioning was…
The case of the counterfeit coins
How does the top man forget office problems in his leisure time? This month, John Lawless talks to Lord Thomson, who, among other things finds pure enjoyment in reading balance…
Monetary in‐fighting
George YoungSeparating shadow from substance, myth from reality, is a perpetual problem in human affairs. Nowhere is this more apparent than in matters monetary. Here the most persistent myth…