MOTORING.
LITTLE TRICKS THAT I MAKE FORTUNES. I ; \ LONDON,., Fgibruary .5j * A firm of .motor .manufacturers found tliat Lime was. wasted in their works fey men - going to, fetch.. things from the pockets of th ( eir coats. industrial psychologist, .. installed apparatus which. raised-the coat-racks 2hove~the men's heads where they worked., . ... Time was. saved because.; the men had to carry their belongings with thhm. The men arrived more punctually to work to be able to hang up their coats. v I That is one of the stories of their work reported hy the National Institute of Industrial - Psychology. ■ Rpbher ; sponge cushions ’. under J chairs 'and thick felt pads on the footrests Of the machiries did away with the fatfgue of s Women sewing machln- , ists'-and' increased tjieir output by ;5 percent.-:. Q • At a multiple Store customers complained that they had to wait a long > time fox'their change: j- ih the cashier’s department* the cash carrier was on a levhl of tile girls’ knees.-It was raised -Waistrhigh, Hnd the spiled of work-in the department increased by 33 per ehiit.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12528, 13 April 1935, Page 11
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