WOMAN MANAGER
TYPIST WHO CONTROLS GREAT MOTOR-VAN SERVICE.
The whole motor-van service cf the Gas Light and Coke Company, London, is now in chargo of Miss M. Barrett, who has risen since the war from being a tvpist ih the office until.she now controls a great department hitherto run by a man. . ~ ~. "As one man after another lett, this woman took his place," said Mr. Milne Watson, the managing director. btie arranges for the petrol supplies, keeps records of running costs, arranges tor all repairs, interviews men and women motor-van drivers, and controls the entire business with great accuracy. "We have over 2000 women now working for the company. They cannot drive the heavy lorries or do heavy •stoking, but I think they do everything else. We have had small barrows made for them to wheel, and we lighten the heavv work as much as possible. ■ "The girls did not like wearing trousers at first, but when I saw one working on » coke heap with big fratneis in her hat and high-heeled boots I made im mv mind that that fashion must go. So we provided them with, trousers and overalls and we barred high heels.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 136, 26 February 1918, Page 3
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196WOMAN MANAGER Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 136, 26 February 1918, Page 3
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