Leyland Breaks with Secrecy
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]EMBERS of the Leyland Motors' 01 Engineering Society, with hundreds of their friends, attended the second annual President's Night, last week, when they spent two hours in a conducted tour of the chassis assembly factory at the Farington works.
After the inspection there was a film show, and, in a farewell address, the president, Mr. Henry Spurrier, M.I.Mech.E., told the visitors that the object of this family night was to show friends of the employees something of the work involved in producing modern passenger and goods vehicles.
The company wanted to break away from the secrecy of pre-war days, and felt that there must be a good deal of pooling of ideas if the manufacturers of the Nation were to sell their products in the markets of the world. Leyland Motors' Engineering Society had been formed after the war, and, except for a few senior officials, its membership was limited to staff and workpeople not over 25 years of age.
Certain of its efforts were specially directed to giving men who had been in the Forces an opportunity of acquiring the higher technical education that previously they might have missed. Exe7 cutives had found great difficulty in locating young men who would come forward and take on responsible tasks.
The chassis assembly factory is part of the Farington estate of Leyland Motors, Ltd. That section of the plant consists of eight bays, each 477 ft. long, and, in spite of a shortage of raw materials, the, present production averages more than one chassis every halfhour.
Those present included Mr. W. E. Meese, North Western Licensing Authority.