The Apprentice Training School of Leyland Motors, Lid., Provides a
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Valuable Pool of Competent Personnel of all Grades for the Commercial vehicle Industry
ONE of the major problems facing the industrialist to-day is the lack of any pool from which to draw when vacancies for trained personnel occur. To remedy such difficulties, farsighted manufacturers have long had training schemes in operation. A particularly thorough system is employed by Leyland Motors, Ltd.
Training may be divided into internal and external categories.. The former is for employees of the factory who are being prepared for positions in the company and in industry generally, and the latter for customers and their staffs, who are given brief training to acquaint them with the features of new products.
The internal category is subdivided into trade apprentices, engineering students, university students (comprising vacation courses as well as postgraduate apprenticeships) and commercial, students. .Boys leaving school a laboratory, handicrafts room, drawing tuition room and gymnasium. During the first two years the subjects covered are mathematics, science, industrial history, English and literature, practical drawing and physical training.
Ordinarily, a three-year course is worked, giving a grounding for the Advanced National Certificate in Engineering issued by the Board of Education in co-operation with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Boys coach and body finisher. Junior tradesmen are selected to enter the drawing office after having gone through an appropriate period of apprentice training, special classes being arranged for the purpose.
The engineering students' course is spread over a period of three' years, students being moved through the various branches of the factory so as to acquire a comprehensive knowledge of the many processes essential in commercial-vehicle manufacture. Students pass through machine shops, foundries, pattern, -erecting and repair shops, also through the offices, including the. drawing office. Six weeks is the period normally spent in each department.
All engineering students live together in a hostel which has extensive grounds, gymnasium, workshop and many other amenities.
Intake for the course is limited to 10