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George Bartup
• Ex-RAF navigator George Bartup, managing director of Trevor Williams (Removers) Ltd, Hereford, takes over as 1970 president of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers at a crucial time for the industry. In his own business he employs advanced forms of cost-control and estimating and, modestly, he is glad to learn from others. Mr G. C. Bettye, senior tutor at Leicester Regional Polytechnic, an adviser to NAFWR on management accounting, and a TASC team from the RTITB, have recently visited the Trevor Williams company.
In his presidential year George Bartup will no doubt foster the ideas on training, trade education and effective business organization that he has urged in NAFWFi. Regular attendance at West Midland area meetings, 50 miles from his adopted home town of Hereford, led to executive appointments in the Association; service on labour relations, removals costings, and general purposes committees ensure that the new president is well versed in the main problem areas. Like many removers George learned the trade in his father's business at Brighton.
If all furniture removers' premises were as well-fitted and well-designed as those of Trevor Williams at Hereford an observer might conclude that the industry was doing very nicely thank you! Of course, such a generalization would be wide of the mark. Removers are intensely concerned at rising costs, falling return on invested capital, and unfair competition from newcomers.
George Bartup believes that more accurate estimating is an essential requirement of the industry. He showed me a draft form setting out the many items to be filled in by an experienced estimator which may provide a model for widespread use. The provision of a surcharge when customers do not fulfil their. side of the bargain will be widely welcomed by the trade, though the Consumers Association may raise their collective eyebrows) Although the Trevor Williams premises overlook Hereford racecourse George Bartup seldom watches; he prefers golf and a bit Of bricklaying in the time left to him from family and participation in local affairs.
Mindful of his wartime flying experience George Bartup said as we parted: "Businesses today do not fly like early pilots by the seat of their pants; just as blind flying instruments were introduced as a necessity, business today needs modern management techniques--the equivalent of aircraft instrumentation." I am sure that George Bartup is right. NAFVVR should take a tip from this year's pilot. J. D.