Wolsey in those days had quite a number of factories in Leicester, and in the Midlands generally, and I was put into a department known as the Bedaux department, and that had been started two or three years previously, a sort of efficiency department, and had just come through rather nasty strike, which effected a number of the factories, but by the time I had joined that was all over and things were working quite smoothly. Our role really was to (a) to make the work more efficient and (b) to see that payment by results, the payment was in line with the work that was done, so there was quite a bit of time study, with the stopwatch, to check you had got the right, the most efficient way of doing things, and also the payment was based upon the amount of time necessary for the various jobs.
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