From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
From the British Sangamo Company outlining their conditions of sale, including clauses for an extended guarantee and fair wages.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 164\3\ img214 | |
| Date | 1st May 1938 | |
| BRITISH SANGAMO COMPANY CONDITIONS OF SALE. The Conditions governing the acceptance of this tender are :— MODEL FORM OF GENERAL CONDITIONS RECOMMENDED BY THE INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH CONTRACTS FOR GOODS AND MATERIALS OTHER THAN CABLES (HOME, WITHOUT ERECTION) with the following additional Clauses : CLAUSE 13. EXTENDED GUARANTEE.—The guarantee period of 6 months specified in Clause 9 of the General Conditions is hereby extended to include the provisions of Clause 47 of British Standard Specification No. 37-1930 for Electricity Meters, that is to say :— If at any time within one year after date of delivery any of the goods shall be found to be registering with an error in excess of the limits prescribed by the British Engineering Standards Association’s Specification for Electricity Meters and shall not have been subjected to unreasonable usage* and such goods are promptly returned to us carriage paid we will at our expense adjust them to register within the prescribed limits. Furthermore, if at any time within three years after the date of delivery any defect in material or workmanship shall, under proper use, become apparent, and the goods are promptly returned to us, carriage paid, we will make good the defect at our own expense. Subject to the foregoing, we will accept no liability for any loss or damage due to defects in the goods or to failure of guaranteed performance. * Unreasonable usage shall imply, amongst other things, mechanical damage, over-running of shunt-coils, storing or use in a damp or corrosive atmosphere. CLAUSE 14. FAIR WAGES.—We also undertake to be bound by the following Fair Wages Clauses :— (a) The Contractor shall pay rates of wages and observe hours of labour not less favourable than those commonly recognized by employers and trade societies (or, in the absence of such recognized wages and hours, those which in practice prevail amongst good employers) in the trade in the district where the work is carried out. Where there are no such wages and hours recognized or prevailing in the district, those recognized or prevailing in the nearest district in which the general industrial circumstances are similar shall be adopted. Further, the conditions of employment generally accepted in the district in the trade concerned shall be taken into account in considering how far the terms of the Fair Wages Clauses are being observed. . . . Sub-letting, other than that which may be customary in the trade concerned, shall be prohibited. The Contractor shall be responsible for the observance of the Fair Wages Clauses by the Sub-contractor. (b) When the installation of machinery and plant is carried out by men sent from the Contractor’s or Sub-contractor’s establishment they shall receive the time rate payable in terms of the Fair Wages Clauses to such workpeople in such establishment and in addition shall receive the out-working allowances recognized for outworkers sent from such establishment. (c) Workmen taken on "at site" for the purpose of erection shall be paid the time rates payable in terms of the Fair Wages Clauses to workpeople of the same class employed in engineering establishments in the district in which the work of erection is carried out. The first of the above Clauses forms part of the House of Commons Resolution of 10th March, 1909 British Sangamo Co., Ltd., Cambridge Arterial Road, Enfield, Middlesex, England. Sheet A1/0538. | ||