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).
Circular outlining the formation and benefits of an apprentices' association.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 142\1\ scan0271 | |
| Date | 3rd November 1938 guessed | |
| Mrs Reece 204 Elec. Lab. CIRCULATE TO ALL APPRENTICES To All Superintendents and Foremen. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} THE ROLLS-ROYCE APPRENTICES' ASSOCIATION. ====================================== This Association has been formed for the purpose of helping all Rolls-Royce Apprentices to get the best out of their Apprenticeship. All Apprentices are eligible. Some of the benefits conferred by membership of the Association are as follows:- 1. Works visits. These are organized periodically. Apprentices are enabled to visit other works, engineering and otherwise, and see how other firms carry on their business. The educational advantage of this scheme is very great. Apprentices are paid while absent from work for this purpose. 2. Lectures, Talks and Demonstrations are arranged during the winter months to enable Apprentices to receive expert instruction in their craft or to hear interesting talks on all kinds of subjects. 3. The social side of the Apprentice's life is taken care of by the Association. Dinners, dances and other social events are arranged. 4. A clubroom on the Welfare Ground will soon be available for the use of members of the Association for recreation, games, reading etc. 5. Members of the Association will automatically become members of the Rolls-Royce Welfare Amenities Society, which will grant them the use of the Welfare Ground. Special privileges will be allowed to members of the Association to enable them to join various sports sections. 6. The Association is conducted and managed entirely by the Apprentices themselves. It is non-party, non-political, non-sectarian, but just PRO-APPRENTICE. Your help is earnestly invited to advise and encourage all Apprentices under your control to join the Association. See Swindl Cain. | ||