ABSTRACT
In 1943 an extensive survey had been made of the Company’s manufacturing position in an attempt to plan a peacetime future, and this was reviewed from time to time as the end to hostilities drew nearer. As some small indication of the administrative complexity which existed during the war years it may be mentioned in passing that the parent Company alone had control over thirty-six factories and other establishments in the area around London, including such diverse premises as garages, the stands of Chelmsford City football club, Methodist Church rooms, a banana warehouse and rooms in two public houses. Many of these were stores acquired on the wartime dispersed-sites plan and were relinquished as a planned run-down of stored materials took effect, towards the end of the war.
