"You should be there, you should walk through the shop floor. You should be part of it."

I used to moan every time I went to the meeting because they used to read out the figure and they employed about 1500, 1000 on production and 500 staff. And I’d said ‘hang on, hang on, that means every two what’s working, we’ve got one we’ve got to finance’, I said ‘who’s doing nothing.’
_{[Julia, Morlands]}

You had to do the complete job, you weren’t just there observing. You had to muck in, no matter how filthy or horrible it was you had to do it. And you may not believe it but I could use a sewing machine at that time. We had to do everything – get on the sewing machine, cut the leather out and all sorts. We used to do that at college as well, so we were really well immersed in everything.
_{[Tim, Morlands]}

The managing director when I was there, he was quite hands on. You sort of knew who he was, and if you passed him in the corridor, he’d say hello. I didn’t technically work for him, but yeah, he was OK.
_{[Wendy M, Morlands]}

I think that Morlands recruiting during that time was a good system, because as people came in, it was like an apprenticeship. They were using people’s’ abilities in different ways. They were assessing people. And the idea was to move from one department to another, so that you got a feel of all the places and also they could have an understanding of how you would adapt to a piecework job, or an office job, or whatever.
_{[Gerald, Morlands]}

You had your foremen to make sure you were doing what you were supposed to be doing, and not asleep.
_{[Reg, Morlands]}

There was a training officer in Morlands and he used to regularly come around or we’d go and see him. But they were very approachable, you could talk to anybody at any time if you were worried about something. You felt you were actually being looked after and valued as an employee and as a person as well.
_{[Tim, Morlands]}

Scott Stokes visited all departments every Monday. We’d all pressed the red buttons – the machines were stopped. In rushes Roly, sweating, trips on the linoleum floor. He’d ripped the sole from his boot. Scott Stokes took out a huge roll of five pound notes rolled in a rubber band. He gave Roly the rubber band!
_{[Martin, Morlands]}