'JS Journal', September 1962

Table of content

• £20 Prize
  02

  £20 Prize
  J.S. Journal offers a prize of £20 for the most interesting account
  of the most unusual holiday taken in 1962 by any member of
  the staff. Entries should be about 1,500/2,000 words in length
  and photographs would be...

• Contents Page
  02

  B92
  Page 3
  William Donald
  Page 10
  My Fight with My Lawn
  Page 12
  Minor Miracle
  Page 13
  Hire Purchase
  Page 17
  Top Level Treatment
  Page 18
  Two Views from the Roof
  Page 20
  Fireworks Finale
  Page 25
  Griffin Report
  Page 26
  J.S. Buyers...

• Happy Housewife wins 'Family' Car Quiz
  02

  Happy Housewife wins 'Family' Car Quiz Winner of the two-tone Hillman Minx de Luxe saloon in
  the picture above is Mrs. M. Bown whose answers to the
  questions in the Car Quiz by Family (Summer 1962)
  brought her victory. She...

• William Donald
  03

  William Donald
  Focus on Suppliers Number 5 tells the story of William Donald who sends
  the firm its excellent Scotch beef. We rate it the best beef in the world. William Donald, above, has been sending beef toJ.S. for over
  30...

• My Fight with my Lawn
  10

  My Fight with my Lawn
  In every British breast beats the (often frustrated) heart of a yeoman farmer. Read on for the
  story of J. L. Woods' contribution towards a greener and pleasanter Britain. This spring I felt the time had...

• Minor Miracle
  12

  Minor Miracle
  Passers-by in Romford Road one
  Monday looked into our Forest
  Gate branch, then but a few weeks
  old, and saw two young ladies doing
  their shopping in a mini-car. This,
  as anyone can tell you, is no mean
  feat...

• Hire Purchase
  13

  Getting it on the H.P. is a method of buying most of us have tried out;
  usually without any sort of hitch. We just pay the instalments then one day
  the goods are ours. How many of us took the trouble to count the extra cost
  or...

• Top Level Treatment
  17

  Top Level Treatment Bringing in new equipment to our Factory becomes a
  problem when boxes are too big for our lifts.
  Solution is to hoist them up to 4th floor windows
  using an eighty foot crane with a twenty foot
  fly jib on a...

• Two Views from the Roof
  18

  Two views from the Roof In August, 1955, J. S. Journal published the picture at the foot of these pages. It was taken from our factory roof to show the new properties we had taken
  over about that time. The upper picture was taken...

• Fireworks Finale
  20

  Fireworks Finale
  When the City of London Festival ended it did so with a bang. It would be a good idea, thought the organisers of
  the City of London Festival, to wind up the week's
  festivities with Handel's Music for the Royal...

• Griffin Report
  25

  Griffin Report
  Unfortunately, in the last issue, it was not possible
  to report on tennis owing to lack of space. It was
  pleasing to state that this season, not only has the
  very high standard been maintained, but in...

• Redfin's Good Season
  25

  Redfin's Good Season
  Since the glorious 16th of June when the coarse fishing
  season opened, Redfin Angling Club has been doing
  really well on their mile stretch of the River Beult at
  Linton, near Maidstone. Every weekend...

• J.S. Buyers No. 1
  26

  J.S. Buyers
  Four of our grocery buyers
  open this new series which
  will introduce J.S. people from
  the departments which buy the
  many products we sell.
  Mr. S. T. Eastwood
  buys bread and cakes. He is
  looking at a map of the...

• Guildford Pot
  28

  Guildford Pot
  At Guildford, where our branch is going through
  extensive changes, the builders have had to dig deep.
  Local archaeologists have kept a close eye on
  the excavation searching for relics of the past.
  Most complete...

• Letters
  28

  DEAR SIR,
  I thought you might like to hear about my
  nephew who is age ten.
  Ever since he was a baby he has eaten Lib 2 of
  Sainsbury Sausages every week, for Sun lunch its
  always the same sausages & onions, must be
  Sainsbury,...

• Social and Sports
  29

  "R" are Winners
  The first time
  "R" section
  (Harrow and
  district) entered
  three teams in a
  local Darts league
  their second team
  carried off the
  cup. Seen here are
  members of the
  team, I. to r.:
  Messrs....

• Area Cricket Final 1962
  32

  Area Cricket Final 1962
  This season's Area Cricket Final took place at Dulwich on August 12th,
  when Mr. Dyer's XI played Mr. Knight's XI. The match opened with
  Mr. Knight's Area XI batting, and after a poor start they picked up...

• Movements and Promotions
  33

  Movements and Promotions
  Managers
  R. GUINEY
  L. D. SALTER
  H. HOLBROOK
  T. FLETCHER
  from Upminster to
  Forest Gate
  from Forest Gate to
  40/44 Walthamstow
  from Tottenham to
  Chingford
  fromChingford
  to Tottenham
  Promoted to...

• Mr. S. H. Shipsides, a great tradesman
  33

  Obituary
  Mr. S. H. Shipsides
  Mr. S. H. Shipsides,
  a great tradesman
  Mr. S. H. S h i p s i d e s , one of the firm's six first Area
  Superintendents appointed in 1944, died on July 28th
  at the age of 71, in Edgware...

• Marriage
  34

  Our best wishes to Miss J. Gardner and Mr. R. Tomkinson, both of St. Albans Branch, who were
  married at St. Leonard's Church, Sandrige, on June 23rd.
  Mr. Tomkinson was formerly at our Coventry Branch.

• Obituaries
  34

  Obituaries
  We regret to record the death of the following colleagues
  and send our deepest sympathy to all relatives.
  Miss L. C. Allen, who retired from the position of
  Resident Housekeeper at Amersham in December 1946
  died on...

• Retirements
  34

  Retirements
  We send our best wishes to the
  following colleagues who have just
  retired.
  & i
  Miss F. E. Mailing
  Miss F. E. Mailing, who was originally engaged as
  Despatch Saleswoman in August 1926. She later transferred
  to...

• A Quick Flip in the Time Machine
  35

  It is 1908 in the picture on the left, and the place is
  296, Holloway Road. The pheasants were 4s. 9d. a brace,
  the turkeys 9d. a pound, the fowls sold at 3s. 6d. each
  and Bordeaux pigeons went for a bob a time.
  Gammons sold...

• hi everybody !
  36

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