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  • A clown for Christmas! 01

    A clown for Christmas! Young Scott Barrett clowns around
    with his grandpa, Buntingford Driver Bill Barrett at the
    depot's children's Christmas party on December 8.
    Needless to say, everyone had a good time. More party
    pictures on...

  • Contents Page 01

    Christmas 1973 Equality is the keynote
    at Buntingford
    page 2
    Christmas survival kit
    page 4
    Something prickly growing
    at Brighton
    page 7
    Wine competition
    winners and answers
    page 8

  • Feltham gets an extended birthday gift 01

    Feltham gets an extended birthday gift Feltham began trading with
    an extra 929 square metres
    (10,000 square feet) of sales
    area on November 27 - just
    two days short of its seventh
    birthday. When the store
    opened in 1966 the sales...

  • Food firms gain exemption from power crisis laws and so for JS it's business as usual 01

    Food firms gain exemption from power crisis laws
    and so for JS it's business as usual The worsening economic situation and the various crises which
    are piling the pressure on businesses - the electricity, coal,
    petrol, oil,...

  • More responsibility for managers in area switch-round 01

    More responsibility
    for managers in
    area switch-round Advisory rather than supervisory
    - that's the role of the
    five teams of area specialists
    who officially took up their
    newly created jobs on
    December 3.
    The changing...

  • Equality is the keynote in Buntingford's shiny new restaurant 02

    Equality is the keynote in Buntingford's shiny
    new restaurant A bold step forward is how
    the new staff restaurant at
    Buntingford depot has been
    described. It does away with
    segregated dining rooms so
    now all staff, from...

  • Stratford is the scene of a novel competition prize 02

    Stratford is the scene of a novel competition prize
    The new Stratford branch's
    local newspaper, 'The
    Express', has been encouraging
    its readers to run amok
    in the store and take whatever
    they like from the
    shelves without paying...

  • The man from bacon buying stars in his own TV show 02

    The man from bacon buying stars in his own TV show There's more to being on
    television than meets the eye,
    as 24-year-old Ian Merton
    discovered when he was
    chosen to feature in a BBC
    educational programme in
    the 'A job worth...

  • Development gets a 'priority one' from David 03

    Development gets a
    'priority one' from
    David Minced beef roast and
    'unsupported' lamb chops
    may sound unlikely bedfellows
    but in fact they are
    both projects being progressed
    through a new department
    at the Basingstoke
    depot. The...

  • JS gets in on the act and goes on the air 03

    JS gets in on the act and
    goes on the air 'Right let's take it from the
    top'.
    Radio producer Charmaine
    Slade leans forward on the
    console and looks at the
    actors in the glassed-in
    recording booth while the
    technician starts the...

  • Sainsbury art collection is created for East Anglia University 03

    Sainsbury art collection is created for East Anglia University A priceless art collection
    has been given by Sir Robert
    (Mr RJ) and Lady Sainsbury
    to the University of East
    Anglia together with an endowment
    of £3 million...

  • Jobbo 04

    Just suppose, we mused one day while
    we were pondering the current economic
    situation, just suppose things get worse. No
    petrol. No trains. No going over to Uncle
    Fred and Auntie Win on Boxing Day.
    No food in the shops, power...

  • Puzzles from the past 04

    Two clerks, A and B, are engaged, A
    at a salary commencing at the rate of £100
    a year with a rise of £20 every year, B at
    a salary commencing at the same rate
    of £100 a year with a rise of £5 every
    half-year, in each case...

  • Who told you to wear that then? 04

    MANAGER AND STAFF
    DAILY BULLETIN 299/73
    BRANCH TRADING OFFICE EX 2363
    STAMFORD HOUSE
    Friday 21st December, 1973
    Seasonal Protective Clothing
    White beards and eyebrows will be worn
    during this week's trading. Rhyming
    hygiene poster...

  • What's cooking? 05

    JS Journal helps you get over
    the Christmas beanfeast
    Not as drastic as its name
    might suggest is a prune
    dessert devised by home economist
    23-year-old Clare
    Taylor. Her job is thinking
    up imaginative ways of using
    JS products....

  • Appointments 06

    Appointments
    R Palser, formerly deputy
    manager at Wallington, has
    been appointed manager at
    68 Croydon.
    R Miles, formerly deputy
    manager at Woolwich, has
    been appointed manager at
    Sutton.
    R M Stansfield has been
    appointed section...

  • Badminton imperialists fail to beat the bank 06

    Badminton imperialists fail to beat the bank
    Jolly shuttlecocks! The Bromley badminton team, from the
    left, captain Rick Beazley, Dorothy Paterson, Stuart Letham,
    Dave Norcott, Liz Bennett and Dot Millward, before their
    match...

  • Letters: Did we fail at Bletchley? 06

    Letters: Did we fail at Bletchley? From Mr David Solomon,
    equipment buyer, Clapham.
    A splendid new branch has
    just opened at Bletchley.
    Within three hours of the
    opening, emergency instructions
    were issued to put in an
    additional...

  • Long service 06

    Long service
    Congratulations to the
    following employees on
    on receiving 25 years service
    awards:
    A D Meddings (Rye Lane);
    N Drewell (Kentish Town);
    F Eyre (Streatham); D P
    Hedges (Blackfriars); R C
    Osborne (Basingstoke depot);
    A W...

  • News in brief 06

    News in brief It's Minis and Marinas for
    JS directors on the move
    during the petrol shortage.
    The Rolls and Rovers, say
    their chauffeurs, have been
    'put to rest' at Clapham
    until the crisis is over.
    On the bright side,...

  • Obituary 06

    Obituary
    D Hogan, a clerk in supply
    control at Blackfriars died
    on November 2.

  • Retirements 06

    Retirements
    T Hodgson a senior skilled
    tradesman at Hastings retires
    on December 29 after 44
    years' service. F G Fry works engineer at
    Buntingford depot retired on
    October 31 after 42 years
    service.
    R Gardner reserve manager
    at...

  • Frada's weekly cake helps the hungry 07

    Frada's weekly cake helps the hungry Secretary Frada Toms
    bakes coffee walnut cakes
    to help feed the hungry in
    Ethiopia. But unlike Marie
    Antoinette and her 'let them
    eat cake' answer to the
    needy, Frada sells her cakes
    to...

  • New display system makes meat selection easier 07

    New display system makes meat selection easier A new look in meat display
    will be going into JS branches.
    Known as the 'display by
    cooking method' it is a complete
    change from the present
    system of displaying meats by
    countries of...

  • There's something prickly growing down in Brighton! 07

    There's something prickly growing down in Brighton! If you like plants and have
    a bent for collecting - then be
    warned. Horticultural assistant
    Maureen Holt started
    collecting cacti and now has
    over 1500 specimens at her
    home in...

  • JS Journal wine competition: Winners, limericks and . . . . . the answers 08

    JS Journal wine competition:
    Winners, limericks and Nearly 100 people sent in entries for the JS Journal Christmas
    wine competition, a number which exceeded our expectations
    in view of the difficulty of the competition. Some...

  • Party revellers push the boat out at Ilford, Birmingham and Streatham 08

    Party revellers push the boat out at Ilford, Birmingham and Streatham The thing about parties is that they all look the same. But just
    for the record the pictures above and left were taken at Ilford's
    dance; that below shows what...