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Electrolux Vacuum Cleaner
Training was a very important part of life when you worked for Eastern Electricity and the establishments at Harold Hill (for engineering apprentice training) then at Essendon in Hertfordshire were well utilised.
Essendon Place, near Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, was bought by Eastern Electricity in 1961 to bring together the various training facilities for office based staff (as opposed to industrial staff) previously developed by the pre-nationalisation undertakings and, following the addition of a new bedroom wing and sales training shop, was opened in 1962.
All new shop staff spent two weeks learning their trade. This didn't just involve the techniques of selling goods, but how they worked, how electricity was generated and distributed and the organisation of the industry.
This is an early 1960s vacuum cleaner (it would not be appropriate to call it a "Hoover") especially put together with see-through panels so that the staff could see how it works. Shop staff training in depth was done away with at privatisation.
The demonstration vacuum cleaner was donated by me to the Science Museum and was still on display in the basement last time I checked a couple of years ago.
Electrolux Vacuum Cleaner
Training was a very important part of life when you worked for Eastern Electricity and the establishments at Harold Hill (for engineering apprentice training) then at Essendon in Hertfordshire were well utilised.
Essendon Place, near Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK, was bought by Eastern Electricity in 1961 to bring together the various training facilities for office based staff (as opposed to industrial staff) previously developed by the pre-nationalisation undertakings and, following the addition of a new bedroom wing and sales training shop, was opened in 1962.
All new shop staff spent two weeks learning their trade. This didn't just involve the techniques of selling goods, but how they worked, how electricity was generated and distributed and the organisation of the industry.
This is an early 1960s vacuum cleaner (it would not be appropriate to call it a "Hoover") especially put together with see-through panels so that the staff could see how it works. Shop staff training in depth was done away with at privatisation.
The demonstration vacuum cleaner was donated by me to the Science Museum and was still on display in the basement last time I checked a couple of years ago.