A PRODUCTIVITY CAMPAIGN 1949 Productivity pays and how.. 290 THIS GIRL needed some 4 years' training THIS GIRL learnt the same job in about 6 months REMARKABLE PRODUCTIVITY STORY FROM SCOTLAND LEADING SCOTTISH FIRM making knitwear has increased productivity by a third by solving the problem of how to train operatives quickly. It used to take four years to train new recruits in manual dexterity for operating machines in a key department; this held back output in the whole firm. After a costly training experiment had failed, the firm's industrial consultants carried out motion studies with the following results:— A new training method enables PRODUCTIVITY —to get those prices down Write for P.